The parental controls on iPhone actually work, unlike on Android. I found it very easy to setup my daughter's iPhone so it just can't be unlocked during school on school days. The only way I could figure out how to do this on Android was using apps that wanted high privilege levels, which I just wasn't going to do. Plus, my kids already know how to use an iPad, so iOS was a no-brainer.
The kids use Chromebooks all day long and all the apps on their phones are Google apps, so it's not like Apple has some kind of monopoly on their virtual lives.
The "Downtime" setting. Set it to start at 7am, end at 3pm, and you're set. (We exempt the messages and phone apps in case they need them in an emergency.)
Not sure if you can have a school and bedtime as separate limits, though. That'd be handy.
Right. You can do it with school time on an Apple Watch, but I’m not aware of any way to do it on a phone with downtime, other than I suppose extending the nightly downtime through the day.
It most certainly works just fine on Android. Family Link is excellent - better than what an iPhone has because it tracks more stuff, and is more fine grained.
You can lock specific apps, with time slots and max time for each app.
Having used both systems, have to say that the iPhone parental settings are just leagues ahead of android. It is dead simple to set and view usage based on app or category, and setting overrides just seems to work.
The kids use Chromebooks all day long and all the apps on their phones are Google apps, so it's not like Apple has some kind of monopoly on their virtual lives.