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<i>what would keep the child from simply turning off Do Not Disturb, </i> &nbsp; &lt;-- Nothing. There is no &quot;limited&quot; user on an iPhone. Use a cell plan that has limited minutes and cannot go over without your approval (assuming you own the phone plan).
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what would keep the child from simply turning off Do Not Disturb,   <-- Nothing. There is no "limited" user on an iPhone. Use a cell plan that has limited minutes and cannot go over without your approval (assuming you own the phone plan).

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It’s less how many minutes are used, and more I only want certain people to be able to contact/be contacted by them.
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It’s less how many minutes are used, and more I only want certain people to be able to contact/be contacted by them.

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I do not think you can stop that if the phone is used unsupervised
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I do not think you can stop that if the phone is used unsupervised

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Hi,<br />
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You could look at something like this to provide a low cost, cloud MDM solution to manage the functionality you want to manage?<br />
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<a href="http://www.curbi.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.curbi.com/</a><br />
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Thanks.
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Hi,

You could look at something like this to provide a low cost, cloud MDM solution to manage the functionality you want to manage?

http://www.curbi.com/ [http://www.curbi.com/]

Thanks.

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@RobMobility: Thanks! Asking the company if they support what I need it to, will close the question if they can, otherwise will leave it open for a bit more.
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@RobMobility: Thanks! Asking the company if they support what I need it to, will close the question if they can, otherwise will leave it open for a bit more.

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I will read review before trying any apps.<br />
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The above app is no good from the reviews.
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I will read review before trying any apps.

The above app is no good from the reviews.

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Hello fellow experts!<br />
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I’m looking at getting my kid a phone, but I want to only allow calls or messages from numbers in the contacts.<br />
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I understand I can use the Do Not Disturb feature to accomplish this, but what would keep the child from simply turning off Do Not Disturb, and then placing and receiving calls/messages to/from whoever they want?
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Hello fellow experts!

I’m looking at getting my kid a phone, but I want to only allow calls or messages from numbers in the contacts.

I understand I can use the Do Not Disturb feature to accomplish this, but what would keep the child from simply turning off Do Not Disturb, and then placing and receiving calls/messages to/from whoever they want?

iPhone lockdown

Instant messaging (IM) is a type of online chat that offers real-time text transmission over the Internet. A LAN messenger operates in a similar way over a local area network. More advanced instant messaging can add file transfer, clickable hyperlinks, Voice over IP, or video chat. Non-IM types of chat include multicast transmission, usually referred to as "chat rooms". Depending on the IM protocol, the technical architecture can be peer-to-peer (direct point-to-point transmission) or client-server (a central server retransmits messages from the sender to the communication device).

Chat / IM

The iPhone is a smartphone made by Apple Inc. It and the iPad, along with several other mobile devices from Apple, run on the iOS operating system, which has its own topic, as does the iPad for device-specific questions. Native iOS applications are written in Objective-C or in Swift using the Cocoa Touch frameworks or HTML5 compiled with the help of a package manager such as Adobe PhoneGap; a common IDE is Xcode.