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minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI can actually imagine this being pretty useful on phones so you can give a kid a phone but prevent it from installing certain software (from normal sources)
minus-squaregnuthing [they/them]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoMy kid has a phone, their user doesn’t have app installation permissions at all and app store is hidden
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·19 hours agoYou can already require a pin to download anything off the store.
I can actually imagine this being pretty useful on phones so you can give a kid a phone but prevent it from installing certain software (from normal sources)
My kid has a phone, their user doesn’t have app installation permissions at all and app store is hidden
You can already require a pin to download anything off the store.