Guides

Fifteen minutes now beats a year of renegotiating

Each guide is a checklist you work through with the phone in your hand. The taps are written out, the settings platforms bury are named, and your ticks are remembered in this browser.

Device

Age

iPhoneLock down a new iPhone in 15 minutesThe ten Screen Time settings that actually matter, the four Apple buries, and the one code that makes the rest stick.15 min AndroidSet up an Android phone in 15 minutesGoogle Family Link set up properly, what Samsung adds on top, and the sideloading, Safe Mode and developer-options gaps to close.15 min

App audits

The app they're asking for

Open the app hub

A setup guide governs the device. An app audit governs one specific request — what's actually risky on it, which switches to flip, and the three questions worth agreeing before the download. Each one is a single page you can forward into a parent chat.

RobloxRoblox: what's actually risky, and the 5 switches to flipRoblox isn't one game, it's millions of them. The risk isn't the games — it's the chat, the trades, and the age on the account.10 min TikTokTikTok: what's actually risky, and the 5 switches to flipTikTok's defaults are better than their reputation. The problem isn't a setting you forgot — it's a feed with no ending.8 min SnapchatSnapchat: what's actually risky, and the 5 switches to flipSnapchat's defaults are quietly good. The risk is location, streaks, and the belief that a snap really disappears.8 min DiscordDiscord: what's actually risky, and the 5 switches to flipDiscord is a hundred different places depending on which server you're in. Set it up by asking which one.10 min YouTubeYouTube: what's actually risky, and the 5 switches to flipYouTube's risk isn't the videos they search for — it's autoplay finding the next one. Here's where to set the ceiling.8 min InstagramInstagram: what's actually risky, and the 5 switches to flipTeen Accounts do a lot by default. Most of what's left is who can reach your child in messages, and how long Reels keeps them.8 min

Settings vs street smarts

Controls set the boundary. Judgement keeps them safe when you're not looking.

A guide gets the phone set up. Then your child meets a stranger inside a game you approved, at a hour you weren't awake for, on a device you weren't holding. NetWise Kids puts them in a realistic group chat, DM or trade request and lets them practise saying no — before the real one arrives.

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