How To Control Your Child's Iphone

At present, children are more interested in phones than in their books. They have different addictions to mobile phones as they use them every time. Either while having their meal, before bedtime, watching tv, or while at a party, they need to have their cell phone.

Being a parent, you must help to get rid of the mobile addiction of your children. You can try techniques like using parental control and remotely locking your child's iPhone to control their mobile phone usage, and this will help you somehow to keep your child away from the screen.

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Why is it Necessary to Lock Your Child's iPhone?

Phone addiction is not something you want your child to have. But by the time these problems are skyrocketing. The more the use of the phone, the more it hampers the child's physical and mental health. Some of the problems it creates are:

Mental Health Problem

Excessive use of cell phones affects children's and teenagers' mental health. They are more engaged in social media, making trolls on each other and bullying people around them. Facing such kinds of problems can lead to mental health problems among children.

Children are more interested in playing games online like Pub-G, free-fire, call on duty, which makes them addicted to the game and aggressive. Therefore, it is essential to teach your kids about the risks of online gaming.

Not Enough Sleep

Once children start playing games, they become so addicted that they don't want to stop the game. They continue to play till late at night, they start prioritizing online games more than sleep. Slowly, children start to lack sleep, and due to this, they feel tired and lazy. Also, they will not concentrate on study and other essential things in their life. Hence it is true that smartphones affect children's sleep.

Physical Problem

Children most of the time sitting on a comfy sofa or bed with a mobile in their hand. They are in the same position for a long time which can harm their posture. Children prefer mobile phones over going out and playing on the ground.

Getting irritated when you ask to stop using devices is common among children. They lack physical exercise, which makes them physically weak, and they face body pain problems. Kids don't even want to go out for a movie or hang out with their friends.

Thus, it's crucial to lock your kid's phone. You must limit or block some specific apps and features on your child's iPhone. Restricting apps and settings on your kid's ios devices and controlling the screen time will help a lot.

How Can You Remotely Lock Your Child's iPhone?

Apple is coming up with new updates and features in their iPhone and iPad. The new iOS 14 updates in apple devices that parents must know have brought something useful for parents. There is a newly added feature in iPhone, like parental control for parents with iOS updates.

With this update, parents can set screen time, control, and manage their child's phone screen time remotely. Follow the below steps to remotely lock your child's iPhone:

Step 1: Go to Settings.

Step 2: Tap on the Screen Time menu and select it.

Step 3: Click Continue, then two options will be shown either "This is My [Device]" or "This is My Child's [Device]."

Step 4: Select "This is My [Device]" and Click on Use Screen Time Passcode to create a passcode.

Step 5: Re-enter the passcode to confirm. (After the confirmation of the passcode, in iOS 13.4 and later, it will ask you to enter your Apple id and password. This will help you to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget it.)

Step 6: Then go to Settings on your child's phone.

Step 7: Navigate to Screen Time and tap on Use Screen Time Passcode.

Step 8: Enter a passcode that you created on your phone.

Step 9: Re-enter the passcode to confirm. (this locks the setting so kids can't change it back).

Note: Choose a different passcode for your kid's device than your screen unlocks password. Today, kids are more intelligent, so they can easily guess your passcode. This way, you can restrict your kids from using the iPhone all the time as it locks the setting. You can moderate your kid's iPhone remotely after connecting to family sharing and following the above steps.

How to Limit Your Child's Screen Time on iPhone?

It's been tough to get your child off the phone. Statistics have shown that child cell phone usage has tremendously increased. But you have to protect your kid from harming themselves mentally and physically.

Knowingly or unknowingly, you have to check and limit your child's screen time on their Android or IOS device. Like Android, iPhone also allows you to set the screen timer and manage screen time settings.

To limit your child's screen time on iPhone, follow the following steps:

Step 1: Go to Settings.

Step 2: Tap on the Screen Time menu and select it.

Step 3: Click on Downtime, enable it, and it allows you to set a Start and End Time. With this Downtime on, the child can call, text, and use any other apps like a music player that you allow.

Step 4: If you want to turn off messaging and FaceTime during Downtime, go to Screen Time>Always Allowed/Allowed Apps and remove them.

Once you have already connected to Family sharing and protect your child's phone settings with a passcode, then you can manage your kid's iPhone remotely.

How to Change or Turn off the Passcode on Your Child's Device?

You can change or turn off settings on your child's device. To change or turn off the passcode on your child's device,

First, Go to Settings > Screen Time > [your child's name].

Second, tap Change Screen Time Passcode or Turn Off Screen Time Passcode.

Third, it will ask you to authenticate the change with your Apple ID, Face ID, Touch ID, or device passcode.

Finally, it will change or turn off the passcode on your child's phone.

How to Reset the Screen Time Passcode if You Forget it?

No problem if you forget your Screen Time passcode. You can update your device to the latest iOS or iPadOS then reset your passcode. If not, erase it and set it up as new to remove the passcode and choose a new one. Restoring your device from a backup won't remove your passcode.

Conclusion

As a parent, you need to always be one step ahead of your children. You need to keep an eye on your child's device and social media activity to protect your kids from online predators.

Although children are so used to phones, you cannot get them rid of this habit quickly. But always keep an eye on what they are using on their phones, which applications they use for a long time, etc.

Thus, monitoring your child's screen is the best way to keep an eye on them and prevent them from using their phone a lot. Through a new feature update, then you can monitor and lock your child's iPhone remotely if they tend to use it a lot in a day. You can even control and manage screen time; blocked access to adult content prevents iTunes and app store purchases by setting parental control for iPhone.