{"id":3017,"date":"2026-06-09T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/apples-screen-time-updates-are-too-little-too-late\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T03:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:41:00","slug":"apples-screen-time-updates-are-too-little-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/apples-screen-time-updates-are-too-little-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Screen Time updates are too little, too late"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"Ask to Browse is one of the new features coming to Screen Time. | Screenshot The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Screenshot The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Screentime-2.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tAsk to Browse is one of the new features coming to Screen Time. | Screenshot The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Apple spending a big chunk of its WWDC keynote on parental controls was surprising for several reasons. But the biggest is that, despite all the airtime, it didn&rsquo;t announce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/945898\/apple-parental-controls-child-accounts-wwdc2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much new beyond a redesigned interface<\/a>. Almost all the features touted already exist or are upgrades to current options. Why Apple chose to do this isn&rsquo;t a mystery. You can trace the threads from the recent landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/900654\/meta-google-instagram-youtube-social-media-addiction-trial-kgm-jury-decision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media trials against Meta and Google<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/945813\/apple-wwdc-protesters-deepfake-nude-apps-ultraviolet-heat-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protesters outside the Cupertino HQ<\/a> today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/946331\/apple-parental-controls-child-accounts-wwdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple is trying to show the world it&rsquo;s being responsible<\/a> when it comes to your children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Only it&rsquo;s really not. Screen Time sucks. As a mother of two whose children h \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/946446\/apples-screen-time-updates-are-too-little-too-late\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask to Browse is one of the new features coming to Screen Time. | Screenshot The Verge Apple spending a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}