Originally Posted by
Honey_184 I plan on buying my daughter the Galaxy S5 as soon as my N4 comes in but I need some suggestions on a good parental control app I can install on her phone before I even put it in her hands, can anyone help? I need something that's going to prevent her from searching for, or stumbling upon anything adult related as well as prevent her from going on chat sites
It won't block sites -- I'm not sure there is an Android app that can do that -- but I would nevertheless highly recommend
Screen Time Parental Control. It will let you impose daily time limits, bedtime hours, school hours, and you can block whatever app you want during school, bedtime, or whenever. It also gives you a detailed real time summary of what your child is and has been doing on her device -- what app she is using, what website she is viewing, and every search term used. It is wildly authoritarian in the control one can impose, but I find it absolutely necessary for my two tweens, one of whom has both a phone and a tablet (the other one just a tablet). You can also use it with
a separate remote control app on your own device to monitor, control, and authorize usage of the device, apps, etc. (as opposed to going to the website or child's device to do it), but it's $3 a month for a subscription (there's a 7 day free trial). I've found it's worth it.
She means a way to block her daughter from visiting certain content -- Kids mode is more for young kids (so they can play games without accessing any phone functions).
.10-10-2014 05:15 PM
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