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Parental Control Apps- Why this is a Revolutionary Discovery for the Future World

Published on 19 June 18
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In this modern age of smartphones and internet, it becomes easy for your children to get embroiled in the things that may be unsuitable for them. With this generation being more tech savvy it becomes crucial for people to prevent their children from the harmful stuff that they encounter on the internet every day. The study shows that a child spends an average of 9 hours on the internet every day. But most of the parents are unaware of that.

App development companies have found a solution to keep children safe from the harmful effects of the internet. They have designed parent control apps, these apps help parents to track the movement of their children on the internet and on the smartphones.
Benefits of using parental controls apps:

  • Monitoring:

Children get addicted to the new things they see on the internet. They have a tendency to find interest in porns and nude pictures that they can easily search on the internet. Sometimes they start talking with the wrong people on the internet and falls prey to online harassment and cyberbullying.

Anonymous texting sites and dating sites attract children. Predators with fake profiles reside on these sites and attract children. These apps provide parents with the information about their children’s online activity, gives details about the sites they are visiting and the things they are searching on the internet. Gambling and adult shopping sites should also be kept away from the sight of the children.

  • Tracking the location:

This is one of the best features of a parental control app. Children sometimes visit the places which are unsafe for them. Because of their age, they are vulnerable to getting lost, robbed and kidnapped.

So with help of these apps parents can keep a track of where they are going and with whom they are going.

  • Time management:

Children spend most of their time on smartphones and laptops. They fail to realize that there is a world outside technology. This feature sets a time limit. Children can use the smartphones within this time limit. It helps the children to be more focused on their studies, friends and extracurricular activities.

  • Application blocking:

Apps with in-app purchases and interactive interface may not be suitable for children. This feature allows the parents to block the application that they do not want their children to use.

  • Social media monitoring:

Social media is getting popular among children these days. They like to interact with new people and meet them outside of social media. They create an account and update their profile regularly. Sometimes they post photos and share things that have adult content.

Communication with some people who resides in these social media can be harmful. This feature allows the parents to check their children’s timeline, the photos they are uploading and the people they are talking to.

  • Safe search:

When the children get to know about the pornographic websites. They generate a curiosity to visit those websites. Getting exposed to explicit content in early age can harm their personality.

So parents can add online filters on the web browsers. The online filters help to remove the mature content before children can search those contents. Children cannot get access to the blocked content with the help of these filters.


How to download these apps?
Android Apps development companies are building these apps to generate a safe environment for the children when they are using the internet. Lots of Android apps have been built. People can download these android applications on their smartphones.

These apps are available for the android users on the google play store and can be download for free or to unlock more features, the paid version is also available. The price of these apps is reasonable and affordable. Some android parental control apps are ESET Parental Control App for Android, Qustodio Android Parental Control App.

  • Operating systems:

Operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Apple’s Mac OS and google chrome has pre-installed parental controls interface. They remove the mature content when children are surfing the internet. An updated version of these OS is recommended.

  • How to set up parental control apps:

After installing the parental control app on your electronic device, open the app, the app asks to enter a password, parents should make sure that their children do not find this password.

Once the password is set up, the app asks for the personal information of your children like age, date of birth and gender. Once it is all set, parents can add the applications they don’t want their children to get access to.

  • Do these apps work:

Questions that come to mind is: do these apps work in a proper way? Have parents ever use these apps on their children’s phones? The latest study shows that these apps show the parents, the websites their children have visited and the apps they have used but this might not be much effective.

It creates a friction between the children and their parents. An online survey showed that about 200 parents who have a child between 13 to 17 years of age are using these apps. They are said to be strict, but these children who have parental control apps in their phones have been harassed online and watches explicit content compared to other children.

On google play, 736 parental control apps are present. Parents gave a good rating to most of them but about 79% percent of children gave two-star reviews or less.

Many children described these apps as the invasion of their privacy. They said these are shaping their parents as stalkers and even stopping them from doing their homework.

  • Overdependence on these apps:

The study shows that parents are overdependent on these apps. instead of tracking their movement on the internet. they have grown a tendency to interfere in their children’s private lives.

Parental control apps should be used to provide children with the basic knowledge of side effects of the internet. as of 2016, about 16% percent of the parents use these parental control apps.

This blog is listed under Development & Implementations and Mobility Community

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