I think more people should set up their iPhone using Apple Configurator, a Mac app used to control apples mdm solution. You do have to factory reset your phone for this once, but after that you have extremely granular control over what you can and can’t do. It’s much more powerful than the parental controls system and much harder to circumvent.

I use it to straight up disallow a bunch of apps and websites (tiktok, Reddit, YouTube, etc.)

For a while I even uninstalled safari which you can just do with this. Not having a browser at all on your phone is a neat experiment and really changed how I interact with tech on the go.

I did eventually install safari back, but overall I prefer the Apple Configurator setup a lot over any of these kinds of apps.

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halapro an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Not having a browser at all on your phone

I would not last 5 minutes.

I'm occasionally offline outside planes and the amount of times I pull out my phone to "google something really quick" is high.

You can already disallow apps without an MDM, but I'm curious what else you can do with it. I generally uninstall apps like Instagram so it takes a minute to even download it again, but it gives me a way to download it, post something and delete it once a week or so.

	▲	garyfirestorm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I found an incredibly simple solution for this. Screen time in iOS can block specific websites and apps installed on your device. Set harmless time limits - 5 min for instagram. 2 mins for Reddit.com etc. Ask your spouse or a friend you trust to set screen time passcode. You can’t bypass it and you’re not going cold turkey either or losing an important utility like Safari. Doom scroll all you want in 2 mins then it’s locked for the day. I have succeeded and it’s been 3+ months.

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tripdout 21 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Does that website blocking work for browsers other than Safari?