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Watch with Family Setup, Apple's take on GPS tracking smartwatches for kids, has features like Schooltime mode while offering strong privacy, but is very costly

The Verge Dan Seifert

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  • @dcseifert Dan Seifert on x
    I've been testing Family Setup with an Apple Watch strapped to my kid's wrist for nearly a month. Here's what I learned and my take on it all: https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
  • @edgar_a_bitch @edgar_a_bitch on x
    I got in the habit of turning off my location on my phone as a young adult because I didn't know if my parents would figure out how to track it. They were super keen to fit a black box to my car but I managed to dodge that one with desperate application of mildly spurious logic h…
  • @backlon Dieter Bohn on x
    Here is an in depth look at Family Setup on the Apple Watch from ⁦@dcseifert⁩. There are a lot of details here! Seems like Apple has more work to do to make watchOS do this kid watch job, though. https://www.theverge.com/...
  • @ow Owen Williams on x
    I say this as someone who isn't a parent yet, but the idea of putting a GPS tracker (let alone an Apple Watch) on a child is really creepy to me https://www.theverge.com/...
  • @verge @verge on x
    An Apple Watch with Family Setup is an expensive electronic child leash https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...