MMGuardian: Parental Control

4 kids, grade 7 and up. In my experience, parental control apps have generally been terrible. MMGuardian is the exception. It allows me to see how much time my child is spending on every app. It also allows parents to control how much time is allowed on each app. You can set internet viewing filters and bedtime, etc. They have a GPS location option as well. It's not perfect but it's far and away the best I've tried out of 3 or 4 others. They also have keyword and photo monitoring. Excellent

4 kids, grade 7 and up. In my experience, parental control apps have generally been terrible. MMGuardian is the exception. It allows me to see how much time my child is spending on every app. It also allows parents to control how much time is allowed on each app. You can set internet viewing filters and bedtime, etc. They have a GPS location option as well. It's not perfect but it's far and away the best I've tried out of 3 or 4 others. They also have keyword and photo monitoring. Excellent

This works! Your kid won't like it,so ignore the poor rating on the child app. It screens messages to all social media apps and sends alerts when it detects bullying, violence, drugs, sex talk, suicide, predator type messages coming in. Child will not know you've seen messages so allows you to prompt a discussion. We live in a terrifying online world now and this has given me some reassurances. Who has the time to read the load junk they send each other? this helps filter out the worrying bits

This works! Your kid won't like it,so ignore the poor rating on the child app. It screens messages to all social media apps and sends alerts when it detects bullying, violence, drugs, sex talk, suicide, predator type messages coming in. Child will not know you've seen messages so allows you to prompt a discussion. We live in a terrifying online world now and this has given me some reassurances. Who has the time to read the load junk they send each other? this helps filter out the worrying bits

We had this for our 12 yo. When she was 13 she got a new phone, switching from Android to iPhone & we didnt have the app installed for a month, as I was hoping to find something that monitored Instagram. Over the course of that month, we saw a significant shift in behavior. Spot checks revealed she had started engaging in increasingly risky chats & behaviors w/ her friends that also didnt have restrictions/ monitoring. This spilled over into school. You don't know you need this app, but ya do.