[throwaway2729]

We've decided to wait till 10th grade to give our kid a smartphone. We might get a dumb phone sooner than that if they need to call us. It's easy to see kids getting addicted to any type of screen - TV, laptops, etc. Having a phone with them all the time seems like a terrible idea.

[ramraj07]

You could easily give them a basic iPhone with full lockdown on every app with just basic communication and internet browsing abilities.. why not that option?

[camhart]

iOS screen time/parental controls are a joke to bypass. To be clear I'm not aruging that parental controls are bad or not worth it--I'm arguing that Apple's built in mechanisms fail far too easily.

https://protectyoungeyes.com/12-ingenious-screen-time-hacks-...

[antonyt]

Why spend a few hundred dollars to turn an iPhone into a $50 phone? Feature phones give you communication and basic (if often painful) internet browsing abilities.