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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 — plus what a safety app adds on an Android phone, and the battery setting that quietly breaks it.
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.