Understand the risks, privacy settings, and practical steps for every app your child uses.
A practical guide to keeping your child safe on TikTok, including privacy settings, content controls, and what parents need to know.
Everything parents need to know about Snapchat, including disappearing messages, location sharing, and how to set up Family Centre.
How to protect your child on Instagram with privacy settings, supervision tools, and practical advice for parents.
A parent's guide to Discord servers, voice channels, and direct messaging — and how to keep your child safe on the platform.
A parent's guide to Roblox, including in-game chat, spending controls, and how to set up parental restrictions.
How to set up YouTube's parental controls, restricted mode, and supervised accounts to keep your child safe while watching videos.
A guide to YouTube Kids settings including content levels, search controls, and timer features to help parents manage their child's viewing.
Practical advice for parents on WhatsApp group chats, privacy settings, and helping children manage messaging safely.
What parents need to know about Telegram's channels, secret chats, and self-destructing messages — and how to keep children safe.
A parent's guide to Twitch live streaming, chat safety, donations, and how to protect your child on the platform.
How to set up Facebook Messenger safely for your child, including privacy controls and Messenger Kids as an alternative.
A parent's guide to Fortnite, including voice chat, in-game spending, and Epic Games' parental control settings.
A parent's guide to keeping children safe while playing Minecraft online, including server safety, chat settings, and age-appropriate configuration.
A comparative safety overview of the most popular group chat and messaging apps used by children, including WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord, and Telegram.
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.
Safety considerations for Apple's iMessage, including group chats, photo sharing, and parental oversight.
Safety guidance for Apple's FaceTime video calling, including who can contact your child and group call risks.
Understanding Reddit's risks for young people, including content exposure, anonymity, and community dynamics.
Safety guidance for AI companion apps and chatbots that children and teenagers are increasingly using.
Safety guidance on apps designed to help young people meet new people online, and why they carry elevated risks.
Why Omegle and random video chat sites are fundamentally unsafe for children, and how to block access and discuss the risks.
What parents need to know about Kik Messenger, including its anonymity features, grooming risks, and why it is not suitable for children under 16.
A parent's guide to X (formerly Twitter), covering content risks, privacy settings, and how to help your child use the platform more safely.
A parent's guide to BeReal, covering location data, privacy settings, and what makes this app lower risk but not risk-free.
Safety guidance for children using Meta Quest and other VR headsets, covering social interactions, content risks, and parental controls.
A practical guide for parents on ChatGPT — what it is, how children use it, and how to set appropriate boundaries around AI chatbot use.
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.
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.
An honest guide for parents about Character.AI — the AI companion app with documented serious harms for children — including what steps the company has taken and what parents must know.
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.
What parents need to know about Spotify — including explicit music and podcast content, social listening features, and the lack of built-in parental controls.
How to set up Netflix parental controls, create a kids profile, use PIN locks, and manage what your child watches on the platform.
How to set up Amazon Prime Video parental controls — including profiles, PIN locks, purchase restrictions, and content ratings — to manage what your child watches.
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.
What parents need to know about Pinterest — image sharing, mood boards, and the risks of body image content, harmful trends, and scams.
Everything parents need to know about CapCut — TikTok's video editing app — including data collection concerns, deepfake risks, and age considerations.
A parent's guide to Steam — the world's largest PC gaming platform — including community chat risks, profile safety, and adult content mods.
A complete guide to Epic Games — home of Fortnite — including the friend system, voice chat, V-Bucks spending, and parental controls.
What parents need to know about EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA) — including loot boxes, Ultimate Team gambling mechanics, online chat, and spending risks.
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.
What parents need to know about VRChat — a virtual reality social platform with significant risks from stranger contact, harassment, and immersive environments.
An urgent parent's guide to Yubo — a high-risk friend-making and livestreaming app popular with teenagers that has significant concerns around stranger contact and location.
A balanced guide to Signal for parents — understanding end-to-end encryption, privacy benefits, and the challenges for parental oversight.
What parents need to know about Zoom — video call safety, meeting link risks, recording concerns, and settings for safer use with children.
A guide for parents whose children use Microsoft Teams for school — understanding chat, file sharing, and how to identify potential misuse.
What parents need to know about Kick — a livestreaming platform with minimal moderation, adult content, and significant risks for younger viewers.
What parents need to know about Vinted — a second-hand clothing resale app officially for adults — including scams, address sharing, and stranger messaging.
A guide for parents on Depop — a second-hand fashion resale app popular with teenagers — including scam risks, address sharing, and image-based concerns.
What parents need to know about eBay — scam risks for young sellers, address privacy, account security, and safe online marketplace habits.
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.
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.
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.
What parents need to know about Threads, Meta's text-based social app linked to Instagram, including privacy, content discovery, and adult-topic exposure.
A practical guide to Wattpad's community fiction platform, including mature content, in-comment grooming risks, and age-gating bypass.
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.
A practical guide to Pokemon GO's location-based AR play, including raid meet-ups, PokeStop congregation points, and in-app purchases.
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.
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.
What parents need to know about Mastodon, the federated social network where the choice of server (instance) shapes the entire safety experience.
What parents need to know about Strava, the activity-tracking app, including heatmaps, running routes, location leakage, Privacy Zones, and Athlete Privacy Controls.
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.
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.
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.
What parents need to know about Tumblr, the resurgent fandom platform, including mature-content settings, AI-generated image floods, and the ask-anonymously feature.