I can’t use Apple’s new Screen Time on my daughter’s iPhone because my son won’t update his MacBook

To update to the revamped Screen Time parental controls, each instrumentality successful my household radical indispensable beryllium connected the applicable mentation 27. And that was conscionable the commencement of my struggles. | Screenshot by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

After suffering years of vexation with Apple's parental power features, I've been eagerly anticipating the revamped Screen Time that launched past period with iOS 27. Unfortunately, I can't usage it.

Technically, this is due to the fact that my 18-year-old lad hasn't got circular to updating his MacBook. But mostly, it's due to the fact that Apple's rollout of the caller diagnostic has been confusing and frustrating, with fiddly requirements that mightiness person you digging done drawers for your aged devices.

I'm not adjacent trying to usage Screen Time connected my son's devices. He's 18, distant …

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