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I need to put something on my kid's iPhone 5C so I can keep tabs on her. I would like the most visibility possible. I want to know everything she's doing on there. has anyone had success with a certain one? The ones I have found are not cheap. Some require jailbreaking, others don't. I want to get as much feedback as possible before purchasing. Thanks!
iPhone 5c, iOS 7.0.4
Without jailbreaking the phone, there's very little you can install on an iPhone that will do what you want. Jailbreaking will void your warranty and make the phone vulerable to malware. You may want to talk to your carrier about what sorts of usage monitoring services they offer. Consult the manual to educate yourself on the restricions available on the iPhone itself. Consider getting your child a basic phone if she is not mature enough to be trusted with a smart phone.
When I post the question, "What phone should I get my child," you can comment on that. I don't think I asked you that though.
This has been discussed ad nauseum. Try going through this thread - be prepared for a lot of reading
"Sweet" Bee, being rude to those trying to help you is no way to get people to want to assist. You said specifically that you wanted as much feedback as possible, so don't jump down the throat of someone who does just that.
Thanks varjak paw. Big help. I think "Consider getting your child a basic phone if she is not mature enough to be trusted with a smart phone" was rude. I did not ask what phone to get me child, so that does not fall under the "as much feedback as possible" I was hoping to collect. Why did you even bother posting? Are you that bored? Sorry if I was rude, but I don't think their comment was helpful or polite. Yours wasn't either.
Meg gave you a considered answer. You can't do what you want with an iPhone, so providing a phone with fewer features is a perfectly reasonable suggestion.
And my reply was not intended to be polite. It was intended as a wakeup call to you for your attitude. No one in these forums owes you one second of their time. Everyone here provides their assistance out of the goodness of their hearts. I would ask that you keep that in mind when you castigate someone for providing their opinion.
No need to reply further. I have no interest in debating with people as inconsiderate of others are you clearly are.
Sweet Bee wrote:
When I post the question, "What phone should I get my child," you can comment on that. I don't think I asked you that though.
I gave you the best answers I had and what are probably some of the best answers available. I took time out of my day to try to help you. If you don't like my answers, the polite thing to do would simply have been to say "Thank you." Should you have been unable to muster even that basic level of civility, saying nothing would have been appropriate.
The problem I have is, getting a non-smart phone is kind of obvious. There are apps or programs out there that do what I am asking. If you are not aware of them, you didn't need to post anything. I do appreciate you taking the time out of your day to post though. That was very kind of you. FYI, your comment, "Consider getting your child a basic phone if she is not mature enough to be trusted with a smart phone" was condescending and presumptuous. Thanks again!
Thanks again varjak paw. I now see the error of my ways. You have been a great help. Thanks for taking so much time out of your busy day to reply to my question not once, but twice!
Seriously, do you know of a good app? I bet you do and you are just holding out on me.
Find my friends. Enable it on her phone, then restrict access so she cannot change the settings. That would allow you to know where she is (unless she turns off the phone).
I have heard good things about this one, and it does not require jailbreaking your phone.
http://firsttoknow.com/how-to-spy-on-your-kids-iphone-text-messages/
I have been trying to do the same thing, except that I wish to monitor MYSELF, in order to answer the question "where did my time go today?."
I have found some interesting ideas with an app called IFFT (If this then that). You can, for example, have your phone text your husband (or text Evernote with the time that you left) whenever you leave for the day. I haven't tried it yet, but how about having it send you a copy of all of your daughter's texts? Or you could do something similar with Facebook postings.
I know that Verizon Familybase does some of this monitoring stuff too. Hang in there, the new iOS release for the app "Rescuetime" has lots of potential, if it is half as effective as their web app.
Cheers!
As it is said, the built-in parental control on iPhone can help you to restrict your kids' activities to some extent, but can't monitor activities on it.
For better iPhone monitoring suggestion, monitoring software iKeyMonitor is a good choice.
Any good iphone monitoring suggestions
