What parental control program for android should I install on my phone?

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Please help me choose a program.
School began and already from the first week it became clear that the child's smartphone has an extremely negative effect on it. Any free minute and the child goes headlong into games, scoring everything. It's just that you don't want to delete everything from the phone, or change it to a simple dialer.
Tell me what programs are there to control the use and blocking of programs for android, preferably with the ability to choose temporary periods of blocking. And I would also like to find a good program for covert tracking of the location of the phone using GPS and cell towers.
Thank you!

Answer 1

well, on the latest android, you can create accounts and tell them which applications you can use. All accounts are password protected. For example, when a child is at school, you can log in with an account that has only standard applications, after school you can log in with an account with allowed games, etc.
There is also the CM security application (but I had a bug a couple of times when I could run it without a password), it allows you to password specific applications. And if someone launches an application that is password-protected, then the program takes a picture from the front camera.
It seems that antivirus software has various functions to limit the use of applications - look.
For covert tracking, the megaphone has a " beacon " option.
Buy a second dialer phone, as soon as the child stops listening - solemnly hand him the dialer until he corrects himself (and then I remembered the scene from the movie "route 60" when drug addicts worked for drugs)
In general, this is wrong. The child must respect and obey the parents, without blocking or anything like that. The parent said you can't, so you can't. Disobeyed - means punishment follows. I remember, if my mother forbade me to play sega mega drive 2, then I didn’t play)

Answer 2

The most functional - ScreenTime (but constantly buggy with settings)
The most stable (out of 8 I tested this August) with acceptable functionality - Norton Family

Answer 3

To track the child, you can use the completely free GPSTag
program. This program is installed on the child's phone. And for parents, you need a GPS-Trace program that shows the location (also free).
In addition to tracking a child, you can also connect a car to GPS-Trace, it is very convenient when you can watch the whole family in one application!

Answer 4

Have n't mentioned FunControl yet . I preferred them for their non-trivial approach, and he was perceived normally by a child (unlike previous parental control applications). Recommend.

Answer 5

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com....

Answer 6

I installed www.opengsm.ru/price_prox.php for my son on iPhone 4, it not only shows the location, but also absolutely all his actions on the phone, correspondence, what sites he visited, activity in social networks. My son is 11 years old, he understands phones well, but for 4 months he never suspected anything.

Answer 7

My children have KidLogger - info.kidlogger.net/2015/08/parental-time-control-a... I monitor remotely via the Internet what I do, where I am. And she also set a ban on games and the Internet during lessons, but in general she allocated half an hour a day for games. Children aged 8 and 10 quickly lost the habit of staring at the screen.

Answer 8

And I liked this application: Reptilicus Parental Control . Reliable, high quality, inexpensive. Recommend.

Answer 9

There is such an application Where are my children - it is completely free, it works stably, there are no complaints.

Answer 10

I started with a free program for Android - Sentry
Everything suits - monitors correspondence in instant messengers, social networks, sms, Internet traffic, photo and video content - viewed and saved on a smartphone / tablet. It also provides statistics on the use of applications on the smartphone. There is a GPS tracker. And by the way, a very cool thing is the ability to turn on the sound on the child's device if he suddenly turned it off in class, for example, and forgot to turn it on at home.
First install the application on your smartphone, then on the child's device (tablet or phone).
When suspicious activities are detected, the parent will receive a notification - a screenshot of the correspondence or picture.
Then proceed as you wish.

Answer 11

You can use the new UniSafe Kids app www.kids.usafe.ru

Answer 12

I use mobiletool.ru it's not exactly parental control - but it's reliable.

Answer 13

For starters, you can just at least set up your phone correctly so that no nasty things are shown in Chrom and Youtube: https://deep-review.com/articles/kak-obezopasit-sm...

Answer 14

You can set up built-in parental controls in the browser, but controlling other resources will be more difficult. For insta I can offer a spy https://zengram.ru/instashpion , he will show with whom and how your child communicates, which groups he belongs to. Ultra useful service for parents.

Answer 15

There is some kind of control application, if I remember correctly, called mmgardian, or something like that. I don't remember exactly. It seems to be not bad, a friend said that she uses it. Well, by the way, I also know https://zengram.ru/instashpion . It's really helpful for parents. as it helps to keep track of what content a child is watching on Instagram. My daughter almost lives on Instagram, so I check her page from time to time. Who likes her there, whom she likes and so on.

Answer 16

By the way, you need to understand that sometimes such applications with geolocation can determine it incorrectly, so in which case you should not scold the child without hesitation. We had such a case already, we managed to figure it all out. Now we also pay a lot of attention to filtering consumed content, we use Instaspion for this, which we have already talked about. A good application, which, nevertheless, does not deprive the child of personal space)) But on the other hand, you can find out with whom he communicates more and what he is interested in, and in which case, direct him in the right direction

Answer 17

I know the Sentry program, we used it for some time. It looks good, but it also has its downsides. In particular, on our phone, the ora worked with frequent freezes and crashes. It was annoying. Now there is no need for such total control, so they removed it. But we continue to monitor what the child does on the Internet, in particular on Insta. We also use Instaspion. Of the available ones, this is so far the most normal service for tracking user actions.