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Here’s how to turn any iPhone into a dumb phone for you or your kids

9to5Mac • Mon, 06 Jul 2026

Here’s how to turn any iPhone into a dumb phone for you or your kids

One of the big challenges for parents these days is that you may want to give your kids access to a phone for emergencies or tracking before you are willing to give them access to the internet, social media apps, and so on. There’s also a growing trend of people buying dumb phones in order to reduce their own phone addiction, like the Nokia shown above. Apple is giving parental controls a major upgrade in iOS 27 , but there’s a little-known way to turn an iPhone into a dumb phone without waiting for this …

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One of the big challenges for parents these days is that you may want to give your kids access to a phone for emergencies or tracking before you are willing to give them access to the internet, social media apps, and so on. There’s also a growing trend of people buying dumb phones in order to reduce their own phone addiction, like the Nokia shown above. Apple is giving parental controls a major upgrade in iOS 27 , but there’s a little-known way to turn an iPhone into a dumb phone without waiting for this …

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One of the big challenges for parents these days is that you may want to give your kids access to a phone for emergencies or tracking before you are willing to give them access to the internet, social media apps, and so on.

There’s also a growing trend of people buying dumb phones in order to reduce their own phone addiction, like the Nokia shown above.

Apple is giving parental controls a major upgrade in iOS 27 , but there’s a little-known way to turn an iPhone into a dumb phone without waiting for this …

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