Is there a workaround for Screen Time?

Is there a workaround for Screen Time? Yes, children use three. The clock trick: set the time back and downtime ends. Siri: ask it to read a blocked site aloud. Delete and reinstall: the app comes back without its limits.

SimpleSentinel closes all three. The child's phone keeps network time from the moment it is linked. Under a restricted web mode Siri is switched off on their device. And your child asks before deleting an app; you decide. Everything Apple gives you keeps working alongside.

One price, unlimited children and devices. 7-day free trial, billed by Apple.

The short version

✓ The clock is locked

A child's phone keeps network time from the moment it's linked, so there's no changing the time to end downtime early or skip a chore. Screen Time has no such lock; SimpleSentinel does, on every child's phone, all the time.

✓ Web filtering with a list you control

Allow the web freely, limit adult sites, allow only sites you approve, or block it entirely, with your own allow and block lists. Under a restricted mode SimpleSentinel also switches Siri off on the child's device, closing a commonly overlooked back door to the Web.

✓ Permission to delete an app

Apple's switch for deleting apps is all or nothing. With SimpleSentinel your child asks and you decide.

✓ Everything Apple gives you still works

Screen Time, Ask to Buy, Find My, content ratings: keep using every control Apple already gives you. SimpleSentinel runs on Apple's own Screen Time framework and adds what they leave out. There's nothing to lose, only capabilities to gain.

The feature page: Apple Screen Time alternative.

Pricing

Founding Family (First 1,000 Families)

7-day free trial. Unlimited children and devices.

$9.99/mo

or $99.99/yr

  • About 28 cents/day for every device & child.

  • Your price never goes up as long as you stay subscribed.

Regular Price

7-day free trial. Unlimited children and devices.

$16.99/mo

or $149.99/yr

  • About 41 cents/day for every device & child.

  • Compare to A locked-down phone @ $1,000/yr per child.

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