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Parental controls by phone
What works and what does not on an iPhone, an Android phone, a Samsung and a Chromebook, said plainly, so you know before you start.
Parental controls on a Chromebook (2026)
Family Link supervision, the Chromebook settings parents miss, and what a safety app can and cannot do there — including why location is a phone job.
Parental controls on a Samsung phone (2026)
Samsung Kids, Digital Wellbeing and Family Link, plus the three Samsung settings — battery, notifications and locked-screen ringing — that break parental apps.
Parental controls on an Android phone (2026)
Family Link, Digital Wellbeing and the exact menu paths on Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo, plus the one battery setting that quietly switches controls off.
Parental controls on an iPhone (2026): what a parent can and cannot do
Everything Apple's Screen Time can do on a child's iPhone, with the exact menu paths, what an app adds on top, and the one thing no app can do on iOS.