Six core guides, start to calm.

1. 01Why Apple Screen Time Can't Be Trusted (and What Actually Works)You are not using it wrong. Screen Time is genuinely unreliable, and there is a specific technical reason it keeps failing you.Read this guide →
2. 02I'm a Security Pro. I Tried Bark and Qustodio on iPhone, Here's What I Learned.I paid for the popular parental control apps. On the iPhone they both let me down, and the reason is less about them than about what Apple lets any app do.Read this guide →
3. 03The Thing Apple Doesn't Tell Parents: SupervisionA setting built into every iPhone, the same one schools and companies use, that does the hard-enforcement things Screen Time can't deliver on its own. And it is cheap.Read this guide →
4. 04How to Lock Down Your Teen's iPhone the Right Way (Step by Step)The playbook I wish I had when I started. It took me weeks to figure out. It'll take you an hour or two.Read this guide →
5. 05You've Supervised the Phone. Here's What Screen Time Still Does for You.Supervision is the hard foundation. Screen Time is the day-to-day dashboard, and on a supervised phone it finally works. Here is how the two split the work.Read this guide →
6. 06Handing Your Old iPhone Down to Your Kid (the Safe Way)It feels like it should take twenty minutes. I do this for a living and it still took me three and a half hours. Here is the version that takes an afternoon.Read this guide →

Optional add-ons

Two upgrades for when you're ready

Do these any time after the main lockdown, in another sitting. The first is the one most parents say changed their evenings.

• +The Bedtime Lock: One Tap to Lights-Out, AutomatedThe upgrade that actually changed our evenings: lock the phone at night with one tap, or on a hands-off schedule, using Lost Mode and a free Shortcut.Open this add-on →
• +Add a Real Web Filter: Block Porn, Ads, and Malware with NextDNSComing soonThe optional second layer: DNS-level filtering that blocks and logs porn, ads, and malware across every app, on Wi-Fi and cellular, pushed through your MDM so it sticks.Get notified →