How to Promote a Safe and Healthy Smartphone Use?

Smartphones and tablets were designed to make our lives easier. While it’s true that they have many benefits, they also lack security. The danger exists out there, particularly for children. Parents have been frantically searching for a way to keep kids safe while using smart devices.

First, companies responded to security threats by creating parental control apps that can restrict access and block certain websites. But, generation Y and Z are more tech-savvy than any other generation we have come across. Today, parental control users can surpass restrictions with just a few google visits. Even younger children can get around these apps; a parent installs inside a device.

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Second hackers can easily get access to your child’s device. In the age of the internet, it does not take long for hackers and adult content to get in front of your child’s device. A movement that sparked concerned a few months ago was the Momo Challenge. Hoax or not, it opened the eyes of parents everywhere for the increasing dangers kids face online.

Having your child sitting next to you on the sofa or even just down the hall in their room is not safe. Children and teenagers are exposed to more content than ever before. Taking their phones and tablets away is not enough. Most of their activity takes place online, including homework and school assignments.

So what can parents do?

One trend we are seeing is companies uniting forces to protect our youth better.

A great example is Samsung devices and their initiatives with several tech partners. We see more parents switching to Samsung products because they provide technology with the perfect synergy of indestructible software and hardware.

Today, Apple products cannot guarantee safety for younger generations. Most of the parental restrictions Apple provides can be navigated around with ease.

So what should you look for in your parental App?

Parental Control

  • Review all apps installed and decide which ones can be installed in the future.
  • Remove or disable any apps you like.

Filter The Internet

  • Block or allow access to certain websites, with just a few clicks.

Stop Dark Web Content

  • Unable access to pornography, VPNs, proxy services, and other dangerous avenues for children.
  • Automatic set up of the device.

Manage Screen Time

  • Send or receive SMS texts and phone calls from designated numbers during bedtime.
  • No access to internet or apps.

No “off” setting for location services

  • Disallow location services turned off.
  • Log in and track the location of each device.

Remove Access

  • Remote management of features, text message, or calls.
  • Manage your child’s devices anytime, anywhere.
Keep Your Kids Safe

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Our world is an increasingly digital one. Taking devices away will only hurt your children’s ability to research and thrive in a working environment.

Safeguarding their access with guaranteed precision, you can have complete peace of mind that you’re limiting, monitoring, and protecting them in the only fail-safe way around.

Software-based protections are not enough in today’s age. Many companies have tried to revolutionize the software, yet children face more danger on the internet than before. Some of the risks children are exposed to are predators, cyber-bullying, and dark content.

Safer Cell Services keeps your kids fully protected while giving them the ability to use their devices safely.

All it takes is installing software onto a Samsung mobile device. It interacts with the existing chipset built into the phone and takes over from there.

Our generation grew up without cell phones, but for this generation, tablets and phones are a commodity. The facts about wireless use with kids all reveal that technology is going to keep intruding into our lives. We can use it as an asset, or we can allow it to take over.

Don’t leave your children vulnerable to dangers on the other side of the screen. Keep them away from addictive habits with their devices that make them unable to function socially.

Safer Cell Services helps you create a safe balance for your kids so they can get the best out of technology.