Parents can remotely monitor text messages and call history on child-safe smartphone

Parents tin besides o.k. contacts, acceptable app and chat clip limits, and entree a curated app room suitable for the child's age

A child-safe smartphone, with built-in age-appropriate guardrails and distant monitoring capabilities for parents has launched for the archetypal clip successful the UK.

Pinwheel is an operating strategy loaded straight onto a scope of existing smartphones and tin beryllium utilized connected each large networks. The US steadfast down it says that this setup provides a much appealing alternate than giving youngsters a basal mobile telephone they whitethorn dislike oregon a high-end smartphone lacking the aforesaid information features.

Parents tin remotely show each their child's substance messages and telephone past with Pinwheel devices, o.k. contacts, acceptable app and chat clip limits, and entree a curated app room suitable for the child's age.

Notably, societal media apps and web browsers are excluded. Growing concerns astir the interaction of societal media platforms and wide telephone surface clip connected children's carnal wellness and intelligence well-being person led to galore large telephone makers and online platforms introducing assorted parental controls and information features successful caller years.

However, this is often a patchwork strategy requiring parents to person an relationship connected the level successful question oregon usage a akin device. Pinwheel boasts that, dissimilar different tech firms, it offers parents the quality to support tabs connected their children's usage done a cardinal online portal, which tin beryllium accessed from desktop oregon mobile.

Parents person the flexibility to tweak settings implicit time, gradually unlocking much features arsenic their youngsters mature and go much adept astatine managing technology responsibly.

Dane Witbeck, the CEO and laminitis of Pinwheel, said: "Ever since we launched Pinwheel successful the US a fewer years ago, connection dispersed rapidly among parents everywhere, including successful the UK. We are truthful excited to yet beryllium capable to conscionable the request for our phones here.

"Now parents and children person a mode to enactment connected and bask the benefits and amusive of a smartphone – from sharing photos, texting friends, playing games and more, but with the guardrails and monitoring that support everyone harmless and trim household conflict."

"We judge our phones springiness families a mode to assistance children make steadfast habits astir integer instrumentality usage and screentime without the antagonistic impacts and distractions of societal media and unfastened net access."