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Family Allowances seems to be some kind of joke
I'm looking into Family Allowances because I want to restrict my 10yo daughter from using her phone until early hours of the morning. She seems to be addicted. We take it away from her in the eve...
Just so I'm on the same page with you @rglaus, are you looking for something that'll block the devices built-in functions to be blocked? Nuestra Permiso familiar is designed to restrict the phone from using services on the network. Unfortunately, we don't have a feature that we offer if you're trying to block them from accessing the phone's internal features.
Marissa,
Am I reading this correctly in that the app needs to be installed on the controlled phones as well?
That's probably not exactly a "solution" to a lot of these problems as kids are smart enough to uninstall or disable apps if they realize "Oh hey -- that's what's keeping me from getting online!" -- the solution needs to be at the network level.
Routers are now being designed with the ability to turn off devices (or groups of devices) at the network level - no way around it because it's hardware address. I think T-Mobile's solution needs to similar -- where a family can block access at the level where savvy kids cannot uninstall apps. If I'm correct in my assumption that the app is required on the child's device, the workaround is way too easy.
(Yes, there's the additional monitoring parents should do on their kid's phones, so this is a "start", but it's not particularly what I feel [as a parent of only the fur kind of kids] should be the solution T-Mobile would have brought to this request.)
