Need to turn off everything on son’s iphone except for call and text. How can I do this? He has figured out how to override Screen Time limits.
Family mode and allowance does not work. Please stop promoting crap features.
Userlevel 7
+15
Doesn’t iMessage require data to send and receive messages as well?
The absolute easiest way to stop the data: Log in to T-Mobile.com, select his line, choose Manage Data and Add-Ons, then change his data feature to “No Data”. You can change this back at any time if you wish.
Hope this helps!
When I try to do this, I get a message that I turn off his cellular data plan, that plan is no longer available and can’t be turned back on. So it sounds like I’d have to switch him to a new plan to do this which sounds complicated.
Userlevel 4
+10
T-Mobile offers a Talk and Text only plan that does not include data at all, but if you have Wi-Fi in the home, he’ll still be able to use it.
Family Mode does allow you to control data usage, but again- access to Wi-Fi means he’ll still be able to get online. There is an additional Family Mode Home Base that you can connect to your router and control his access to the Wi-Fi.
Alternatively, and I’m sure other ISPs offer a similar service, but the Comcast XFinity app allows you to view all devices connected to your home internet gateway and you can *pause* the data to that device, which is much easier than changing the Wi-Fi password.
The absolute easiest way to stop the data: Log in to T-Mobile.com, select his line, choose Manage Data and Add-Ons, then change his data feature to “No Data”. You can change this back at any time if you wish.
Hope this helps!
Userlevel 7
+14
You can try Family Allowances but if he’s that smart he’ll probably figure out a work a round since you can’t shut off the Wifi of the phone.
Easiest way would be to take the phone away and give him a basic phone to use.
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