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Parental Controls
Apr. 20th, 2022 10:21 pmWhy do parental controls suck so much? Whyyyyyyy?
I'm trying to get ebooks set up for Will. First hurdle--for the Apple parental controls to work between his iPad and my iPhone both devices have to be on exactly the same version of iOS. This is at least a known problem for me now--as opposed to the two days it took me to figure it out 18 months ago. I update my phone. I get the Libby app and the Kindle app installed on the iPad. I discover that you can't access Amazon's kid profiles in the iPad app. You can download Amazon Kids+ if you're willing to pay, but that can't access the library ebooks. I know from trying to have him use my Kindle that the Amazon Kids+ interface is a complete disaster anyway and still requires me to log myself in to the Kindle. For now, we've gone with logging him in as me, which isn't ideal. We're definitely going with "hope he doesn't try to read the romance novels" and "rip my recommendations". I just want an account for him that has access to my Prime and Kindle Unlimited and works with the rest of the Kindle infrastructure and doesn't have access to all of Mark's and my books. Why is this so difficult?
I'm trying to get ebooks set up for Will. First hurdle--for the Apple parental controls to work between his iPad and my iPhone both devices have to be on exactly the same version of iOS. This is at least a known problem for me now--as opposed to the two days it took me to figure it out 18 months ago. I update my phone. I get the Libby app and the Kindle app installed on the iPad. I discover that you can't access Amazon's kid profiles in the iPad app. You can download Amazon Kids+ if you're willing to pay, but that can't access the library ebooks. I know from trying to have him use my Kindle that the Amazon Kids+ interface is a complete disaster anyway and still requires me to log myself in to the Kindle. For now, we've gone with logging him in as me, which isn't ideal. We're definitely going with "hope he doesn't try to read the romance novels" and "rip my recommendations". I just want an account for him that has access to my Prime and Kindle Unlimited and works with the rest of the Kindle infrastructure and doesn't have access to all of Mark's and my books. Why is this so difficult?
