With the start of the 2025–2026 school year, Alabama’s new FOCUS Act is officially in effect — banning student cell phones, ...

Yondr phone pouches use a patented magnetic locking system to prevent students from accessing their cell phones during school hours.

As parents, we want our kids to pay attention in the classroom, but we also want them to socialize, lift their heads up and ...

While companies like Apple and Samsung might claim that their phones are fine with getting wet, actually getting a phone ...

At the end of the last school year, Brownsville Area School District put a ban on all wearable technology, and despite some initial pushback from some students and parents, the district says it's ...

Measuring 8.3 inches tall, the brand says the pouch works for iPhone models back to the 13 Pro Max, with many reviewers saying it fits “ most of Samsung Galaxy A series phones” as well.

When Lauren, a rule-abiding eighth-grader in New York, got her first school-issued Yondr phone pouch in sixth grade, she accidentally hacked it. “My dad watched it happen.

In the coming school year, kids will be met with NY's "Distraction Free Schools" policy, banning cell phones during the school day.

Specifics of where phones will be kept are up to individual schools. In some cases, students may keep the pouches in their backpacks, in others, they will be in a secure spot inside of the ...

Critics of phone bans in schools — whether through using pouches or by having a strict “no phones” policy — have raised concerns over how students would be able to contact their families ...

The secure pouches, known as Yondr pouches, will remain secure until a teacher or administrator uses an unlocking station so students may access and retrieve their phone at the end of the school-day.