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Family Allowances seems to be some kind of joke
I'm looking into Family Allowances because I want to restrict my 10yo daughter from using her phone until early hours of the morning. She seems to be addicted. We take it away from her in the eve...
Just so I'm on the same page with you @rglaus, are you looking for something that'll block the devices built-in functions to be blocked? Our Family Allowances is designed to restrict the phone from using services on the network. Unfortunately, we don't have a feature that we offer if you're trying to block them from accessing the phone's internal features.
It's 2025 and T-Mobile still doesn't have the ability to allow parents to restrict phone usage by set hours: For Example. I don't want my son using his phone from 9am-2pm Mon-Fri-- which are school hours. The T Mobile Family mode app only allows you to set usage limits- i.e. 2 hrs, 3 hrs, etc. This parental control is completely useless.
Verizon has had this feature for over 10yrs!! When will T-mobile have this ability? If not soon, I'll just back to Verizon.
I had this same concern with my child in wanting to block certain hours of the day. Try looking into Googles Family Link App & see if this will help meet your needs.
