How can I stop dd sending iphone messages?

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Dd has limits on her iPad. During ‘Down time’ she is unable to send iMessages, except to me as I am her emergency contact. It won’t let me block or stop this.

Is there a way I can stop her doing this?

You can switch off iMessage in settings.

Thank you. From the iPad or remotely from my phone?

Do you want her to be able to message you or not?

Why do you want her to stop messaging you ? If it's because she can't be bothered coming downstairs to talk to you just ignore the msgs .
If its while she is out then only answer every other one or what ever you feel is appropriate

How old is your DD?

I'm confused 🤔
Do you want to remove the block on sending imessages to others? Or remove yourself as emergency? Or block her messaging you?

I don’t want her sending them at all. She’s 6 and was given the iPad last year. Now she can read and write she’s sending me messages. I am not a huge fan of technology for kids and would rather she not have the access all together. She only uses the iPad at home so has no reason to message me.

She has 30 mins a day and mainly uses this for her homework the school sets via Twinkl reading books and purple mash.

I think it's cute she is messaging you. DS(6) sometimes sends me emails. It's good typing/spelling practise! If you don't want her to though, can you remove yourself as emergency contact?

Turn off iMessage inside the family settings. If she’s 6, she doesn’t need an emergency contact does she?

Am I misunderstanding? Can’t you just take the iPad away when she’s not using it..?

I really don't see the issue with her messaging you in the half hour she has access to an iPad?

This

but also just turn off iMessage on her iPad / sign out
you can also go as far as deleting the messages app

Good grief I thought she may be 11 - 16 and just pestering . At 6 why on earth foes she need a ipad of her own ?
You said it for homework ( which I think is a sad state of affairs) but at 6 yrs old you need to be the adult and tell her to stop .

There is an override with the iPad that I can’t seem to change where once their time is up, they can have 1 more minute without the adult needing to grand permission. That gives her more than enough time to send messages 🤦🏻‍♀️

What is ‘down time’? Is that a time when she shouldn’t be on the tablet so she shouldn’t be on it to message you anyway or down time as in rest time so she can chill out on the iPad?

It can be changed in settings but I would also say stop messaging or there’s not more tablet 🤷‍♀️

Perhaps remove it altogether. Why does a 6 year need an iPad? And why on earth does a 6 year old need emergency contacts? She should always be with an adult at that age.

You are allowed to take it from her

So take it off her after half an hour!

I don’t understand. I’d be encouraging this myself.
Is it too much bother to do a bit of messaging for 1 minute?

This - I encouraged my daughter to message members of our family. It helps with reading and writing.

Wait till she’s 16 OP…. She won’t message you at all then! (Unless she needs money)

60 seconds?

I don’t understand why this is a problem. You are the person she can message and she only has one minute in which to do it per day. What’s the issue?

Thanks all.

Apologies for not making it clear, dd can press the one more minute repeatedly so can keep sending messages!

What's the problem with the messages, is she sending loads of them?