Any way to block Safe Mode on an Macbook w/ an M1 chip? Please help!

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Any way to block Safe Mode on an Macbook w/ an M1 chip? Please help!

My teen soon is highly addicted to porn. After tons of research, I have set up very strong DNS filtering and powerful website and app blockers on his computer. These launch on login and are are unable to be killed because Activity Monitor and other workarounds are blocked. I have admin rights, he is a standard user. However, he's figured out how to start the Mac in Safe Mode, which doesn't launch the website and app blockers on startup and thus are rendered useless. Is there a way to disable or block Safe Mode from being used? My son has a Macbook Air with an M1 chip.

And yes, we're working on other methods to get him to stop. He has no phone, for example.

Many thanks in advance!

Posted on Mar 27, 2022 11:54 PM

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Mar 28, 2022 5:48 AM in response to nathanryanproctor

Here is a Dec 2021 Apple Platform Deployment guide. I see no practical means of restricting your son's ability to boot into Safe Mode without direct parental monitoring or confiscating the Air, and that would be so PITA. You are already denying privileges, and perhaps that can be expanded in a balance of mutual trust, respect, and familial harmony.

Or… confiscate the MacBook Air and give your son a ChromeBook and let him use Google Docs for his schoolwork.

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