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How to activate parental control on your child's smartphone with FamiSafe?

How to ensure that your children are using their smartphone properly? While the average age of acquisition of a smartphone is estimated at 11 and a half years, ABSMARTHEALTH explains how to install and take advantage of FamiSafe, a reliable and flexible parental control application.

In 2019, 77% of French people owned a smartphone, including 86% of 12-17 year olds. High statistics that should alert you to the importance of parental control. Offer your child a new form ofautonomy with the acquisition of a mobile device requires to remain vigilant to avoid abuse of use and access to unwanted content.

While it is now common to resort to software parental controls on PC, it should be remembered that similar solutions also exist on smartphones and shelves. This is the case of FamiSafe, available on Android and iOS.

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What does FamiSafe offer to protect your children?

As a parental control tool, FamiSafe is committed to two points: securing the environment digital within which the child lives, and the possibility for parents to keep a eye on the activities of the youngest.

Two promises kept thanks to the vast field of action covered by theapplication. First, FamiSafe allows you to block the applications of your choice on the smartphone of your child. For more flexibility, you can configure time periods that allow it to use the social media or to play their favorite games for a specified period of time. If you try to unlock, you will instantly receive a notification on your own mobile phone.

Web content does not escape the control exercised by FamiSafe which offers to block those deemed inappropriate. So when your child researches Internet from their smartphone, the results displayed take into account the filters applied. Again, if you want more flexibility, you can add exceptions to the list of blocked content.

It's no secret that using a smartphone is addictive. On average in 2018, 11-14 year olds spent 1 hour 26 minutes surfing the Internet from their mobile device, including social media usage time. To encourage reasonable use of the screens, FamiSafe offers parents access to a detailed report of their child's mobile activities. Better yet, the application allows you to define a screen time limit during the day and block the use of the smartphone after bedtime.

Finally, FamiSafe reassures parents thanks to its geolocation module. You can always know the exact position of your child and access the travel history. No more truancy, nor improvised detour on returning from school!

How FamiSafe synchronizes parent / child data?

FamiSafe works on a simplified model. You install the application on your smartphone and that of your child, enter your credentials and indicate whether it is the device of the parent or child. Thanks to the synchronization of the user account, the parent smartphone can access the data on the child smartphone within the limits of the options offered by FamiSafe.

Please note, FamiSafe is neither a keylogger, nor a VNC. You cannot read your children's messages or view their activity in real time. It is not a question of spying on them but of offering them a secure smart health connected environment.

How much does FamiSafe cost?

To take advantage of FamiSafe, you must take out a subscription:

  • € 9.99 for 1 month and 5 protected devices

  • € 19.99 for 3 months and 10 protected devices (a saving of € 9.98)

  • € 59.99 for 1 year and 30 protected devices (a saving of € 59.89)

Whichever option you choose, you benefit from all the features offered by the parental control application.

Tutorial: how to install and use FamiSafe?

Start with download FamiSafe on your and your child's smartphone. The application being cross-platform, it is perfectly possible to synchronize the parental control tools between a iPhone and an Android device.

Now that FamiSafe is installed on both smartphones, we will configure the child account.

Launch FamiSafe and log into your user account. The user account is the same for children and for parents.

In the next step, select "Child" to tell FamiSafe that this is the device to secure.

You just have to grant the authorizations necessary for the proper functioning of the application: geolocation, access to applications, etc.

The procedure for configuring the parent account is much the same. Log in to your user account and select "Parent" mode. In the application settings, check the connection of your smartphone to your child's device.

The FamiSafe health home page summarizes all the activities related to the use of your child's smartphone. You can visualize its geographic position in real time, get information about each installed application and know exactly the time spent in front of the screen during the day.

Quick access allows you to remotely lock your child's smartphone, limit the use of certain applications and configure a time limit on the screen.

To take full advantage of FamiSafe, go to the features menu. From here, we will see how to effectively use the geolocation module. Because if it is important to know the current position of your child, it may be useful to check his daily movements. To save yourself from spending the day in front of the real-time location module, trust the location history.

Once entered in the position history, you see the movements of your child on a card. The places he visited during the day are explicitly indicated, accompanied by the time of arrival.

To navigate the calendar and access the history of positions from the previous day or the previous week, use the directional arrows next to the current date, above the travel map.

To make it easier to read your child's movements, FamiSafe allows you to record specific places. This can be the address of the school, the sports class or a classmate. Select the module " Georeferences To add new sites.

The saved places appear in a dedicated list. Select the one for which you want more information. You visualize the arrival and departure times, which allows you to corroborate, or not, the timetable described by your teenager.

FamiSafe sends you a notification when your child is in a geographic area referenced by the geotagging tool. An ideal option to make sure he is well at school when he has to be there.

Because being in school does not always mean learning and concentration, it is sometimes necessary to give your child a little help. To encourage them to look at the board more than their screen, FamiSafe offers you to configure smartphone use restrictions, temporary or permanent.

On the features page, select the "Screen time" function. In addition to detailed activity reports for the past few days, this section allows you to view the applications installed on your child's smartphone.

To block access to a particular application, activate the blue switch. You can define a time period during which it will be impossible to access the application, create a weekly routine and configure a time limit for using the application. If your child tries to get around the blockage, FamiSafe instantly sends you a notification.

Still in the “Screen time” category, FamiSafe allows you to temporarily lock the screen of your child's smartphone. Select the appropriate button and block the device.

To allow your teenager to use their smartphone daily while limiting their screen time, set the timer made available by FamiSafe.

From “Smart planning”, automate the blocking of your child's smartphone according to the time and place it is. You can apply your limitations to all or part of the week depending on its school and extra-curricular activities.

If we think about application blocking to make your child spend less time in front of their screen, functionality is just as essential to protect them from online harassment and inappropriate content. We think of social networks, apps of instant messengers, but also to violent, hateful and pornographic websites.

To apply parental controls on the Internet, go to the "Web filter" module. From here, you generally block the content according to the category to which they belong. Activate or deactivate them with a simple pressure on the switches.

You can relax your blocking conditions by manually adding sites to a whitelist. Select the "Exception" tab and add the URLs of the authorized services.

Access to web browsing history and Youtube gives you the opportunity to keep an eye on your teen's online activities. When a site, ehealth or channel seems inappropriate to your child's age, block it by pressing theicon associated padlock.

Despite all the precautions taken to protect your child from violent and pornographic content, no one is immune to an attempt at cyberbullying. FamiSafe has an explicit content detection tool accessible from the functionality page. You will find all the messaging services installed on your child's smartphone, SMS understood.

This option tracks violent messages received by your teenager. To do this, FamiSafe integrates a suspicious text base. You access it by pressing the settings icon and can activate different alert filters. You can also add your own keywords such as insults or words deemed inappropriate by selecting the "Add a suspicious word" entry.

When your child receives a hateful, threatening or pornographic message, you will find the offending text in the "Potential problems" tab. The identity of the sender, the date and the date of receipt of the message are also communicated.

The images do not escape the informed eye of FamiSafe whose algorithm promises to track down violent or pornographic photos. Activate the feature from the "Suspicious photos" section. In the future, you will receive a notification when suspicious images are detected on your teen's smartphone.

Caption: Be alerted in real time when your child receives a violent or pornographic photo. © Wondershare

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