Apple Confirms More Problems For iPad, iPhone Users

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iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 had a rocky start to life, with iPhone 14 and 14 Pro users particularly hard hit. Subsequent updates have done much to correct this, but now Apple has confirmed another significant problem impacting all iPad and iPhone owners.

 

Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Apple acknowledged an ongoing bug that affects its Screen Time feature, a parental control tool on iPhones and iPads, which allows children to bypass time limits and access potentially unsafe content without their knowledge.

Screen Time enables parents to remotely manage their child's iPad or iPhone by setting restrictions on device usage during specific times, implementing time limits for apps, and blocking inappropriate content. The bug causes the time limits and content restrictions to reset or fail to synchronize across all devices within a Family Sharing group.

 

Apple previously addressed a Screen Time settings issue in May’s iOS 16.5 update. However, the fix has clearly not worked, and there are numerous reports from parents across forums and social media who are still encountering the problem on iPhones and iPads running the iOS 16.6/iPadOS 16.6 releases and even the iOS 17/iPadOS 17 public betas.

 

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[2baht]

That's ok, I'm not cool enough for an iPhone! 

[Screaming]

4 minutes ago, 2baht said:

That's ok, I'm not cool enough for an iPhone! 

Same here and I'm also not an Apple lemming and cultist.

[dingdongrb]

Many kids these days are so smart (about electronic devices) they can find a 'work around' with most things when parents barely know how to operate a microwave.

[BenStark]

You can't expect a device, at least double the price of the equivalent from another big brand, to work properly. Do you?

[sometimewoodworker]

1 hour ago, BenStark said:

You can't expect a device, at least double the price of the equivalent from another big brand, to work properly. Do you?

Do please provide an example of equivalent devices where they are actually equivalent being half the price of an Apple phone?

 

There are certainly cheap phones with cameras, touchscreens, etc. there are certainly ones that are an almost exact size equivalent. 
 

However the flagship phones that have equivalent specifications from all big brands are priced in the same range as the Apple ones.
 

This is despite the fact that Apple phones get roughly twice the support lifetime in terms of system updates, which makes them twice as valuable. Just read the complaints from Android users who are being forced to upgrade 3~4 year old phones because the banking apps only work on current OS releases and they don’t get the updates.

 

[observer90210]

Long time user of Apple, I have noticed when you get a device with brand new tech, sort of a version 1, it always seems to have hardware issues and flaws. Once it gets to version 2 or 3 of the newly implemented tech, it seems to improve ?

[observer90210]

On 8/7/2023 at 8:09 AM, sometimewoodworker said:

Do please provide an example of equivalent devices where they are actually equivalent being half the price of an Apple phone?

 

There are certainly cheap phones with cameras, touchscreens, etc. there are certainly ones that are an almost exact size equivalent. 
 

However the flagship phones that have equivalent specifications from all big brands are priced in the same range as the Apple ones.
 

This is despite the fact that Apple phones get roughly twice the support lifetime in terms of system updates, which makes them twice as valuable. Just read the complaints from Android users who are being forced to upgrade 3~4 year old phones because the banking apps only work on current OS releases and they don’t get the updates.

 

  With consideration that this comment is in october, for the past weeks, I have noticed a high rate of updates in Apps an iOs. As if there is some sort of panic due to flaws or various security issues. Never have seen so many updates on iOs, except on the other Android Phone of course.

Edited October 27, 2023 by observer90210