iPhone monitoring, teenager

Did a quick search and found a few threads about Jlow's phone being hacked, entertaining but not the info I am looking for.

So whats the best app for monitoring snapchat and whatever else these darn kids are using these days?

As Regan said, trust but verify.

 

You can monitor texts, but I doubt there is anyway to monitor snapchat. And honestly depending on how resourceful the kid is they could know you can read the texts and start using whats app which texts through wifi, which to my knowledge you can't monitor either unless you take their phone and read it that way.
The reason you can't do that with snapchat is because unless they save the conversation it deletes it.

 

What are those apps that were created precisely so you can’t find out what your kids are up to? I’d start by checking for those.

 

I have actually found several apps that will monitor everything but snapchat (texts, wifi texting ect...) There is one app out there that claims to be able to see snaps, but it requires jailbreaking which I am not going to do. She currently has a slider phone but got her DL last week and I can't monitor locations and no GPS in the slider phone. We had a little trust issue in the past of her not being where she was supposed to be. I told her if she gets the phone back I get to monitor everything.

She is too much like me and it scares the shit out of me.

The belt had its desired effect on me but not so sure I should be using it on my 16 girl.

 

Trish Regan or Laura Regan?

 

roland regan...

Someone edit that shit for me...lol.

 

Delete snapchat. Nothing good comes from that and kids.

As for monitoring the rest of what they do:
1) walk over to him/her/ them.
2) take phone and open the app.
3) see what they are doing.
4) hand phone back if you are okay with what they are doing or take phone away if you don't.

You're paying the bill, it isn't their phone, it's yours.

 

Delete social media apps, disable her ability to download apps, ask her to hand over the phone when you are suspicious. You are her parent, not her friend.
My sister's 15 year old girl is being prosecuted for distributing child porn for sending her own nude selfies to a boy her age. They trusted her with snapchat until they couldn't, and now she's in deep shit.
Kid's don't need those apps. They can make those choices when they are adults.

 

As long as you are paying for the phone, you determine how it is used. If they don't want to share activities, they can do without the phone. Period. If they earn you trust, you can allow more latitude. Key word is earn.

As for the car, there are devices that can track location speed etc. that can be installed in the car.

 

Damn, could you imagine if you parents were checking on everything you did when 16?
Maybe have a real talk with her, this lack of trust cant be good for either of you.

 

When I was a teenager, the means didn't exist. Well there was neighborhood Momitoring. Then again, we actually had to make actual contact with folks before we could coordinate anything dastardly, cameras weren't in everyone's hands, and much of the stupid couldn't be proven.

 

It's not checking on everything they are doing. You can give them freedom to be with their friends and have privacy in their rooms - but their phones are not a sanctuary. Social media is dangerous for children - teens and young children are groomed by creeps all the time. You can be flippant all you want - but it's called being a parent and knowing what your kids are up to.

 

Back when I was 16 there was social media. You were seen doing something stupid, chances are that the person or people who saw you knew who you were and were on the phone with your parents before you even had a chance to finish doing your epic shit.

No photos, no proof didn't mean shit if the woman who went to high school with your mom said you did it.

 

Buy a Jitterbug.

Tell her if she does anything stupid you swap it out for her smahtphone.

 

And that is what I meant by Momitoring. It was damned effective too.

 

Hope she gets decent sleep, had to take young sis in laws phone off her for a while, was regularly up beyond 2-3am chatting with her ebuddies, then doing a craptacular job at school the next day. Self restraint isn't their strongest suite.

Edit: I physically took it as she spoofed the Mac address I had blocked at the router, age 14.

 

Wrote a few paragraphs but erased it, dont want to get started on a debate here.
Hope this works out for you and her.

 

So you ashleyjaded what you wrote