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Phone contract for my son

Janey1a
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My 12 yr old son has his first phone, an old one of his dad's, and he's been on Pay As You Go until now. However, I would like to do the following:
- use some kind of Find Your Phone app so we can trace him if we need to. Does he need to be on a contract with data included for me to be able to do this? If so, if he runs out of data would that stop the Find My Phone app from working?
- set parental controls on apps like YouTube which, at the moment, he just accesses via Google and can easily change the restricted mode to Off, then switch it back on in case I check his phone!
any advice please? I want to give him some independence but want to protect him at the same time!
- use some kind of Find Your Phone app so we can trace him if we need to. Does he need to be on a contract with data included for me to be able to do this? If so, if he runs out of data would that stop the Find My Phone app from working?
- set parental controls on apps like YouTube which, at the moment, he just accesses via Google and can easily change the restricted mode to Off, then switch it back on in case I check his phone!
any advice please? I want to give him some independence but want to protect him at the same time!
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The answers you seek are going to depend on what phone OS it is using, i.e.:
- Android
- iOS0 -
If it is an Android phone.....Read through this, it may be of help.
https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/google-android/android-parental-controls-3461359/Drinking Rum before 10am makes you
A PIRATE
Not an Alcoholic...!0 -
It's an old iPhone so iOS.0
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Any advice please?0
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Not an iPhone user (since iPhone 3G) but found these for you...
https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97949
and
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201304Drinking Rum before 10am makes you
A PIRATE
Not an Alcoholic...!0 -
Any find my phone app won't work if you run out of data, whether it is one you installed or one that the phone manufacturer provides as a service like Samsung do.
Forget putting restrictions on anything other than putting the restriction on the account so he can't access adult material when using mobile data, although be aware even that isn't infallible. He's 12 and if he doesn't know how to work around it then one of his friends will so whilst he's connected and browsing on wifi you have to accept you most likely can't control that.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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