App Safety Guides
Understand the risks, privacy settings, and practical steps for every app your child uses.
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Features are based on what each of our app guides says. Apps change often, so check the app's own settings too.
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TikTok Parental Controls and Safety Guide for Parents
A practical guide to keeping your child safe on TikTok, including privacy settings, content controls, and what parents need to know.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +5 more
Snapchat Safety Guide for Parents
Everything parents need to know about Snapchat, including disappearing messages, location sharing, and how to set up Family Centre.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +7 more
Instagram Safety Guide for Parents
How to protect your child on Instagram with privacy settings, supervision tools, and practical advice for parents.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +6 more
Discord Safety Guide for Parents
A parent's guide to Discord servers, voice channels, and direct messaging — and how to keep your child safe on the platform.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +7 more
Roblox Safety Guide for Parents
A parent's guide to Roblox, including in-game chat, spending controls, and how to set up parental restrictions.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +7 more
YouTube Safety Guide for Parents
How to set up YouTube's parental controls, restricted mode, and supervised accounts to keep your child safe while watching videos.
- Contact from strangers
- Livestreaming
- Public posts
- +3 more
YouTube Kids Safety Guide for Parents
A guide to YouTube Kids settings including content levels, search controls, and timer features to help parents manage their child's viewing.
- Parent controls
WhatsApp Safety Guide for Parents
Practical advice for parents on WhatsApp group chats, privacy settings, and helping children manage messaging safely.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +4 more
Telegram Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Telegram's channels, secret chats, and self-destructing messages — and how to keep children safe.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +3 more
Twitch Safety Guide for Parents
A parent's guide to Twitch live streaming, chat safety, donations, and how to protect your child on the platform.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +4 more
Facebook Messenger Safety Guide for Parents
How to set up Facebook Messenger safely for your child, including privacy controls and Messenger Kids as an alternative.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +4 more
Fortnite Safety Guide for Parents
A parent's guide to Fortnite, including voice chat, in-game spending, and Epic Games' parental control settings.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Random matching
- +4 more
Minecraft Online Play Safety Guide
A parent's guide to keeping children safe while playing Minecraft online, including server safety, chat settings, and age-appropriate configuration.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +2 more
Group Chat Apps — Safety Overview
A comparative safety overview of the most popular group chat and messaging apps used by children, including WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord, and Telegram.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +2 more
Livestreaming Apps — Safety Overview
A parent's guide to the risks and safety settings of popular livestreaming platforms used by children, including Twitch, TikTok Live, YouTube Live, and Instagram Live.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Livestreaming
- +1 more
iMessage Safety Guide
Safety considerations for Apple's iMessage, including group chats, photo sharing, and parental oversight.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
FaceTime Safety Guide
Safety guidance for Apple's FaceTime video calling, including who can contact your child and group call risks.
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- Voice chat
- +1 more
Reddit Safety Guide
Understanding Reddit's risks for young people, including content exposure, anonymity, and community dynamics.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +4 more
AI Companion & Chatbot Safety Guide
Safety guidance for AI companion apps and chatbots that children and teenagers are increasingly using.
- Adult or mature content
- AI chatbot or AI tools
- In-app spending
Social Discovery & Friend-Making Apps
Safety guidance on apps designed to help young people meet new people online, and why they carry elevated risks.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +5 more
Omegle & Random Video Chat Safety
Why Omegle and random video chat sites are fundamentally unsafe for children, and how to block access and discuss the risks.
- Contact from strangers
- Random matching
- Video calls
- +1 more
Kik Messenger Safety Guide
What parents need to know about Kik Messenger, including its anonymity features, grooming risks, and why it is not suitable for children: Kik's minimum age is 18.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +2 more
X (Twitter) Safety Guide
A parent's guide to X (formerly Twitter), covering content risks, privacy settings, and how to help your child use the platform more safely.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Livestreaming
- +4 more
BeReal Safety Guide
A parent's guide to BeReal, covering location data, privacy settings, and what makes this app lower risk but not risk-free.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Public posts
- +1 more
ChatGPT Safety Guide for Parents
A practical guide for parents on ChatGPT — what it is, how children use it, and how to set appropriate boundaries around AI chatbot use.
- AI chatbot or AI tools
- In-app spending
- Parent controls
Google Gemini Safety Guide
What parents need to know about Google Gemini — including how it appears on school devices, what data it collects, and how to limit children's access.
- AI chatbot or AI tools
Microsoft Copilot Safety Guide
A parent's guide to Microsoft Copilot — the AI assistant built into Windows 11, Microsoft Edge, and Office 365 — and how to manage children's access.
- AI chatbot or AI tools
AI Image Generation Safety Guide
A parent's guide to AI image generation tools — including Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion — covering deepfake risks, CSAM generation, and body image concerns.
