Eight-Year-Old Discovers iPhone Screen Time Workaround To Watch More YouTube (inputmag.com) 35
An anonymous reader shares a report: Just when you think you've seen everything: an eight-year-old has discovered a way to watch YouTube past Apple's Screen Time limits by using the iMessage App Store. Redditor Jsmith4523 noticed that his sister was still watching YouTube, despite having used her allotted daily time on the app. It turns out she'd developed a pretty simple trick to keep browsing videos: just access YouTube through the iMessage App Store.
That's funny. (Score:2)
This is a DMCA violation. (Score:2, Funny)
I shall be reporting this to Tim Apple so the Cupertino Computer Cops can deal severely with this miscreant post haste.
Apple (Score:2, Flamebait)
Oh, I've been using this for months as well (Score:2, Funny)
But I was using it because I can't figure out a way to have my stickers excluded from the screen time restrictions. I often want to send a sticker or something to my partner when it's a bit late.
Now this 8-year-old has ruined it for all of us. :(
To be fair (Score:4, Funny)
He was *eight* years old. It's not as if a six-year-old figured it out.
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Eight years old *and* a girl? Well that explains it right there.Why is this even news?
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Wow some mod is being really touchy.
Alternate (Score:1)
*SHE* was eight years old. It's not as if a boy could have figured it out...
Oh, boys also figured it out. They just weren't dumb enough to let anyone see that they had.
Ian told us.... (Score:5, Funny)
Not new (Score:3)
Techno-authoritarian helicopter parents have been unintentionally raising Gen.Y/Z uber-hackers for a while now.
Re:Not new (Score:5, Insightful)
I dunno, all the gen Y/Z kids I know navigate through social network sites like it's a second home, but they don't seem to know a damn thing about how any of this technology works. They're like how most people are with cars: they can use them, but don't ask them how the thing works.
When I was growing up (Millennial) everyone in my parent's generation would talk about how we're all going to be computer geniuses because we grew up with the things. But I think—as a generation—the Gen X crowd tends to be the most tech savvy because they grew up with these technologies when they were relatively immature. It's sort of like how people of the Greatest Generation tended to know a thing or two about cars, because you had to in order to own one. They weren't as reliable and it wasn't uncommon to get stuck on the side of the road. My grandfather wasn't a mechanic and he was interested in driving more than wrenching, but he knew the basic components of a car and how to fix basic things.
Basically, when a technology is mature, there are fewer amateurs who can tinker with it. A large disparity forms between experts (who work on the technology professionally) and users (who just experience the technology from a functional perspective).
[Staying true to form, I went overboard with a car analogy.]
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As a Gen Xer, I'd disagree. Based on helping my friends and family my age with their computer problems, my generation was/is just as clueless about computers as yours. It's j
Why Bother Setting Limits? (Score:5, Insightful)
Kids are too damn clever and will become tinkers in their own right to get past block.
Either give them the device unencumbered or do the prudent thing and NOT let a fucking 8 year old have a bloody iPhone.
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Or just give them the locked down device and subtly encourage them to get around it.
All six year olds are upset. (Score:2)
Meanwhile the four year olds quietly decide they will no longer let the six year olds in to their secrets.
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How can she be so dumb? Why didn't she stop using the hack when someone is looking? How long can this go on? We six year olds keep finding work arounds and dumb eight year olds leaking it out!
Meanwhile the four year olds quietly decide they will no longer let the six year olds in to their secrets.
Your complaint has been forwarded to the office of Boss Baby. The response may be delayed due to a previously scheduled bath appointment followed by nap time.
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A temper tantrum can take a toll on your productivity when working from home though, and sounds terrible when you're trying to present something . . .
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Have fun working from home while your child is screaming and crying.
When I was a kid my parents would have just beat me. That is no longer an acceptable option. Now days parents have to exercise patients and choose their battles carefully.
Saying no shifts the costs elsewhere, not free (Score:4, Interesting)
We took our son's phone away completely last January after his grades dived and he got involved in some online drama.
It was surprisingly easy, but the externalities were harder to manage. Now we have to manage/be available for him to make calls, as we don't have a land line anymore (his number is actually our old land line number we ported to flip phone years ago).
He has been suffering socially since he can't organize social activities the normal way. This is actually worse than it sounds, as the majority of kids have phones, and at age 15 you can't manage a kid's social life.
Any of the "amazing" benefits of a sudden new interest in analog activities have yet to appear.
I'm mostly convinced Apple really has zero interest in parental control over teen phone usage, it's mostly a charade. If they did find a way for parents to much more effectively control phone use, they would face a ton of push back from app store vendors and advertisers. Total phone addiction is Apple's business model.
punishment (Score:2)
The original policy still stands even if you circumvent it. If the parents' rule is you get X amount of time per day, it's not up to some application to enforce the policy. It's up to the child to obey the policy, or lose privileges as a consequence. The app just makes it *easier* to obey, and circumventing makes it more difficult for a child to keep track if they are in compliance or not.
I don't really care if kids try to figure out creative ways to use software. If I give my kid 2 hours of screen time a d
Lots of holes (Score:2)
Ok, who ratted the kid out? (Score:1)
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Already been done (Score:1)
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Apple security (Score:2)
Apple security, an oxymoron.
Categories need work (Score:3)
Store? (Score:2)
so, there is an 'app store' in imessage? my my, how far have we come...
i'm sure it's progress and i'm officially an old fart.
CFAA (Score:2)
The eight year old hacker is now facing charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse act for exceeding authorized access on her device. /s