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I don't think many people really use parental controls on Android or iOS. Its a feature thats there to make consumers feel safer, but anyone that tries to actually use it is going to quickly give up.

Small example: On iOS 'Screen Time' you can restrict websites to a whitelist, which seems useful. But so many things break if you do that - all kinds of login screens for different apps - and you dont get given clues to as to what urls need to be whitelisted to un-break things.

Sometimes with modern tech you're using a feature and you think "this is incredibly complicated and broken, there can't be many people actually using this" and I tend to get that feeling with parental controls.



Most the parents that I know with kids do use iOS Screen Time. And yes, it's super frustrating.




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