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Apple plays strong privacy card in battle with parental control apps, but offers few solutions

It took 12 versions of iOS to finally get parental controls and screen time tracking, but some people still aren’t happy about it. According to a report in The New York Times Saturday, numerous developers of time monitoring apps complained that Apple was limiting features and in extreme cases, straight up shutting down their apps “out of the blue with no warning.”

Out of the 17 most downloaded screen-time and parental control apps, the Times says

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