Here's How To Monitor Screen Time On Your Child's iPhone

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Here's How To Monitor Screen Time On Your Child's iPhone

Apple's "Screen Time" monitors how much you use specific apps and your phone in general. It also lets you set limits, so you can curb your Instagram use or resist the urge to use your phone after bedtime or right when you wake up.
It's a much-needed update for a lot of iPhone users and especially anticipated by some parents desperate to set limits on their children's phone or iPad usage. Most experts agree that the most important way to limit screens with kids is to talk to them, not rely on stuff like this, but let's be honest: This is a huge win for parents.
Of course, kids are tiny evil tech geniuses, so within days of Screen Time launching in September, some smart cookies figured out how to "hack" it by deleting and reinstalling apps, which removed the time limits. Screen Time may not be completely watertight, but it's a good starting point and some teens will even welcome it: 54% of 13- to 17-year-olds believe they spend "too much time" on their phones.
First of all, you need an iPhone or iPad, and you're going to need to update to iOS12. Go do that!

There are two ways to set up Screen Time for your kids: remotely on your device or locally on theirs.

Let's talk about how to do it remotely on your phone first, which gives you a little more control and is the method we'd recommend.
In Settings, tap on your name and icon at the very top; that takes you to your iCloud and Apple ID menu. From there, go into "Family Sharing." You can either manage a child account you have already added or add a new Family Member.
If the child has an Apple ID, invite them to join Family Sharing via iMessage. They just have to click on the link from the iMessage to join. Unfortunately, parents can't do this on the sly.
For this step, you have to, you know, talk to your kids and get them to agree and understand that you'll be able to control aspects of their phone. I can't help you with that part — that's on you as their guardian! GOOD LUCK!
("Junior Notopoulos" is my fake account for my fake 10-year-old kid I set up for an article I did about testing out parental controls on the iPhone.)https://www.ttspy.com/the-best-phone-hack-software-for-android-and-...