OS X El Capitan: Parental Controls NOT working

Well if you make something better please let us know. I'm currently having to deal with a windows 8.1 machine that likes to just install printers on it's own even though all the settings are telling it not to. My client just had to buy some software without keeping me in the loop and now I have an actual nightmare instead of just the parental controls issue which is mildly annoying. Don't forget, it can be much, much worse. You could be on Windows.

At least Windows 8.1 has GREAT Parental controls. The best out of any OS.

Windows 8.1 doesn't have a great anything. It is a manifestation of error and frustration. The parental controls thing is the worst thing I've seen in the entirety of my OSX experience. I'm shocked when something goes wrong like this on OSX. I'm shocked when something goes right in Windows. ROFL

If there weren't video games I think M$ would have died a long time ago. Even Apples attempt at productivity software is way better than office 2016. SSL on exchange doesn't even work and its their own proprietary system!

I don't have anything against Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows RT, or any of these OS's. I wish Apple had better quality control over OS X El Capitan and iOS 9, but I still use Windows and OS X on a daily basis. I am currently working on a 2009 MacBook with Mountain Lion, and the parental controls are working great...

Whatever happened it happened in Mavericks around the .5 release.

Yosemite's parental controls were fine for many of us. El Capitan destroyed them.

Yes it's been a downward spiral. The duplicate icons were the first thing to happen in simple finder and that was around Mavericks. Forgot to mention sometimes in simple finder the icon folder that has the applications inside it would disappear, or the icons inside the folder would disappear. It stayed unchanged and had those issues throughout Yosemite. And then, yes, El Capitan killed it entirely.

I sent a request to the writers of osxdaily.com. It doest seem like a very productive thing to write an article about, because there's no fix, but we'll see. The whole point of this is to get more users with these problems to report it with feedback to Apple.

It's a great feature although I don't use it for children. I use it as a makeshift kiosk mode. It is great for employees so they don't get lost in the computer. We run a point of sale on top of the kiosk mode and it has really cut the "oops" calls to me.

so you don't think it would be any better for me to return the two new macbook airs i got [for my teen(s) with the with hopes a new machine would mean working parental controls] and replace them with windows notebooks? sure would save some $$.... i need to be able to monitor/log in remotely from varying networks as well. Perhaps it would mean even more problems.....

so you don't think it would be any better for me to return the two new macbook airs i got [for my teen(s) with the with hopes a new machine would mean working parental controls] and replace them with windows notebooks?

I would wait for the fix instead of buying windows notebooks.

either wait or buy some used ones that support mountain lion.

kimberly254 wrote:

so you don't think it would be any better for me to return the two new macbook airs i got [for my teen(s) with the with hopes a new machine would mean working parental controls] and replace them with windows notebooks? sure would save some $$.... i need to be able to monitor/log in remotely from varying networks as well. Perhaps it would mean even more problems.....

I have been following this thread mostly on the sidelines, since: a) I had never used Parental Controls before; and b) I tested the problems here mentioned and none of them seem to occur in my mac.

The errors that happen for some users but not all (or sometimes but not all) are the hardest to figure out, and this seems to be one of those.

Regarding remote access to a mac, it is usually very easy. Back to my mac works quite well, allowing me to access my home iMac from wherever, just by clicking in the Finder sidebar.

For me, whatever problems there are in the mac, the pain of having to use windows is far greater. And, FWIW, I have had very few problems, using El Capitan since the public betas up to now.

I am curious and would like you to clarify that you tested the ALL problems mentioned here.....did you test Google Docs, Google Classroom, Google Drive and had ABSOLUTELY no problems with Parental Controls active? These are educational tools used in most middle and high school and it is not functional with Parental Controls turned on.

I'm concerned though, that this is a result of their yearly release cycle or something like mismanagement of the development of features. El Capitan had one of the biggest overhauls of the system according to what I've read about what they did with security. What kind of lead time did that give 3rd party developers to make sure their drivers worked? I know most printer companies were caught with their pants down and had to scramble to get drivers out while star micron has yet to release a new driver for the printer proxy service.

If they release a new OS every year, at what point will it destroy smaller companies trying to keep up?

I love the rapid innovation, but it looks like there are realities that need to be dealt with to keep this sort of pace going.