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FAMILY PILOT SETUP

Set it up once. Let the guardian be unpopular.

About ten minutes, one parent password and one small handoff test. Do the boring check now. Avoid the exciting Saturday incident later.

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THE INSTALL PROTOCOL

Six steps. Zero family IT committee.

  1. 01

    SEPARATE THE POWERS

    Parent is Admin. Child is Standard.

    In System Settings, open Users & Groups and create a Standard account for the child. Keep the administrator account and password with the parent. Yes, obvious. Also yes, field-tested.

  2. 02

    INSTALL FROM THEIR ACCOUNT

    Sign in as the child. Run the package.

    While the child’s Standard account is active, open the downloaded .pkg and follow Installer. Use the parent administrator password when macOS asks. The package installs GG Time plus the root-owned guardian and supervised login agent.

    Download the signed package →
  3. 03

    DEFINE THE DEAL

    Create the PIN, allowance and game list.

    Open GG Time and create the private parent PIN. Set the daily allowance and play hours. In Games & Limits, use Choose a Game… to add every app that should use the shared clock. Changes apply immediately. There is no Save button hiding in another dimension.

  4. 04

    CHECK THE SHIELD

    Confirm System protection is active.

    Open Settings and find System protection. It must report Protected and show that Force Quit recovery is active with a fresh guardian heartbeat. If it does not, stop here and reinstall the family package from the child account.

  5. 05

    OPTIONAL REMOTE CONTROL

    Pair the parent iPhone.

    Open the TestFlight invitation on your iPhone and install GG Time Parent through Apple TestFlight. In GG Time on Mac, unlock Parent Access and create the five-minute pairing code. Open GG Time Parent on the parent’s iPhone and scan it. Parent changes use Face ID, Touch ID or the iPhone passcode. Keep the Mac online and check that a test reward shows as Applied before relying on remote controls.

  6. 06

    TRUST, THEN VERIFY

    Run the two-minute handoff test.

    Open a limited game and confirm the clock moves only while that game is frontmost. Reduce the balance to zero and confirm the game closes. Open it again and confirm it closes again. Finally, Force Quit GG Time once: built-in protected games should close during the gap and GG Time should return within a few seconds.

OPTIONAL APPLE BACKSTOP

Two clocks. One clear boss.

Screen Time and GG Time are independent. If Screen Time is set to one hour and GG Time shows two, Apple blocks the app after one hour. GG Time cannot reopen it.

A saved coupon stays in the wallet until used or expired. Once redeemed, its minutes belong to today. Unused minutes do not return to the wallet and expire at midnight.

Recommended: set Screen Time as a higher emergency ceiling, then let GG Time handle the everyday earned allowance. A strict one-hour Screen Time cap requires a second parent approval whenever you want to allow more.

SET THE HARD CEILING

  1. Manage the child through Apple Family Sharing.
  2. Protect Screen Time with a parent-only passcode.
  3. In App Limits, select the same games.
  4. Choose the hard daily cap and enable Block at end of limit.
  5. Test one request for more time before handoff.
Apple’s Screen Time instructions →

BEFORE THE LAPTOP LEAVES YOUR HANDS

The parent checksum.

Advanced download details for the family sysadmin

Release: GG Time 1.2.9 (12), Apple-silicon family installer.

Security: Signed with Developer ID and notarised by Apple.

SHA-256: 94273a9ab44597fa16469993e810df005a46188454f39851f0f393cef09b95b9

System protection makes ordinary stopping ineffective. It does not make all child-owned settings and account data hack-proof. Keep Screen Time as an independent hard ceiling when that extra boundary matters.

READY PLAYER PARENT?

Install now. Negotiate less later.

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