my experience so far as a 14 year old with controls for everything
For my whole life, I've always had parental controls. From when I first got my ipad at 6 to me now having them on my air hockey table (believe it or not)
First want to say I have African parents, so using bypasses or exploits would get me beat by my dad because he checks every day
Additionaly my dad works at Morgan stanley and uses spreadsheets and documents a lot and I've seen him work so I'd say he's pretty tech savvy (less than me though)
So yeah I've had controls my whole life on every device even on my TV. My dad had a nest home app on his phone that has set times for when the TV turns off and on and can turn it off whenever he wants
Especially during covid it was especially annoying because everyone played games during class during lockdown not really listening to the teachers and stuff, but with my controls, all I could do is like play this game in 3rd grade I used to grind called prodigy math game.
Obviously I can't play games on weekdays and for weekends I would get about 1 hour of gaming per day on my laptop when that was all I had across everything. He used this thing that would say privacy error for website that were flagged on the app he was using in that genre so thing like YouTube and steam and games sites in general were all blocked by default, even on weekends.
My Nintendo switch too also has parental controls, however sometimes if I was on a game run on a game, I would ask my dad to put the code in for screen time and he would give me an additional amount of time (usually 10 minutes.)
When he puts In the code the code, he always tells me to turn around but once I caught him putting in the first 2 digits before telling me to turn.
Then one night I was playing this game and my limit came, but using the first 2 digits and guessing the last 2, I got the password. (the code was like 71__.) Unfortunately he got a alert and fixed it next day but I got bored of the switch anyway.
One time I asked my mom to check my grades on her phone , but I got curios and downloaded family link for her and told her about it.
She wasn't really listening and told me to delete it because she wants dad to handle all that stuff, but I never did and she never realized.
Then I realized that she has the same abilities as my dad for family link because they have connected parent accounts.( This works for her laptop too but I don't know the password).
The thing is, I don't overdo it. Maybe if theres a app I want and something I want unblocked, I'll change it using the grades excuse. But my sister uses my mom laptop for her tutoring because she doesn't have one herself, and she found out about it too. For the past 2 years my dad always gets pissed because she's younger and overdoses on it and makes obvious changes that my dad can see and change. He's tried everything too "fix" this issue even going as far as too switch phone and factory reset. But as long as she had that email and my mom's phone and computer, nothing will change.
My dad gets especially pissed when she uses it late at night and early in the morning on school weeks. I'm being so deadass when I say this, earlier this year on my dad birthday he walked into her room in the morning saw her on her iPad watching something and went into a rage and broke that iPad into pieces. DM me for a clip of the damage.
Additionaly, with my school computer, we get to take our home and to school everyday, in school, teacher and administration uses go guardian and allat stuff, but once you get home, they don't care what you do (unless your parents report because my friend got YouTube blocked permanently for him due to his parents).
In 6 grade it was chill because I could watch YouTube all night long, but starting last year, he added this restriction that restricts my Wi-Fi at a certain time of the day from me and my sisters school computers
When it happens I use my hotspot, but he caught tonto that too, I don't want him to restrict my 5g service so I just downloaded YouTube video on my Chromebook.
And now it's the summer. I'm 6 foot and look like a man so it's just crazy how someone like me can't even watch tiktoks (blocked tiktok and if instantly when I got my phone) also a d2 athlete
What could help is if there a way where I can control family link directly from my phone but not to bypass or disable it. Controlling it would be better. my dad checks every day and would 120% notice if Its disabled because he not one of them parents who put restrictions and leaves it is it is like others.
My dad always tell me I don't have to use all my time that I'm given and I could always have spare but idk... with downtime if you don't use your daily limit it feels as if youve wasted screen time.
I'm making this right now on my downtime from my phone because sometimes I get this glitch where it doesn't kick me out of the app I'm on before downtime started and I can use it for the usage given to me outside in regular daily limit time
I love my dad but he be doing too much. I'm going to my sophomore year also
(Sorry for my literacy I'm typing late on my phone trying to get this through.)