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.
2. Install Google Family Link on your own phone.
3. Add their registered e-mail to your Google Family Link.
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.
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.
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.
9. You can lock their device from anywhere.
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.
11. YouTube will not allow them see adult content too.
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.
14. You will see as much as major details of the app.
