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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.
Mark this as not resolved. Family allowances doesn't block anything. I have the Wi-Fi well managed to shut off completely on demand. However, the internet still works for the phone via T-Mobile's network. Also, the tethering of said data to downstream PCs that would not work otherwise, because the WI-FI is shut off.
Turning the line off via Family allowances only operates on the calls and texting. The internet access achieved though T-Mobile's network is NOT disabled, despite what they say here and what the buttons & documentation say. Doesn't matter if it is Apple or Android. It shouldn't matter. The data should be stoppable at the T-Mobile server end. Otherwise, the phone user can download a free phone app (Snapchat for example) and continue on as if nothing happened.
It would be better if the phone and text messages still worked, but the Data shutoff did not. At least we can track phone calls and text messages.
Being a single parent, I need to be able to locate and communicate with my teens.
Please stop advertising that the Family allowances provides any kind of useful service.
