How do I lock my teen iPhone?

Setting up parental controls
  1. Settings > General > Restrictions > On > Enable Restrictions.
  2. Set up a four-digit passcode.
  3. Save it.
  4. Save it somewhere you will find it later.
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Can I lock my child's iPhone remotely?

You can't remotely lock it and even if you could you would leave her no way to use the iPhone. Better off settings up restrictions with a different passcode to control what she can do.
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How do I restrict my teen iPhone?

Go to Settings and tap Screen Time. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions. Choose the settings that you want for each feature or setting under Allowed Store Content.
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How can I instantly lock my kids iPhone?

How to Set Screen Limits on Kid's iPhone?
  1. From the home page of FamiSafe, visit the "Screen Time" option.
  2. Here, you will get an option to set screen time limits or lock the device.
  3. To instantly disable the device, just tap on the "Lock Device" button.
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How do I control my daughters iPhone from mine?

Set up parental controls with Family Sharing on iPhone
  1. Go to Settings > [your name] > Family Sharing > Screen Time.
  2. Tap the name of a child in your family group, tap Turn On Screen Time, then follow the onscreen instructions.
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Can I monitor my child's iPhone from my iPhone?

A Parent/Guardian can monitor Screen Time, adjust Content & Privacy Restrictions, and approve or deny App Store and iTunes purchases for your child's device. To make someone a Parent/Guardian in your Family Sharing group: Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad and go to [Your Name] > Family Sharing.
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How can I see my daughter's text messages on iPhone?

If you use iOS 12 or a more recent version, you can use Apple's cloud message sync feature. By enabling iCloud syncing, you can access all data from your child's device. Make sure to enable message synching so you can read messages from your child's phone.
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Can you lock an iPhone remotely?

Apple has updated MobileMe's Find My iPhone service for iPhone OS 3.1 to include a feature appropriately named Remote Lock. The new feature provides another way to protect data on a lost or stolen iPhone. Remote Lock lets you add a passcode or change your existing one, locking your missing iPhone's screen from afar.
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How do I stop my parents from using my phone at night?

Use your phone at responsible times.
  1. Discuss a phone curfew. Decide on a location that your phone will go at night to be charged. ...
  2. Avoid using your phone when you are at the dinner table, in class, or driving. By understanding these basic phone etiquette rules, you are demonstrating responsibility to your parents.
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Does iPhone have child mode?

That inevitable sequence can be stopped in its tracks thanks to Guided Access, a great new feature brought to iOS in 6.0 that basically functions as “Kid Mode”, whereby any iOS device can be locked into an application with the hardware buttons disabled.
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How can I turn off my child's iPhone at night?

Turn off iPhones
  1. Go to Settings on your kid's phone.
  2. Tap Screen Time.
  3. Tap Use Screen Time Passcode and enter a pass code (this locks the setting so kids can't change it back).
  4. Tap on Downtime, toggle it on, and set a Start and End Time.
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Is there an app to turn off your child's phone?

Google Family Link is a free app that parents can download on their iPhone or Android phone to manage their child's Android phone. Parents can limit how much time their child spends on the phone, schedule the phone to be inaccessible at bedtime, and block their child's access to the phone with one tap.
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How can I monitor my child's text messages without them knowing iPhone?

However, the best way to monitor your child's phone without them knowing is via a parental control app. It will save you the stress of asking their permission to go through their phone or the fight for privacy or no privacy. Parental control apps most run in stealth mode.
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Can my parents see my texts?

No they cannot. Only the time/date, from/to and type are listed. Not the actual contents. They would have to take your phone to read the contents.
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How do I lock my kids screen?

On your child's Android device, from Settings go to Google then Parental controls to link the phone or tablet to the Family Link app on your own device, which lets you configure the apps that can be installed, the times the device can be used, and so on.
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Should parents take away cell phones as a punishment?

Make an appropriate punishment for teenagers.

Make the punishment fit the crime. In other words, don't arbitrarily take away the phone for an unrelated infraction, like missing curfew. If the phone has little to do with the crime, then taking away phones doesn't work.
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How much phone time should a 14 year old have?

For years, the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended no more than two hours of screen time for children and teenagers, and absolutely no screen time for children under 2.
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