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Why this matters:Articles grouped by age band: children of the same age can be at very different stages; this lens picks what is typical for a band, not what is true for any single child.
By age: 16+ — 31 articles
Articles
- Accounts, age limits and what a birthday changes
- Alternative app distribution in the EU and what it means for Screen Time
- Alternative app stores and what they change
- Consoles and Steam: parental controls across Nintendo, PlayStation, and Steam
- DNS filtering and its limits
- Emergency hotlines
- Encrypted DNS and what parents see
- Factory reset, recovery, and the unhappier bypasses
- Family Sharing: what a child can change, and what you see
- Google account age and what changes on a birthday
- How age checks work — and how well
- Jailbreak on iPhone and what it defeats
- MAC randomisation breaks device rules
- MDM profiles and Apple Configurator for parental control
- Play, AppGallery, sideloading, and where the controls stop
- Reporting illegal content
- Reporting paths: who to contact where
- Reporting: what happens after you tap the button
- Screens and sleep: what is actually established
- Talking about it without turning it into surveillance
- The network layer: router, DNS and their limits
- Video that appears where you did not expect it
- VPN and proxy on a child's device
- What actually works instead of blocking
- What the evidence says about age verification
- What the major guidelines agree on — and where they disagree
- What the network layer cannot do
- When it involves school or other families
- Where to get help — beyond the emergency numbers
- Why Roblox, Discord and YouTube are hard to block
- Why router rules miss the phone