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Best Child Phone Monitoring App
WebWatcher has some of the most complete tracking and reporting abilities we’ve seen in a smartphone parental control app. It includes an activity log that shows you how your child uses their phone. One of the app's most impressive features is it can track every text message your child sends or receives, even if the message gets deleted. While this might seem extreme, it is helpful if your child struggles with cyberbullying or risky behavior they don’t want you to know about.
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Of the services I tested, Net Nanny was one of the best at filtering Web content, right up there with ESET Parental Control. Net Nanny reliably masks profanity, blocks inappropriate sites and images, and gives you the option of warning your child about a site's content instead of blocking it entirely.
Parental-control apps for smartphones can help parents track their kids, see with whom the children are communicating, block kids from reaching objectionable or dangerous websites, and even help kids understand the value of limits in a digital world while preventing them from accessing adult content or texting with strangers.
Note: Retina-X Studios, the maker of PhoneSheriff and Mobile Spy, no longer takes new orders for either app following a break-in into company servers in March 2018. For the time being, we've removed both apps from the carousel above.
When your child is acting up or breaking down, your instinct may be to hand them a smartphone. But how does that really affect the child? Dr. Adair provides some food for thought before handing your child a smartphone.
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Norton Family Premier, PhoneSheriff or ESET offer more parental-control features than My Mobile Watchdog. Still, the $100-a-year service offers some appealing capabilities and lets you manage up to five devices.
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When Is Smartphone Monitoring Legal? Smartphone parental control apps are typically legal to use on your kid’s phone, but only if your child is a minor and you are the person legally responsible for the device. You may be required to tell your child that you are monitoring their device, depending on where you live. However, even if you aren't, it may be a good idea to tell older children and teens about monitoring apps on their phones and explain why it’s important to you and why it should matter to them.
While Screen Time may not have the comprehensive tools of some parental control apps, it might meet your needs and save you money in the long term. Screen Time is available on devices running iOS 12, which was released on September 17, 2018. The oldest iPhone model that can run iOS 12 is the iPhone 5S.
PhoneSheriff does just an adequate job at monitoring web browsing, and it doesn't offer social-media monitoring. The services it does provide, however, are stellar and provide an easy way to make sure that your child's texting and app use are aboveboard. Smart features like a panic button that lets your child send you an alert with his or her location will add to your peace of mind.
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Some features require a rooted Android or jailbroken iOS device. Jailbreaking or rooting your device to install unauthorized software or applications on your smartphone is generally considered a bad idea because it opens the door for malware and “bricking” your phone, making it unusable. Because of the inherent risks that come with either of these processes, we do not advocate doing so. Of the apps we reviewed, only Mobistealth, XNSPY and TheOneSpy have features that require a rooted Android device.