Parents' smartphone restrictions, children who easily break through --WSJ

Lance Walker (43), a real estate broker living in Coloradado, has been around for three years, over the use of Apple's "iPhone" and "iPad (Eyipad)".) It is unfolding.

Initially, Walker thought that Paiton used the short video application "Tiktok" that Paiton used to watch the dance videos was a harmless distribution.However, after his daughter released a video of a playful pose, he learned that a message was arrived from several strangers, and immediately opened the setting screen of a parent's restricted function (parental control)., I blocked the use of the ticktock.Paton has downloaded a new app, including a Ticktock, using another Apple ID as a countermeasure.

When his father Walker tried to delete his Apple ID, Paiton changed his password and stopped his father.This continued for months, and even if Walker tried to block a specific app using Apple's "screen time" restriction function, her daughter would every time.

"It was like a nightmare," Walker says.He is still looking for a reliable way to keep Paton away from Ticktock with his wife.

Apple and Alphabet, who provide major mobile software (OS), and Google under the umbrella, have advertised parental controls as a parent monitoring to use children's technology.However, children who are familiar with technology have avoided monitoring means to protect their children as their online viewing time has increased rapidly due to the new colon virus.

Parents say that this monitoring method is not so easy and that there are too many omissions.Individual apps such as YouTube, Instagram, and Ticktock also have their own restriction functions, further complicing their parents' online activities.In addition to these functions, paid monitoring services can be used."BARK", which monitors the behavior of children on a specific app, and "Circle", which filters the use of apps and sets time restrictions.But these services are also limited.

"The Company promises a powerful tool to manage the iOS device (which is an Apple OS), and is constantly making efforts to improve it," said Apple's spokeswoman.

Google refrained from commenting.Ticktock, operated by the Beijing Character Nedge Scrap Science (byte Dance), has commented, but has listed some of the protection functions provided by the company.For example, if a Ticktock user sets his own account private, it can restrict those who watch content or send messages.Also, after Walker's case was found, Ticktock added functions to parental control.For example, a function in which parents link their children's account to their account.

Parents and experts have said that Apple's "screen time" provides a solution, but the settings are complicated, and inadvertently making mistakes can give permission to use the service that should be restricted.

"I've been involved in technology for a long time and understand the product quite well, but still incredibly crazy."Tim Kendal, a former president of Pintalest, who has been running a screen time management app, is said to do so.

It is said that touching the screen without restrictions and being exposed to suspicious content will lead to mental health issues for children.In September, Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that the parent company's Facebook had recognized the possibility that Instagram was harmful to many young users (especially teenagers).Currently, Facebook, which has been renamed Meta Platforms, has opposed the survey.

After the WSJ's report, Adam Moseri, the top of Instagram at the Senate this month, promoted an Instagram to launch a version for children with parental control.

Social media app ticktock, Instagram, YouTube, etc. are a number of parental controls and safety, before the introduction of new regulations in the UK that IT companies will provide products that take into account child safety in the UK this summer.Announced a secure tool.

Apple has not updated a major update since launching a screen time as part of iOS12 in 2018.The iPhone is overwhelmingly preferred for teenage young people in the United States, and the update of screen time has an extraordinary meaning.A survey of 10,000 teenage young people this fall said that about 87 % of US financial service companies, Piper Sandler, have owned the iPhone.

Many online safety promotion organizations have suggested Apple for some amendments to support their parents.One is that parents can set the message function "IMESSAGE" between Apple terminals so that they do not delete the text.The other is that when a user enters a birthday when the terminal is set, the default setting of safety according to age will be launched.

On the other hand, no matter what countermeasures the companies take, the child continues to develop a way to pull out the parent's tech skills.Starting with basic passcode spies (parents can secretly operate screen recording software before entering security code), even the extreme methods such as resetting the factory (returning all screen time settings to blank paper)A wide variety.

In some cases, parents considered their solution on their own.

Stephanie Payet, a Virginia state qualified as a clinical social worker, was able to see his daughter's Apple ID into his own laptop and see the text message later deleted by her daughter.This played a decisive role when her daughter was bullying online by exchanging text messages in the group.Many of the children involved have already deleted messages, but because the portray had a copy, parents and school managers deal with this case (there was also a physical intimidation against the daughter's daughter).I was able to do it.

"This is a full -time job. I don't have time to do another full -time job," says Pay.