Children can view internet unrestricted by entering a certain nonsense phrase into Safari address bar
Apple has promised to fix a years-old bug in its parental controls that allows children to bypass restrictions and view adult content online.
The loophole in effect disables the company’s Screen Time parental control system for Safari, allowing children who should be limited to a locked-down version of the web to access to anything they can think of. “As a parent who heavily relies on Screen Time to keep my kids safe and prevent them from staring at a screen all day, I agree that the whole service is super buggy, feels like an afterthought, and there seems to be loopholes around everything,”When it was launched in 2018, Screen Time was sold as doing double duties: helping parents keep tabs on their children’s device usage, and helping adults be more mindful about how they spend their own time.
If you really want kids to spend less time online, make space for them in the real world | Gaby Hinsliffon third-party services that performed the same tasks. The company argued that it was a necessary security approach, since apps that can monitor screen time inherently have the sort of access that can also be used for more nefarious purposes. But Apple was criticised on competition grounds.
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