Is There a Way to Limit Screen Time?

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I felt like watching YouTube was very passive of an activity and I would rather he play a video game where he's doing something than just watch YouTube for hours. There is this concept of one more minute. If you're past your time limit on an app or on the iPad in general, if you try to launch an app, it'll show this big white, you know, screen time. And so you can easily have like a half hour of extended iPad time beyond what your parents thought you were able to do because you just keep hitting one word. As far as I know, there's not many like totally egregious ones. Oh, there is one that I wish they would have an option

Pre-show: Please go decline your Tweetbot/Twitterrific refunds!
Follow-up:
- John’s COVID project
- mcg’s Experience with the Sony HT-A9
- Larry King’s band’s Rivian Parody
- “Not yellow” ≠ “no fun colors”
- Adam Wunn on iMazing
- Report on the Apple TV remote with touch disabled
- Bad Apple TV news
- Diabetes and blood glucose monitoring
  - Diabeetus
- Sonos does allow you to shout requests into the air
Criminals are shoulder-surfing passcodes and then swiping iPhones
- Mitigation ideas:
  - Alphanumeric passcodes
    Settings → Face ID & Passcode → Change Passcode → Passcode Options → Custom Alphanumeric Code
  - Don’t use iCloud Keychain for banking passwords
  - Screen Time
    - Settings → Screen Time → Use Screen Time Passcode and don’t use the same passcode
    - Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → Account Changes → Don’t Allow
  - Venmo: Me → Settings → Face ID & PIN → Enable Face ID & PIN
  - Cash: Icon in the upper-right → Privacy & Security → Security Lock
#askatp:
- Is symmetric internet — particularly gigabit — worth it? (via Petar Petrović)
- Do we use AlDente or Battery to manually limit charging levels? (via MaxLaves)
  - Coconut Battery
  - Battery GitHub issue
- Why doesn’t anyone make fun but not-creepy games? (via Brian Hamilton)
Post-show: Marco loses a war of YouTube attrition to Adam