Keep Tabs on Your Kids With Sprint's Safe & Found App

Dart just launched a new parental control app chosen Safe & Found, which tin can help you continue tabs on what your child is doing in the real world and online.

The app costs $6.99 a month but is jam-packed with features intended to give you peace of listen. View your kid's smartphone location in real time or ready "prophylactic areas"—similar domicile, school, or work—and receive alerts when they enter or leave those zones. There'south also an SOS button, which lets you lot send an emergency alert with your location to all family members at once.

The app also lets yous restrict incoming email and calls to only trusted numbers, make sure installed apps are age-appropriate for your kid, and regulate their usage to sure times of day. It too filters out inappropriate spider web content and blocks certain apps from youngsters' phones. Plus, if your phone is lost or stolen, you can use the app to locate, lock, and wipe it.

The app is bachelor on iOS and Android, and Dart is offering a xv-solar day free trial to new subscribers. The person paying for the app needs to be a Sprint customer, only you tin add family members from unlike carriers to your Safe & Institute account.

"With everything happening in the world today, this is a way for parents to stay connected to their kids, whether they're iii,000 miles away traveling away or two miles down the street at school," Kelly Clay-Slack, a parent who tested the app in beta, said in a statement. "Providing a tool that helps parents stay in affect, create safety plans, restrict numbers from unknown and potentially dangerous sources, and filter and block inappropriate apps is very reassuring."

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's good on fitness and smart abode products. Teaching yoga for most ten years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, force training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to proper noun a few.