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An Introduction to AT&T Smart Limits
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ talks about AT&T Smart Limits and why they're a great ingredient in helping keep your children safe and smart with cellphones, even when you're on the road or away from home.
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hi dave taylor here and
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when i'm traveling i can't help but
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wonder what are my kids doing
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every time i look at my cell phone i
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think hmm what are they doing on their
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cell phones
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that's why i really like the att
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wireless service called
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smart limits so what smart limits lets
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me do
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is it lets me set time parameters and
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data parameters for my children
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on their individual lines let's have a
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quick look
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to get started you want to go over to
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wireless.att.com
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and look for smart limits under quick
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links you can see it here
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the first place you want to go with
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smart limits is to the dashboard
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and here you'll get a quick heads up on
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how things are going
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you can also see here that my son has
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spent
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zero of the six dollars i've allocated
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this month
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for him to be able to do online
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purchases now he's very clear
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that if he does spend that money that he
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actually owes me the cash
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scroll down a bit and you can see some
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alerts also
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so for the last five days the smart
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limits itself
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has alerts that indicate new people
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new text from unknown numbers things
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that are happening outside of
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normal hours etc you can see my son's
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doing pretty well
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he does have a tendency to do some late
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night texting
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where i think smart limits really shines
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though is with controls
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so on the left side i've actually chosen
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controls
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and now here are various pre-built
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parameters that i can use
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to for example manage when he can use
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the phone
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one of them that's already built in is
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school restrictions and now when you can
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just turn it on
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and then from about 8 am till
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3 pm monday through friday the phone
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actually is less capable of doing things
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than it would otherwise be in this case
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i have one i've created called late
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night and i'm going to go ahead and turn
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it on but first
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let's click on the edit and see what the
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details are
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as you can see here my late night
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controls
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are basically from midnight to 6 a.m
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every night
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his phone then doesn't accept texts from
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unknown people
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phone calls from unknown people etc and
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basically
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what i'm trying to do is i'm trying to
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reinforce the idea that from midnight to
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6 a.m
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you can sleep it's ok nothing's gonna
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happen
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so that's pretty cool there's more to it
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of course because there's only so much i
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can show you without actually giving you
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everyone's cell phone numbers
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but the att smart limits it's a couple
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of bucks a month but if you have
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kids on your family plan or on some at t
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wireless program
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then it's a really nice way to make sure
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that they're not up at three in the
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morning
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texting or doing other things now
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important to note is that it doesn't
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manage the wi-fi connection
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so if you also have wi-fi in your house
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you probably want to actually disable
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that late at night
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and again that's something you can set
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up in your router but
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for your cell phone for their most
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importantly their cell phones especially
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at school or late at night or at a
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friend's house
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it's pretty sweet oh and here's one
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other important thing
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is you can also set up certain numbers
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especially the numbers that are within
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your family circle
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to be special so that they always work
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and they can always contact them
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even if the smart limits have otherwise
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disabled the phone because it's
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three in the morning so this is dave
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taylor and if you're not on a t
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well i hope your carrier has similar
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services but for us
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at t wireless smart limits it's a good
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way to go
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see you in the next video
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you
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