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Tools for Parents • Chapter 8

Your child will receive an email
notice that this account was added
to another device, which is a good
opportunity to let them know
that you can see anything they
send or receive from their phone.
You can also select which devices
get forwarded any conversations
taking place on the device in these
settings (Figure 8.4).

You might be wondering what
prevents them from going in and
disabling this feature. If you have
a child who seems to be especially
combative on this front, you can
actually disable the ability to Figure 8.4 Setting up text message forwarding.
alter accounts (in the restrictions
menu). This means that they will need the restrictions passcode in order to
make changes to their email, text message, or social media accounts.

Why this is helpful? Any iMessage your child receives means you’ll also
receive and see the entire conversation. If for some reason your child deletes
the conversation from their phone, you will still have a copy of it. Also, with
the ability to make account changes disabled, your child won’t be able to add
or switch accounts (especially if you think he/she has another Apple ID).

For the full set of instructions on how to do this, visit this post: mrhook.it/
imessage.

Other Options for Viewing Text Messages (Dependent on Carrier)

At this point I’ll mention again that actually asking for your child’s phone to
look at their text messages on occasion can be the greatest deterrent to inap-
propriate conversations. However, if you feel, based on your child’s behavior,
that there is still something potentially happening via text messages or social
media, there are more options for you through your cell phone provider.

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