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I was just thinking this week about a business that offered MDM-like functionality for parents. My wife and I are strict with screen time limits and content fi
by jonhohle 3y ago
I was just thinking this week about a business that offered MDM-like functionality for parents.
My wife and I are strict with screen time limits and content filtering and have a teenager who likes to see what he can get away with. I have to manage Screen Time, OpenWRT firewall/DNS rules, Xbox limits, Blizzard limits, PlayStation limits.
What I hate most about Screen Time is web content management. It’s so cumbersome and any change causes Safari to shut down on the client to load new settings. There’s also no way to “Always Allow” a website (say things necessary for school), so if you want to have strict limits on time, I have to be ready at a moment’s notice to approve time during whatever random school period requires it.
That being said, we’ve found a solution that mostly works for us in a school setting. It’s better than what schools offered with Chromebooks, which were effectively wide open and didn’t allow any parent restrictions for time or content.
- ec109685 3y agoApple’s App Store rules prevents MDM for parental control apps.