- AI chatbot or AI tools
- In-app spending
Spotify Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Spotify — including explicit music and podcast content, social listening features, and the parental controls available through managed accounts and Premium Family plans.
- Private messages
- Adult or mature content
- In-app spending
- +1 more
Netflix Parental Controls Guide
How to set up Netflix parental controls, create a kids profile, use PIN locks, and manage what your child watches on the platform.
- Adult or mature content
- Parent controls
Amazon Prime Video Parental Controls
How to set up Amazon Prime Video parental controls — including profiles, PIN locks, purchase restrictions, and content ratings — to manage what your child watches.
- In-app spending
- Parent controls
Chai AI Safety Guide
An urgent safety guide for parents about Chai AI — an AI companion app popular with teenagers that has documented incidents of harmful and explicit content and very limited safety features.
- Public posts
- Adult or mature content
- AI chatbot or AI tools
- +1 more
Pinterest Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Pinterest — image sharing, mood boards, and the risks of body image content, harmful trends, and scams.
- Private messages
- Public posts
CapCut Safety Guide for Parents
Everything parents need to know about CapCut — TikTok's video editing app — including data collection concerns, deepfake risks, and age considerations.
- AI chatbot or AI tools
- In-app spending
Steam Safety Guide for Parents
A parent's guide to Steam — the world's largest PC gaming platform — including community chat risks, profile safety, and adult content mods.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +6 more
Epic Games & Fortnite Safety Guide for Parents
A complete guide to Epic Games — home of Fortnite — including the friend system, voice chat, V-Bucks spending, and parental controls.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Random matching
- +4 more
EA Sports FC (FIFA) Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA) — including loot boxes, Ultimate Team gambling mechanics, online chat, and spending risks.
- Voice chat
- In-app spending
- Loot boxes
Grand Theft Auto Online Safety Guide for Parents
Why GTA Online is not appropriate for under-18s — graphic content, voice chat with adults, in-game gambling, and what to do if your child is already playing.
- Contact from strangers
- Voice chat
- Adult or mature content
- +1 more
VRChat Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about VRChat — a virtual reality social platform with significant risks from stranger contact, harassment, and immersive environments.
- Contact from strangers
- Voice chat
- Adult or mature content
- +1 more
Yubo Safety Guide for Parents
An urgent parent's guide to Yubo — a high-risk friend-making and livestreaming app, now an adults-only (18+) platform, with significant concerns around stranger contact and location.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +5 more
Signal Safety Guide for Parents
A balanced guide to Signal for parents — understanding end-to-end encryption, privacy benefits, and the challenges for parental oversight.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Voice chat
- +2 more
Zoom Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Zoom — video call safety, meeting link risks, recording concerns, and settings for safer use with children.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Video calls
Microsoft Teams Safety Guide for Parents
A guide for parents whose children use Microsoft Teams for school — understanding chat, file sharing, and how to identify potential misuse.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Video calls
Kick Streaming Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Kick — a livestreaming platform with minimal moderation, adult content, and significant risks for younger viewers.
- Livestreaming
- Adult or mature content
- In-app spending
Vinted Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Vinted — a second-hand clothing resale app officially for adults — including scams, address sharing, and stranger messaging.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Buying and selling
Depop Safety Guide for Parents
A guide for parents on Depop — a second-hand fashion resale app popular with teenagers — including scam risks, address sharing, and image-based concerns.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Public posts
- +1 more
eBay Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about eBay — scam risks for young sellers, address privacy, account security, and safe online marketplace habits.
- Private messages
- Buying and selling
Character.AI Safety Guide for Parents
A practical, honest guide to Character.AI for UK parents — how AI companion chatbots work, the mental-health and safeguarding risks, and the settings and conversations that matter.
- Public posts
- Adult or mature content
- AI chatbot or AI tools
- +3 more
NGL Safety Guide for Parents — The Anonymous Question App
What UK parents need to know about NGL, the anonymous question app linked to Instagram Stories — how it works, why it pressures teens, and the safest action to take.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Anonymous messaging
- +1 more
Meta Quest VR Safety Guide for Parents
A practical UK parents' guide to the Meta Quest VR headset — setting up Parent Supervision, choosing safe social apps, and managing immersion, friends, and casting.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +5 more
Threads Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Threads, Meta's text-based social app linked to Instagram, including privacy, content discovery, and adult-topic exposure.
- Contact from strangers
- Public posts
- Parent controls
Wattpad Safety Guide for Parents
A practical guide to Wattpad's community fiction platform, including mature content, in-comment grooming risks, and age-gating bypass.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Public posts
- +2 more
Lemon8 Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Lemon8, ByteDance's lifestyle and photo-sharing app, including beauty-filter pressure, sponsored content, and a low minimum age.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Public posts
Pokemon GO Safety Guide for Parents
A practical guide to Pokemon GO's location-based AR play, including raid meet-ups, PokeStop congregation points, and in-app purchases.
