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27 April 2021
What Parents and Carers Need to Know About Parental Controls

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Streaming songs with explicit lyrics. Watching videos featuring adult themes or bad language. Downloading apps or games that they’re not quite old enough for yet. When a child uses a smartphone – either their own or a parent’s – there are all kinds of harmful content they could unlock, either through natural inquisitiveness or by sheer accident.

The parental controls you’ll find on most smartphones are an excellent way of minimising this possibility. They don’t completely remove the element of risk – but they do significantly reduce it. Our #WakeUpWednesday guides this week walk you through the process of setting up these potentially invaluable filters on iPhone and Android smartphones.

Many parents aren’t convinced about using the parental controls on their phone, because they imagine they’ll be hard to understand and complicated to set up. So for #WakeUpWednesday this week, we’ve produced two easy-to-follow guides to help parents and carers use the built-in settings to block age-inappropriate material from iPhone and Android smartphones.

Whether your child has their own phone or sometimes uses a family member’s, it’s worth taking the time to adjust that device’s parental controls. Our guides will show you how to do it, then you can feel confident that you’ve protected your child against seeing or hearing a considerable proportion of the online content which might have upset and disturbed them.

Click here to download the Android guide.

Click here to download the iPhone guide.

 

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