AirDroid Parental Control is the best comprehensive parental control App. It can help parents keep children safe online or offline and guide children to build healthy digital habits.
From this article, you can learn about all the features of AirDroid Parental Control.
- Today's Event(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
- Remote Camera(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
- Screen Mirroring(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
- One-Way Audio(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
- Notifications(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
- Applications
- Requests
- Downtime
- Always Allowed
- App Limits
- App & Content Restrictions
- Social Content Detection(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
- Website Restrictions
- Location service, Route History, and Geofence
Before checking what are those features and how to use them, please make sure you have set up the devices:
What is AirDroid Parental Control and how to start using?
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Today's Event(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
In Today's Event, you can check the daily and weekly app usage conditions. It will show you how long the app is used and the number of notifications. It can also tell you how much cellular data the apps use.
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Remote Camera(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
In Remote Camera, you can check the real-time camera of your child's phone. At the same time, you can hear the microphone of your child's phone. When checking the rear camera, you can turn on the flashlight. (Flashlight can only work when checking rear camera)
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Screen Mirroring(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
In Screen Mirroring, you can view the real-time screen content of your child's phone. At the same time, you can hear the microphone(One-Way Audio) of your child's phone.
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One-Way Audio(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
In One-Way Audio, you can hear the microphone of your child's phone. At the same time, you can record the audio. Go to My > My Recordings you see and manage the recording saved.
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Notifications(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
In Notifications, you can check the notifications on your child's phone. If you want to turn off the notification of specific apps, tap the "..." next to the notification, and then you can see the "Mute" button. You can tap the toggle button to manage all apps' notification permission. You can also block the app when you see its notification.
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Applications
In Applications, you can see all the apps installed on your child's phone. Go into a specific app, and you can see its usage condition and Information(when it was installed, what kind of app it is, Age Rating, and so on). And you can set a limitation for it specially.
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Request
In Request, you can see the requests and alerts of your child side. When your child uses up the limit, his/her request to remove the limit or have more time will show in it. Geofence alert and social content detection alert will also show in it.
If you tick "Start now, and the child can't change when" in the child's extended time request, the countdown will start right away. If not, your child can go to AirDroid Kids and begin the countdown anytime. This option is only available for iOS AirDroid Kids. Android Kids can only start the countdown right away.
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Downtime
In Downtime, you can set up a time and area to apply the limit. When restrictions are in effect, only Always Allowed apps will not be restricted. (now area limit is only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
The screenshot below is an example, when the child stays in Building A at 18:00-07:00, the child can't use apps except Always Allowed ones.
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Always Allowed
Apps added to Always Allowed will not be limited no matter what limits you have set up.
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App Limits
In App Limits, you can set uniform limits for multiple chosen apps.
The screenshot below is an example, AirDroid, AirDroid Cast, AirDroid Remote Support, and AirMirror apps can only be used for one hour every day.
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App & Content Restrictions
In App & Content Restrictions, you can prohibit your child from opening the newly installed apps and block specific apps. With the Instant Block option enabled, apps except Always Allowed will all be blocked.
The screenshot below is an example, the child can't open the newly installed app, and he/she can't open the Gallery app.
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Social Content Detection(only available for Android AirDroid Kids)
In Social Content Detection, you can detect your child's social media app content. You'll first need to enable the apps you want to detect in App Detection Management and then set up the keywords you want to detect in Keyword Management. It will send you an alert when the app receives messages containing the keyword. The alert will show in the Request part.
The screenshot below is an example, when your child receives "hi there" in TikTok and WhatsApp, you will receive alerts in the Request part.
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Website Restrictions
In Website Restrictions, you can configure and apply browser rules and filter harmful Internet content and sites.
You can set up white list, and black list, limit children to access websites after filtering, and view their browsing history.
For iOS AirDroid Kids, you can check and limit all the browsers including Safari.
Now Android AirDroid Kids can't limit all the browser apps of a child's phone. In this case, the AirDroid Browser was released. AirDroid Kids can limit and check this browser without any problem. You need to install AirDroid Browser on your child's phone. We recommend setting AirDroid browsers as the default browser for better usage results.
Here can you see how to use AirDroid Browser:
What's AirDroid Browser? How to start using it？
You need to first set up the URL Blacklist and URL White list and choose the mode you want.
- Unrestricted Mode: In this mode, AirDroid Browser will not intercept any websites and allow access to all URLs.
- Blacklist Mode: In this mode, you can choose to intercept specific website types and websites in the blacklist. Add URL in Blacklist then the URL will be blocked. And go to the Subscription part you want to block which type of website.
- Whitelist Mode: In this mode, only websites in the whitelist can be accessed, and all other websites will be intercepted.
The screenshot below is an example, with Blacklist Mode on, the child's phone can't access google.com Illegal Content and Violence websites.
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Location service, Route History, and Geofence
In location service, you can not only check the real-time location of your child but also his/her route history. In addition, you can set up geofence, when your child goes out of one place you will receive an alert, you can see the alert in the Request part.
You can check the real-time location of your child when go to the Location service. Go to Geofence choose a location and set up a radius then you can get an alert when the child goes out or goes in of the radius. You can check the historical record in the Route History part.
The screenshot below is an example, it has set up XXX Primary School in 100 Meter radius. When the child goes in and out of school, there are notes. And it will also have alerts in Request > Alerts.
Note:
To promise the best experience, the child's mobile phone needs to maintain a valid network connection, AirDroid Kids needs to keep running in the background on the phone and updated, and the AirDroid Kids permissions are always valid.
If the permissions of AirDroid are invalid or there is a new version with AirDroid Kids it will notify in the "Check the Required Permissions" and "Check Updates" parts. You can see which permission has been disabled.
In those cases, you need to go to your child's phone grant permissions, and update AirDroid Kids manually.
Here can you know how to update AirDroid Kids to the newest version:
How to update AirDroid Kids to the newest version?