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27/5/2023 0 Comments

An extra security precaution for your iPhone (and iPad)

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In the Travelling with Technology videos and book, I talk about the topic of security for your iPhone and iPad when you travel, including the importance of being very security conscious about your device passcode when in public - making sure that no-one can see you enter the passcode, and there are no cameras that could be recording you.

If someone has the passcode for your device, they are then able to do some real damage - including changing the password for your Apple account, thereby preventing you from using Find My to look for a lost device and wipe it. If this occurs, you lose control of your iCloud data and put yourself at further risk.

The device passcode also gives access to your passwords stored in the Keychain, accessible from Settings -> Passwords.

And of course it gives access to emails, perhaps banking apps, and so much more.

There are some important steps you can take to make ensure a the protection of your valuable data should you ever be unlucky enough to be the victim of theft of your device.

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19/1/2023 0 Comments

Here's what you need to do when setting up an iPad or iPhone for a child

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It's that time of year again, where so many parents are having to put on their 'IT' hat and set up devices for the upcoming school year.

If the device that you are setting up for your child is an iPad or iPhone, there is a list of things that you need to consider when setting up these devices. 

We have put pen to paper (or fingers to the keyboard) and written up a list to help you. Select the button below to view this checklist.

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2/7/2021 0 Comments

How is my child getting around the Screen Time app limits?

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With the school holidays and children spending lots of time on devices, I have assisted several parents lately with setting up Screen Time for the Apple devices that the children use.

One of these parents contacted me after we had established the Screen Time controls to let me know that her 11yo daughter was somehow circumventing the controls and finding ways of using the Messages app well beyond the time limit that had been set.

Unfortunately, clever kids will always find a way. They are experts at Googling, and will find any online 'hacks' that have been shared. In fact, the most popular article on this iTandCoffee blog is one titled "How your Kids can by-pass the Ask-to-Buy requirement of Family Sharing" - it is read hundreds of times a week, I suspect by more children than adults!

So, how did this child get around the limits that Mum had put in place for the Messages app?

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27/3/2019 0 Comments

Apple has just added a new feature to Screen time

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As many of you will already know, the Screen Time feature introduced with iOS 12 in September 2019 provides some great parental controls for controlling and monitoring a child's use of their iPad and iPhone.

We recently included an article about how App Limits (time limits that you set to restrict how long a child can spend each day on certain apps or categories of apps) can be customised by day of week.
  • How to set different time limits on your child's i-Device based on day of week

With the arrival of iOS 12.2 on March 26, Apple has also added this 'customise by day of week' feature to the Downtime aspect of Screen Time.

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3/3/2019 0 Comments

How to set different time limits on your child's i-Device based on day of week

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In a set of new tutorials on the iTandCoffee website, we show how to set up and use the Screen Time features offered as part of iOS 12, released in Sept 2018.

One of great features of Screen Time that a lot of parents will really appreciate is the ability to set time limits on a child's use of apps, either by category or on individual apps.

One of the questions we get asked so often is whether there is the capability to set these time limits by day of week - so that there can be different rules for weekends and weekdays.

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6/10/2018 0 Comments

Articles on Kids and Technology: Good news for parents whose teens have Android devices plus other tech articles for parents

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With the recent release of Apple's Screen Time for mobile devices, parents were given a suite of great new parental controls to help manage their children's use of these devices - for children up to the age of 18.

If you haven't yet discovered these new features, visit Settings -> Screen time on an iPhone or iPad and explore the great controls that can now be put in place. (We are running information sessions on these great new features - see below for details of the schools we are visiting, and of the sessions that will be run at iTandCoffee.)

While Google launched its equivalent last year - the Family Link App for Android - it seemed to me to fall well short of parent requirements, since it only applied for children under 13 years of age. You could not use it for older children

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15/9/2018 0 Comments

Here's how you can stop your child from changing their device password (and recording their fingerprint on your own)!

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One of the frustrations I hear from parents all the time is that they wish they could stop their child from changing the passcode on the child's iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. 

Not only does it prevent the parent from doing any 'spot checks' of the child's usage of the device, but we regularly deal with situations where the child changes the passcode to keep Mum and Dad out, and then forgets the passcode! This means the device has to be completely wiped, which may result in the loss of photos, app data and more.

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8/9/2018 0 Comments

Now is the time to set up iCloud's 'Family Sharing' for your family - and take back control of the kids' technology

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Many of you will already be aware that Apple's new set of iPhones will be announced this coming week, on Sept 12th. There are already lots of rumours about what these new iPhones will look like - here is just one article about this from The Age this week: Apple's iPhone Xs: What we know about the three new iPhone models expected next week.

Also arriving in the next week or two will be iOS 12, the upgraded operating system for our Apple Mobile devices. 

As has been previously mentioned in this blog, this new version of iOS is going to be a must-have for families with children on i-Devices, as it includes an amazing set of new Parental Controls - known as Screen Time - that will allow parents to take back some control of the devices in their children's lives!

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