How Parents Can Monitor Their Children's Phones | READ DETAILS
Nancy Okafor
Apr 21, 2022
How Parents Can Monitor Their Children's Phones | READ DETAILS
Parents, if you must buy your children android phones or other portable devices, you need to follow the below steps to be safe:
1. Register a Gmail account for them with the correct age and with your email as the parent.
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2. Install Google Family Link on your own phone.
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3. Add their registered e-mail to your Google Family Link.
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4. Factory Reset their android device if they already have one then login the device with their own Gmail account that is linked to your Google Family Link.
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5. If it is new device, make sure it is their Gmail you use to activate the device.
6. Immediately you carry out step 4 & 5 above, your phone will get a notification to allow them activate the device, this is the beginning of you taking control from anywhere.
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7. All adult content of any form will never load in their phone.
8. They cannot install anything without your approval remotely from the Family Link.
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9. You can lock their device from anywhere.
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10. You can set a start and stop time for their device usage, the phone will lock when it gets to that time even if you forget.
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11. YouTube will not allow them see adult content too.
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12. There is also YKids, which is YouTube for Kids, I recommend you remove the normal YouTube and give them YKids.
13. From ur Google Family Link, u can see how long they stayed on each app or page to warn them where necessary.
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14. You will see as much as major details of the app.
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