Analog Mode locks your child’s iPhone down to calls, texts,
and a few apps you choose — with one tap from your own phone. Homework time,
dinner time, bedtime: press it, and their phone goes analog.
Coming soon to theApp Store
Go ahead, press it. On your kid’s
phone it works even if the app was force-quit.
How it works
Install Analog Mode on your phone and Analog Mode
Kids on theirs, then pair them by scanning a QR code. Setup takes about
five minutes per child.
Tap the button whenever you want their phone quiet. Apple’s own
Screen Time enforcement shields every distracting app — games, social,
video — while calls and texts keep working.
Tap again to unlock. Offline phones catch up the moment they reconnect, so
there’s no sneaking around it by toggling airplane mode.
Built like a seatbelt, not a spy cam
Analog Mode doesn’t read messages, track location, or report what your kid
does on their phone. It does exactly one thing: makes the phone boring on demand.
The enforcement runs on the child’s device using Apple’s Family Controls
— we couldn’t peek even if we wanted to. Here’s
everything we store.
Analog Mode is in family testing ahead of its App Store release.
Questions? We answer email quickly.