My 5-year-old is the worst offender. He loves to watch toy review videos on YouTube, so I’ll tell him he can watch one video and then he needs to do something else. I’ll get distracted with work, other kids, making dinner or something and he’ll sit and watch until he gets caught! Now that I have OurPact on my iOS devices, his methods no longer work.
What is OurPact?
OurPact is an easy-to-use iOS application that helps guide our children’s mobile habits. Instead of my yelling at my kids to turn off the tablet or asking a million times, the app shuts it down for me. I simply create a profile for each child and input a schedule for their app use. OurPact allows apps and internet during the allotted time slots and blocks it during times my children should be doing other things. All of this is controlled from my own iOS device.
How do I get started?
Getting started is easy. OurPact is a free app so you can download it from the iTunes store. Once it is downloaded setting up your profiles is easy. Simply visit pair.ourpact.com in Safari from the iOS device you want to control and set up your children’s profiles. From there OurPact has a quick tutorial to explain how to set up profiles, set time limits and use the app. It’s very simple.
Beyond the schedule you set within the app you can easily allow access or block access with the click of a button. I know things come up and life happens and instead of altering your entire schedule just click to block or allow.
