Apple's efforts to make their devices work to parent's advantage with built in Parental Controls
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Match iPhone Parental Control Features With Your Parenting Style

There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to setting up your iPhone The best approach depends on your parenting style and what you’re trying to achieve. If you’re looking to limit screen time, for example, you might want to consider using the Screen Time feature in iOS 12. This lets you…

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The New Kindle Fire: The First Tablet to Get it Right and Offer Full Parental Controls?

The new Kindle Fire HD has broken the mold by being the only tablet to finally offer parental controls over what their kids access. While parents go to great lengths to control their child’s TV and PC usage, the tablets have managed to slip by the radar, allowing children unhindered access to the very same things that parents have kept them from on other devices. And at only $199, this kid-friendly tablet has quite an attractive pricetag.

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How to Apply Parental Controls to Restrict Web Access, Calls and Texts on Your Child’s T-Mobile Cell Phone

If you are wanting or needing to give your child a cell phone, but want to be able to apply parental controls to restrict access, or even to make their access fully restricted access with them being able to call just a few numbers that you designate, then here is how to do it with T-Mobile. It is important that you understand these steps, and that you both a) don’t let Tmobile tell you that it can’t be done, and (equally important), b) don’t believe T-Mobile when they tell you that it has been done. You will need to do it – or at least check that T-Mobile has really done it – yourself. Here is how to lock down your child’s cell phone account and access, and apply full parental controls, so that they have no Internet access, and can only call and text to pre-approved numbers.