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[dereksanders]

Iphone se 2

I have the SE3. I finally dumped my 7.

 

[proavia]

I’m an avid user of the Screentime feature. I just wish cell phone carriers gave better control over connectivity. Not only would I like to be able to do content and access restrictions using screen time, but it would also be nice to completely kill their cellular connection with the flick of a web or app button. I’m sure Google and all the other tech companies truly believe in their hearts that a 13 years old is an autonomous and self-directing human being but they only get to make that decision for me and my kids when they actually pay the bills for their care and do their laundry every week. As soon as Mark Zuckerberg sends me a weekly check for the cost of raising my kids and shows up on laundry day to help out with the piles of clothes around the house, then I’ll consider letting him have a say in what they get to do.

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[JoyfulNoise]

We would normally keep my kids off until freshman year of Highschool as the K8 school they were/are at basically bans all devices. If a student takes out a device, it gets taken away and given back to them at the principals office at the end of the day. Smartwatches have to be in clock-only mode - if they play on a watch, it goes to the Principals office for pickup. At the Highschool all devices are pocketed at the classroom door (in sleeves). But because of the new pickup logistics, my 7th grader next year will effectively be at the Highschool so we have to make some changes.

Maybe one of these -

 

[proavia]

If a student takes out a device, it gets taken away and given back to them at the principals office at the end of the day. Smartwatches have to be in clock-only mode - if they play on a watch, it goes to the Principals office for pickup. At the Highschool all devices are pocketed at the classroom door (in sleeves).

As it should be!!
Kids are in school to learn, not play around with their phones/devices all day.

 

[Newdude]

The damage social media does during school far exceeds any value. It used to take all day for embarrassing info to make it's rounds, or you could at least avoid your tormentors here and there. Now the whole school can instantly bully you from afar.

 

[JamesW]

Maybe get them a Ham Radio.

 

[JamesW]

By 2035, everyone will have their own "Mr. Data" Humanoid Type Robot who will be with them at all times.

 

[JamesW]

How about a can and string phone to keep in touch with the kids?

 

[Mdragger88]

My dd was begging for a phone when she was turning 13. She wanted to communicate with her friends & not have to use my phone. So I told her I would come up with a solution.
On her birthday I got her a landline! She was occasionally home alone for short periods & the need was there. She eventually got a phone as a jet setting freshman and then it was my son’s turn to beg but he knew it was no use. Being a simple fellow he then decided he really didn’t want the complications of a cell phone as it occupied all his friend’s time. So He started handing out the landline #.
Apparently it was a running joke of the middle school that you gotta call B on his landline - if he doesn’t answer he’s busy doing stuff

 

[JoyfulNoise]

I’m old enough to remember when I was a kid we only had ONE phone in the house … in the kitchen. But we were a “cool family” and had the extra long 20ft cord with the swivel connector and shoulder rest. So you could talk on the phone while sitting in the chair in the den (room right next to the kitchen). We even had push buttons on our phone!!

Then my brother and I figured out the wiring in the basement panel and ran phone lines to every room in the house. So now we all had phones in our room too!! I remember many time secretly picking up the handset in our room to listen to my sister talking to her boyfriend… I got caught about 50% of the time because I wasn’t quick enough to stop the button from making the clicking noise on pickup. My sister would bang on the wall and if I didn’t get off the phone she’d come to my room and give me a good beating … that lasted until I turned 13 and was about a 1/2” taller and 30lbs heavier … then all she could do is rat me out to our mom. Mom would get the big wooden sauce spoon out and if she caught me sneaking on the phone I’d get swatted … don’t mess with a tiny old Italian mom with the sauce ladle, it won’t end well for you

 

[Saturn94]

I’m old enough to remember when I was a kid we only had ONE phone in the house … in the kitchen. But we were a “cool family” and had the extra long 20ft cord with the swivel connector and shoulder rest. So you could talk on the phone while sitting in the chair in the den (room right next to the kitchen). We even had push buttons on our phone!!

When we lived overseas in the early 70s, we had no phone at all. When we moved back to the US, we had one phone, and it was a party line.

 

[Saturn94]

The damage social media does during school far exceeds any value. It used to take all day for embarrassing info to make it's rounds, or you could at least avoid your tormentors here and there. Now the whole school can instantly bully you from afar.

I doubt I would have survived if we had social media back then like today (I’m not joking).

 

[PoolStored]

When we moved back to the US, we had one phone, and it was a party line.

oooooh, the memories!!! The Kinks, 1965....

 

[AUSpool]

I’m old enough to remember when I was a kid we only had ONE phone in the house … in the kitchen. But we were a “cool family” and had the extra long 20ft cord with the swivel connector and shoulder rest. So you could talk on the phone while sitting in the chair in the den (room right next to the kitchen). We even had push buttons on our phone!!

Then my brother and I figured out the wiring in the basement panel and ran phone lines to every room in the house. So now we all had phones in our room too!! I remember many time secretly picking up the handset in our room to listen to my sister talking to her boyfriend… I got caught about 50% of the time because I wasn’t quick enough to stop the button from making the clicking noise on pickup. My sister would bang on the wall and if I didn’t get off the phone she’d come to my room and give me a good beating … that lasted until I turned 13 and was about a 1/2” taller and 30lbs heavier … then all she could do is rat me out to our mom. Mom would get the big wooden sauce spoon out and if she caught me sneaking on the phone I’d get swatted … don’t mess with a tiny old Italian mom with the sauce ladle, it won’t end well for you

When I was a kid my grandparents had something like this hanging on the wall. It’s probably still there. - I can’t recall ever seeing it being used.

Thats what i get for updating lol

I updated my iPad to 18.2.1

Is it possible to reverse that? I can’t resize any photos, the select function is now just a series of random taps until something happens and my photo collection looks like it’s been reorganised by a drunken sailor.

