What is a good app to monitor our kids' activities on Snapchat, Instagram, text messages, photo, locations and where they have been, etc....? A group of us are having a hard time staying ahead of the learning curve on how to keep tabs on our kids without being helicopter parents....we just need to monitor to protect them from what they don't yet understand or realize...
iPhone 6 Plus
Understandable in this day and age.
There is no way to fully monitor your kid's activity on apps like Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook other than logging into their accounts and viewing their accounts. Hopefully, you know your kids login info. If not, time to get it.
Regarding text messages, you would need to setup iMessage and FaceTime using your own Apple ID, but this would also mean they would have the ability to see your messages.
Another option would be to check their iPhones periodically. If you don't know their passcode, time to get it.
For location tracking, if the kids are using iPhones, you can set up Family Sharing. Check out this article on how to set it up and how it works: Family Sharing and location - Apple Support
Restrictions are also a parent's best friend. Check out how to set them up here: Use Restrictions on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
So, basically, get all up in their business. Your house. Your rules. Right?
For location tracking, the best app is Find My Friends. It's already installed on all iDevices.
Lol we are already all up in there with phone checks/passwords, etc however have heard there's more we could be doing but are not tech savvy to know all ins and outs... We've heard of snaphack for snap chat, watch all posts on other apps already and trust the kids but we are not naive enough to think not ours.... Just trying to be proactive. Didn't know about restrictions from Apple end so that is good. Thx!
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