Tangential, sort of: in the early days of mobile phones for the masses, when there was no WiFi/3G in the underground, I will often enable Bluetooth in my phone, look for nearby devices and try to match names and looks.
That was before everyone had their "John's IPhone" or "Samsung A55" boring names everywhere and some of us cared to personalise our device's name.
Yes, and I do the same. However, Kids Corner was a curated list of apps that you chose to share freely without password/FaceID.
I don't want to lock my browser, photos, maps, etc. behind FaceID. I want to hand my phone knowing they will only use one or two apps and the fun stops when they hand me over the device.
That's parental control, that's not the same. I want to hand my phone to my kids and let them access only one or two apps that I have listed as allowed.
I don't want (yet, but it will come) for them to have their own device that I control as you explained.
Slightly off-topic, but as this will require kids to have access to an unlocked phone...
I remember Windows Phone had the feature of "unlocked apps", which you could run without having to unlock the phone: think calculator, browser, games. It was called Kids Corner[1].
Have any other OS (iOS/Androind) copied anything similar to that? This app will (or at least in my case) live in a place like that, where they do not have access to the whole platform.
Just two days ago the BBC published[1] a story about how a ransomware group tried to infiltrate their network by.... approaching their cybersecurity correspondent.