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Setup and first steps
Where to start if you are setting up parental controls for the first time. Guides for Android, iPhone and tablets, Family Link and Digital Wellbeing, free options, and what a parent sees in the reports afterwards.
7 min · readAndroid Digital Wellbeing vs. parental controls: what the app does and where it stops
What Android's Digital Wellbeing app does, why its app timers won't stop a kid, how to turn it off, and how it differs from parental controls and Family Link.
7 min · readHow to set up parental controls on your child's iPhone
iPhone parental controls need no extra app. Set up Family Sharing, a Child Account and Screen Time step by step, following Apple's iOS 27 support pages.
7 min · readHow to set up parental controls for free
What you can set up for free on a child's phone and computer: Android 17 controls, Family Link, Screen Time, Family Safety. And the point where you start paying.
7 min · readHow to set up parental controls on a child's tablet
Whose tablet it is, whether it has Google Play, and what changes on Huawei, Samsung and Lenovo. Set up a child's tablet and keep one daily limit across devices.
7 min · readHow to Set Up Family Link: Your Child's Account, Supervision and First Rules
Set up Google Family Link step by step: create your child's Google Account, turn on supervision, set a daily limit, downtime and app approvals, then check it works.
8 min · readHow to set up parental controls on a child's phone
Three ways, step by step: Android 17's built-in controls, Google Family Link and Gardion. What to do on your child's phone, what on yours, and what to test first.
8 min · readParental controls on Android: built-in settings, Family Link, and apps
What Digital Wellbeing can do, how the Parental controls section in Android 17 differs from it, where Family Link lets limits slip, and what to check before you pick a separate app.
7 min · readRemote parental controls: what you can really do from your own phone
What a parent changes at a distance and what still needs the child’s phone in hand. Family Link, Screen Time and Gardion compared, with the delays and the limits.
6 min · readWhat Parents See in Monitoring Reports — and What They Never Will
What data parental controls collect, what shows up in the reports, and where care ends and surveillance begins. A point-by-point breakdown using Gardion as the example.
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