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Necara

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May 11, 2022 10:46 PM in response to marshallweil

Agreed: this is the safety feature that is beyond needed. Thankfully my child took screenshots of text messages that she received from someone claiming to be “grand master” and the subsequent conversation that I found on her phone (she had taken the screenshots to send to a friend ) because she had deleted the texts. It is not okay that children can be having these conversations and then deleting them so parents cannot monitor them.

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Mar 21, 2022 11:01 AM in response to The_Apple_Gapple

There are MANY reasons besides dealing drugs that having an eye on the conversations would be a helpful parenting tool. As kids are learning how to behave in the world and communicate with others, knowing the types of conversations they are having is super important. In my opinion, that is part of our job as a parent. It is not responsible to hand a phone to a child without teaching them how to use it appropriately.

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Jun 5, 2022 11:38 AM in response to The_Apple_Gapple

This is a tactic that sexual predators use. They’ll send photos and texts and things that can be used as evidence and tell the groomed minor to delete them.

then you have school shooters, cyber bullying—There’s a lot of literal physical safety issues that warrant the keeping of receipts.

we’re also not talking about 17 year olds exclusively. Kids as young as 10 for necessary reasons may have cellphones. That is like a portal into madness when kids don’t have the developmental capacity to gauge this type of safety. It’s not as cut and dried as looking both ways when crossing a street.

i actually have no desire to read my kids texts actively, 99% of the time it’s inane and kids are entitled to have a level of privacy commensurate with age, but I do need to keep them safe and making just so that they can’t delete their texts in the event there is a suspected problem.

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Dec 14, 2021 6:57 PM in response to Axel Foley

Thanks for your reply (even if it wasn’t what I was hoping for). Is there a way to submit feedback and a request to Apple? As I’m sure I’m not the only parent concerned about the content of their teen’s text messages.

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