Lock Mode for Gabb Phone
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This feature is a MUST! The feature needs to shut down calling and texting at a time set by the parent. If you could just have the phone locked at the time set and the child cannot use any of the features until the parental control is shut off that would be great!
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This is frustrating! I just signed up for a new contract & assumed this was a feature for the phone as well. This is shocking for GABB to not have on their phones for kids.
Features needed: Ability to set times throughout the day for no phone access: school time, bedtime & to be able to limit total amount of time on phone for the day. No parent wants to worry about having to round up phones every night.
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My 2nd comment on this thread - I don’t see this feature happening in the next month so our first month will be our last on the Gabb phone. The web site shows “focus mode” but does not indicate that it only exists for the watch. We have one of the other phones & had used it successfully - other than a safe music streaming service. Well what good is a music service if I just had to go into his room & tell him to turn off the music at 1am. I am sure Gabb will reply with how I should have a basket & collect his phone at night. Well, get some real parental controls on your phone - please. Look at all these posts. No one can be happy with no ability to lock down.
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Hello all!
Thank you for your continual feedback on this post. We thank you for adding your voice to this highly requested feature idea. We are thankful to each comment and vote as it has shown us the need and desire for this feature. We're always exploring new ways to enhance your experience and empower you to work smarter. We are particularly excited about a Focus Mode feature, designed to help you minimize distractions and stay laser-focused on your child's most important tasks.
While it’s still in the early stages, we wanted to share this vision with you and invite your continual feedback. Your insights are invaluable in shaping the tools and features that truly make a difference in your workflow. As always, thank you for being a part of our journey. We’ll keep you updated as things develop!
-Gabb Product Team
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I would like an immediate update on when the “focus time” feature will be up and running. Not only had I wrongly assumed this was already a function and find out my kid has been texting all night, I have, as a teacher, been recommending this phone to my class parents for years. Besides needing to sleep at night, many schools rightly require students to shut down phones during school hours and turn them in. Parents should be able to set these hours so children are not interrupted at school. Please message me directly with an update or I will be canceling my plan at the end of the month and recommending all parents at my school do the same. An iPhone has better parental controls available.
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At a minimum, this should be like the watch where you can limit use to emergency calls or calls/texts to the plan admin/priority contact based on a schedule. A "nice to have" feature would be the ability to set a schedule for each app individually.
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I am highly disappointed that there is no lock for phone usage. I thought this was a feature with the focus option but it dont work on the phones. Why is this feature not added for the phone we should be able to lock our kids phones.
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Add another parent to the list. I just got the 4 pro as an upgrade to the watch. I can’t believe that this isn’t a feature on the watch. Now I am making my child charge her phone in my room each night. This is a huge oversight.
I would like just an overall phone lock mode between hours of my choosing. Sure, it would be nice to allow a few apps (such as Libby) at all times, but this is an urgent need for parents so keep it simple to start with if you have to.
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We just bought the Gabb phone for our sons and expected this to be a feature as well. I would like to be able to lock the phone at night and during school hours.
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Shocked and disappointed that my son's new phone does not have this critical feature. If it's on the watch, why isn't it on the phone?
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Truly surprised to find that my son’s ipad is more restrictive on app and screen time limits than the gabb phone that I just bought for him. Even more frustrated to find out that this feature has been requested for at least 6 months. This does need to be fixed or we will likely not be gabb customers in the future.
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Yes!!! We need a Focus Mode ASAP. Please prioritize this feature. Parents need control to help our kids successfully transition into the tech world safely.
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Please add the lock feature under parental controls. Our son needs time away from the phone and this is the reaain we chise Gabb. When can this feature be added.
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Does the Gabb phone 4 pro not have the option to set down times? I can’t find it anywhere with the Gabb parent app. I have seen discussions on setting this for the Gabb watches but not the phone. Both android and iPhone parental controls have the ability to limit when a child can use apps on a schedule. This allows scheduling for when children are in school or at bed time, without having to manually disable/enable apps each time.
Am I just not seeing this somewhere? Or was this really not thought of when creating the parental controls?
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Desperately need the lock mode!!
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focus mode has yet to be implemented. How can an iPhone have a stronger lock/ parental feature than a GABB? I hope this is an immediate feature update on your forefront.
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I’m adding my name to the list of parents requesting more control over screen time on their child’s device. I am shocked there is no parental control for this and that this discussion has been happening for over six months and it’s still in the “early stages” of development. I definitely want to downgrade my plan to limited apps until this is figured out.
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To answer your questions on the features being requested:
- Lock Mode on specific apps? YES
- Lock Mode to all apps at once? YES
- Lock Mode to certain feature on the phone at scheduled times of the day? YES
I have all of these options on my older sons iPhone. I can set his screen time limits for specific apps and schedule downtime for his phone as a whole. However, even while on downtime I can allow specific apps to always be available or specific contacts so he could still text a parent and yet not have access to text friends.
I also want to be able to see the data of how much time he is spending on each app and on his phone in general. It has been so completely frustrating to constantly ask his to put it away or take it away because I can't set his app time limits. I'm okay with him playing a few games or dulingo, but setting boundaries for a 14 year old is important and I have no way of doing that other than to completely remove the device. This seems counter productive for trying to train him on proper phone usage. It's now January and this thread was started in June. Where's the update or progress in fixing this major issue?
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GABB!!! Seriously, it is ridiculous that the lock/focus/school mode fearure hasn't been added yet. If you can do it on the watch, you can figure it out on the phone. Just make it happen!
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