How do I make my child's phone stricter during exams?

Exams are when a phone is both most useful and most distracting. A child who can look up a formula can also lose an hour to a video. The easiest answer is a temporary change in the rules.

In the Skie dashboard, you can use schedule windows. A window has days, a start time, an end time and a list of allowed apps. During study hours, for example, only the reading app, the calculator and the dictionary work. Outside them, the normal list returns. Windows can run overnight and the first matching window wins.

For the whole exam period, you can instead swap the app list. Hide games and social media for two or three weeks, keep calls on, and put the original list back when the exams end. Because apps are hidden or suspended, not deleted, their data returns when you allow them again.

There is no per-app time limit yet, and no daily screen time cap. Those are not available, and the team is working on them. A tighter window is the closest tool today. If you want to give a reward, change the window for an evening.

Tip: agree the exam rules with your child before they start. A child who helped decide the list is more likely to keep to it. Remote lock is also there for the night before a paper.