- Contact from strangers
- In-app spending
- Buying and selling
- +2 more
Webtoon Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Naver's Webtoon comics platform, including mature content tiers, comment culture, fast-pass spend, and fan-art DM solicitations.
- Public posts
- Adult or mature content
- In-app spending
Bluesky Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Bluesky, the decentralised Twitter-style network gaining UK teen users, including the AT Protocol, the labelling system, and how moderation differs from X/Twitter.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Public posts
- +2 more
Mastodon Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Mastodon, the federated social network where the choice of server (instance) shapes the entire safety experience.
- Private messages
- Public posts
Strava Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Strava, the activity-tracking app, including heatmaps, running routes, location leakage, Privacy Zones, and Athlete Privacy Controls.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Public posts
- +2 more
Crunchyroll Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Crunchyroll, the anime streaming platform, including mature-tagged content, the account-age versus profile-age gap, and Discord crossover.
- Adult or mature content
- In-app spending
- Parent controls
Marco Polo Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Marco Polo, the family video messaging app, including indefinite storage, group invite risks, and why 'safer than DMs' is only partly true.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- In-app spending
LINE, KakaoTalk & WeChat Safety Guide for Parents
What UK parents need to know about diaspora messaging apps - LINE, KakaoTalk, and WeChat - including age-verification gaps, in-app browser exposure, cross-border data, and payments.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +5 more
Tumblr Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Tumblr, the resurgent fandom platform, including mature-content settings, AI-generated image floods, and the ask-anonymously feature.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Public posts
- +3 more
LinkedIn Safety Guide
Understanding LinkedIn's risks for teenagers, including recruitment scams, fake job offers, and unsolicited adult contact.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Livestreaming
- +1 more
Viber Safety Guide
Understanding Viber's risks for young people, including contact from strangers, group communities, and disappearing messages.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +5 more
Archive of Our Own (AO3) Safety Guide
Understanding Archive of Our Own (AO3), a large unmoderated fanfiction site, and why its content is not filtered for children.
- Contact from strangers
- Public posts
- Adult or mature content
Wizz Safety Guide for Parents
A high-risk friend-making app that connects teenagers with strangers. Wizz has been repeatedly removed from app stores over child-safety and sextortion concerns. What parents need to know.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Random matching
- +1 more
Call of Duty & Warzone Safety Guide for Parents
One of the most-played shooters among UK teenagers. Call of Duty is rated PEGI 18 for realistic violence and has open voice chat and in-game spending. How to set it up and talk about it.
- Contact from strangers
- Voice chat
- Adult or mature content
- +1 more
Teen Dating Apps: Grindr, Tinder & Bumble
Dating apps such as Grindr, Tinder, and Bumble are strictly 18+ adult platforms — but underage teenagers do access them. Why they are unsafe for children and how to respond.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- In-app spending
- +2 more
Anonymous Messaging Add-ons: Sendit, YOLO & Tellonym
Apps that let people send your child anonymous messages — often bolted onto Snapchat or Instagram. Anonymity removes accountability and drives bullying. What parents should know.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Anonymous messaging
- +1 more
Gacha & Loot-Box Games: Genshin, Brawl Stars & Clash
Genshin Impact, Brawl Stars, and Clash of Clans are built around 'gacha' and loot mechanics — random paid rewards that work like gambling. Where the money goes and how to lock it down.
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- In-app spending
- +1 more
Temu & Shein: Shopping Apps and Children
Cheap shopping apps popular with tweens and teens. The concerns are less about content and more about dark-pattern spending, data collection, and unsafe or counterfeit products.
- In-app spending
Rumble & 'Alt-Tech' Video Platforms
Rumble and similar 'alt-tech' video platforms market themselves on minimal moderation. That is exactly why they can expose children to conspiracy, extremist, and harmful content.
- Livestreaming
- Public posts
Facebook Safety Guide for Parents
What parents need to know about Facebook — Marketplace scams, friend requests from strangers, Groups, cloned accounts, and the settings that keep a teenager's profile private.
- Private messages
- Group chats
- Contact from strangers
- +6 more
Monkey App Safety Guide for Parents
Monkey is a random video-chat app that pairs children with strangers. Why it is high-risk and unsuitable for under-18s, and what to do if your child is using it.
- Private messages
- Contact from strangers
- Random matching
- +3 more
Grok: AI Chatbot & Companions — Parents' Guide
What parents need to know about Grok, the chatbot and AI companions built into X — the 'Ani' 18+ character, age checks we could not confirm and deepfake risks. Not suitable for under-18s.
- Adult or mature content
- AI chatbot or AI tools
- In-app spending