Apple iOS Parental Controls Limitations - Time to step up!

Dear Apple--

We aspired to move from Android to iPhones for all of the devices in our family. Your devices are so reliable, awesome battery life, and a predictable user experience that it makes sense to have.

HOWEVER, the features I've given up as a parent to keep my child focused and safe is substantial. You need only look at Android apps like www.SecureTeen.com OR www.mobilefence.com OR www.qustodio.com to see how woefully behind Apple is.

Here's what I need as a parent of a teen.

I need to be able to lock and unlock the entire device on-demand, remotely.

-Want a kid's undivided attention?....kill their screen.

I need GPS tracking...to know exactly where my kid is...and I need my kid to not be able to disable it.

Geo Fencing features on Android are nice, but truthfully only "nice to have" with so many other IOS short comings to fix first.

-Geo Fencing will use GPS to tell when a child enters or leaves a location. Did they get to school? Are they home? Alert me if they aren't where the should be.

SMS logging. Yes, I want every single SMS message sent OR received to be logged for my review. Not keyword filtering...we can't rely on a teen's spelling to catch problems.

Yes, we need the OPEN DNS-like category based filtering of web content, regardless of which browser is/was used on the phone.

Time limits: SecureTeen, Qustodio, and many more have elegant features to control who gets access to what, when, how long, etc. Time limits need a parental override without having to disable all other features.

Cross Device limits are great, too. Qustodio today monitors Kindles, Android Phones, and our iMac for our kids. I can set a cumulative limit of, say 2 hours of screen time, and it'll tally across all of the devices and lock them all out when consumed. This is powerful! Wish it worked on the iPhone.

App blocking. I don't care if he downloaded Facebook Messenger or Words w/ Friends....I want to be able to block or limit it if I need to.

Social tracking. Facebook, Instagram, etc. Need to know who he's communicating with and what about.

YouTube. Content filtering has got to block videos. Hardcore **** is waaaay too accessible.

A great parenting user interface / portal. Serve this stuff up in a way that we can easily navigate to important setting changes and also consume the logs of activities. If you want to be a thought leader and provide some categorization and/or filtering of these logs....all the better.

Parents need to be able to manage from a mobile enabled browser...anywhere....at work, on other mobile devices, etc.

Look Apple, I know that opening up your Event Model to developers to do these things risks viruses and other malicious apps to do the wrong things. I get it. However, these traits which lock in your stability is a parent's worst curse in protecting their kids. I see a couple of options:

Issue approved tokens to app vendors to gain access to these types of API calls to restrict access to approved parental control app makers.

OR, Apple could build these functions themselves. Kindle has done a great job with many of these features natively in their OS. Android has all of these hooks to make feature rich parental controls.

I'd pay, $20 / month for this entire range of functionality. That's less than 3 hours of a good babysitter per month. Worth every penny. It does not take a marketing genius to whip out the calculator and come up with a business model where things makes a lot of sense.

My kids want iPhones. I want them to have iPhones. But, as my kids are heading into middle school and high school, we are seriously considering returning the iPhone to the store in exchange for the latest Droid solely to mitigate this risk.

iOS9 is coming "soon". Surprise us with something awesome like this!

-Doug