 

[Mdragger88]

Guess what works?

I have changed nothing!

 

[AUSpool]

Guess what works?

I have changed nothing!

I learned how to resize photos and I can suddenly use the select function. I think my iPad is listening to me. I need a tin foil hat wearing emogi
My photo album remains in the control of the drunken sailor.

 

[Mdragger88]

I learned how to resize photos and I can suddenly use the select function. I think my iPad is listening to me. I need a tin foil hat wearing emogi
My photo album remains in the control of the drunken sailor.

Its my understanding that it can take up to a week for your device to “sort itself out” after an update or even a mass deletion of apps/files so perhaps patience is key. Its why I don’t like doing back to back updates.

 

[phonedave]

I’m old enough to remember when I was a kid we only had ONE phone in the house … in the kitchen. But we were a “cool family” and had the extra long 20ft cord with the swivel connector and shoulder rest. So you could talk on the phone while sitting in the chair in the den (room right next to the kitchen). We even had push buttons on our phone!!

Then my brother and I figured out the wiring in the basement panel and ran phone lines to every room in the house. So now we all had phones in our room too!! I remember many time secretly picking up the handset in our room to listen to my sister talking to her boyfriend… I got caught about 50% of the time because I wasn’t quick enough to stop the button from making the clicking noise on pickup. My sister would bang on the wall and if I didn’t get off the phone she’d come to my room and give me a good beating … that lasted until I turned 13 and was about a 1/2” taller and 30lbs heavier … then all she could do is rat me out to our mom. Mom would get the big wooden sauce spoon out and if she caught me sneaking on the phone I’d get swatted … don’t mess with a tiny old Italian mom with the sauce ladle, it won’t end well for you

My Ex-Wife's father used to work for the phone company as a central office technician and then supervisor. When my ex was old enough, she got her own landline in her room, and her father told her that he had included a time of use feature on the line. The phone only worked between the hours of 6 AM and 9 PM. Many years later she ended up working for the phone company and she was in residential sales. When she was training she asked about the time of use feature, and she got a lot of blank stares. She went and asked her dad about it. Turns out he was disconnecting and reconnecting her phone from the protector in the basement each night at 9 and reconnecting it in the morning before he went to work.

Somebody asked about having the ability to turn off your kids cell phone from yours. The three major carriers all have an app / service that can do that. The issue is it requires a companion app on the kids phone with the proper permissions to make it work. Kids are too good at either disabling the app or using a VPN to get around it. It has been a issue for YEARS. You have to make phones secure so that somebody who should not be able to remote in, cannot. But on the other hand it makes it very difficult to create these types of features. You could do it at a network level, in theory, maybe something like QCI codes (but not QCI codes, that's not what they are for) but they can be a bear to deploy and manage, and I don't think the market is there to justify the cost. They are also not as dynamic, so that it can't be "You didn't take out the trash, no Tik Tok for you today". I haven't tracked the performance of those apps in a dogs age, but they were not the most popular sellers out there (for any of the carriers)

 

[Mdragger88]

@phonedave I just spit out out my coffee reading your story
I had the same “9pm feature” except my dad didn’t need to manually disconnect anything as fear of losing my coveted phone was sufficient!
We use screentime and content restrictions w/ our kids and they don’t attempt to disable it. They understand & mostly appreciate why they are there & why we waited for certain things. They saw their friends become slaves to devices/social media drama and don’t want to be like that.
They can ask for more time for a certain app or a new app or whatever and it is generally a very speedy process to make changes. I have done so with my kid in an entirely different time zone from me. My daughter is 18 now but still in high school so most restrictions are removed except a decent but later bedtime and ask to buy/purchase approval because its tied to my payment form and she said to leave it so she doesn’t accidentally purchase something while playing a game. I made the mistake of putting her birthday as younger for anonymity & thinking it wouldn’t matter & now I can’t change it!
They both have somewhat low high speed data plans and their devices are kicked offline at a certain hour by our modem. The modem thing actually happened because of visiting children who didn’t respond to my “let’s get some rest now” gentle suggestions (even though everyone else was asleep) I guess they were allowed to stay up all night at home & do whatever. This has actually happened multiple times with several different kids. I believe its an epidemic.
At my house we have fun but we also sleep! I am locking it down lol

 

[phonedave]

@phonedave I just spit out out my coffee reading your story
I had the same “9pm feature” except my dad didn’t need to manually disconnect anything as fear of losing my coveted phone was sufficient!
We use screentime and content restrictions w/ our kids and they don’t attempt to disable it. They understand & mostly appreciate why they are there & why we waited for certain things. They saw their friends become slaves to devices/social media drama and don’t want to be like that.
They can ask for more time for a certain app or a new app or whatever and it is generally a very speedy process to make changes. I have done so with my kid in an entirely different time zone from me. My daughter is 18 now but still in high school so most restrictions are removed except a decent but later bedtime and ask to buy/purchase approval because its tied to my payment form and she said to leave it so she doesn’t accidentally purchase something while playing a game. I made the mistake of putting her birthday as younger for anonymity & thinking it wouldn’t matter & now I can’t change it!
They both have somewhat low high speed data plans and their devices are kicked offline at a certain hour by our modem. The modem thing actually happened because of visiting children who didn’t respond to my “let’s get some rest now” gentle suggestions (even though everyone else was asleep) I guess they were allowed to stay up all night at home & do whatever. This has actually happened multiple times with several different kids. I believe its an epidemic.
At my house we have fun but we also sleep! I am locking it down lol

Thankfully mine are just a bit older, so it was not quite so prevalent when they were little. Two are out on their own now (heck, one even works for the phone company herself) and the youngest is in college, so that worked out well.