Turning off Personal Hotspot on a chlid's device using Screentime

Fantastic summary G-W. Unless there is some technological problem or "proprietary law" regarding Hotspots, I can't understand why Apple would not allow a way to disable the Hotspot function.

It bypasses the Downtime function in Screentime, making this App non-functional in practice.

Apple - please create a way to disable Hotspot on iPhone!

Jeff

Apple can do so many amazing things with technology, but they can’t take simple steps to protect our kids. I don’t plan to buy any more Apple devices. I’ve had an incredibly stressful time limiting my son on his iPhone. My other kids will never have Apple products and won’t get smartphones until they’re at least 16.

This is a huge issue for my kids too. This is a big safety issue and it’s so disappointing as an Apple ‘family’

It’s so hard to parent and manage their devices, when people try to do all the right things, be on top of safely and use all the parental control featured.

this major flaw allows my kid to use his hotspot for his gaming console when I have downtime on and also the wifi for the house turned off at certain times (he could use it for a large number of problematic things if he was so inclined, the hotspot may be completely unfiltered internet access, I’m not sure

kids need massive breaks from screens and internet. And no we don’t want to have an unpleasant altercation with our children to ‘confiscate’ their devices.

mine are allowed to use Apple Music to help them sleep (that’s one of the always allowed apps for mine) and certain other safe apps.

I don’t want to take their devices completely away on a regular basis.

Contact your carrier and have that feature removed from that line. The personal hotspot is a carrier feature.

This is a feature that is absolutely needed. What point is there in offering screen time parental controls if they don’t offer ways like freezing their hotspot access at downtime as a way to make sure we can evolve our necessary oversights as kids evolve in their tech know how? That said, I do wonder if this particular issue has something to do with the fact that hotspots exist in direct connection with each individual carrier. Is it possible that it’s not even something that Apple can offer?

This is so important and seems like it should be an easy fix. Screen time and other parental controls are practically worthless if kids are able to get around them by utilizing their phones hotspot. It’s impossible to turn this off. I have called my carrier and they promised it was being fixed but it didn’t work. Please, Apple…