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Parenting: Can you disable an iPhone remotely? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by snakeplkn@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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My teenage daughter with special needs recently got an iPhone. I have set parental controls to limit apps at 9 pm. However sometimes she is on the phone instead of homework in the afternoons. I can take the phone from her, but this can be a triggering event. Is there an app or setting that would allow me to lock/unlock the phone remotely or cut off access to the cell tower? With her WiFi TV, I use Gryphon to turn off the Internet, but with her iPhone she can use AT&T's mobile data.

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[–] BackItUpWithLinks@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

If taking the phone will cause a “triggering event” then disabling the phone is going to as well.

Time to be a parent and require her to relinquish the phone at 9pm. It’ll be tough at first.