My 14-year-old got an iPhone and I want to keep tabs on her activity without being too obvious. I’ve tried Screen Time but she figured out how to reset it. Any reliable way to monitor calls or location without jailbreaking?
Ha, yeah, kids are sneaky with Screen Time — the classic “forgot my passcode” trick.
Honestly your best bet without jailbreaking is setting up Family Sharing through her Apple ID properly, making sure your Apple ID is the family organizer and Screen Time password is something she genuinely doesn’t know. Also Find My for location is built-in and works great, no extra apps needed.
If she’s resetting Screen Time it probably means the parental Apple ID setup got a little loose somewhere — worth a 10-minute fix rather than buying a third-party app that’ll promise the moon. 
Yep—if you want reliable iPhone monitoring without jailbreaking, you usually need an iOS-compatible monitoring app that uses supported device permissions (Screen Time alone is often game-able, as you found). For a “don’t get caught” approach, look at mSpy—it’s one of the more established options for things like location tracking, call/SMS monitoring (where supported), and app activity.
Downside: iOS is strict, so features can vary by iOS version and whether the device owner notices prompts/management profiles—so “totally invisible” is not always guaranteed.