Norton Parental Control

Norton Parental Control includes a number of online family safety tools for filtering and limit setting. It gives you filtering tools to block inappropriate content so your children can visit websites, watch videos, and use mobile apps within safe boundaries.^8,10 It lets you view reports on your kids’ online behavior, and can help your kids avoid giving out personal information online. Norton Parental Control allows you to set limits on screen time, and monitor your kids’ online behavior, so you can help keep them safe from dangers in the digital world.¹¹

Features included in Norton Parental Control include:      

• Apps: Norton Parental Control enables you to view and manage the Android apps your kids use.¹⁰
• Content filtering: Block content you don’t want your kids to view online, either by topic or with a set of rules by your child’s age.
• Videos: See what YouTube.com videos your kids watch.⁸
• Browsing: See what your kids search for, what websites they visit, and block unsuitable sites.
• Location: View a map of your child’s mobile device location history.^{9,10, ‡‡}
• Ease of use: Navigate all these features in an easy-to-use app or web portal.

Norton Parental Control includes tools for all the above features and more.

Mobile apps can be educational, fun, and useful for both kids and adults. However, there are likely apps you don’t want your kids using, even if the app store rating suggests it is suitable for their age. Additionally, apps can come with malware or privacy risks. Norton Parental Control enables you to monitor your child’s apps on Android devices and choose which ones they can use. For apps that you don’t think they’re quite ready to use yet, you can put restrictions in place to help your kids have a safe and healthy experience with mobile apps.

Kids love YouTube.com videos. For parents, YouTube.com videos can be a helpful tool to keep kids occupied when needed. It can also be difficult to pull kids away from fun, visually engaging videos. You may also worry about what videos your kids might accidentally stumble upon and watch, like content that’s not age-appropriate. Norton Parental Control enables you to see all the videos your kids have watched on YouTube.com, on Windows, Android, and iOS. Norton Parental Control also enables you to set time limits and pause your kids’ device use so they have time away from YouTube.com, too.

Without online family safety apps that can help filter content on the internet, children can browse the web freely, and there’s a lot on the web that may not be age-appropriate. Norton Parental Control gives parents tools to block certain websites and content topics while allowing children to browse the rest of the web more safely. With Norton Parental Control, you can choose to block particular sites completely, or give your child a warning when they try to visit certain sites, but still enable them to browse after the warning. For topic filtering, you can choose pre-defined settings for a specific age range or choose from a list of topics that you want to block, topics like violence or drugs. If your kids try to navigate to a blocked site, you get an email alert. Kids can also submit access requests to you for websites they would like to visit, giving them a way to ask you for permission to view it.¹⁴ You can also get a regular report that tells you what sites your kids have visited during a particular time period.

You also want to know what your kids are searching for online. Norton Parental Control provides parents with reports on the search terms their kids look for, so you know when it might be time to adjust the blocked content settings or have a talk with them about a particular subject.

Limiting kids’ screen time can often be a challenge. There are so many activities for kids to do online, and many of them are worthwhile, but sometimes it’s time for them to take a break. Solutions for limiting your children’s screen time include:¹¹

• Setting a timer or regular schedule for device use.
• Instantly locking a child’s device when it’s time to take a break.
• Getting regular reports on how much time your children spend on their devices.

Norton Parental Control enables you to do all three. For each child, you can set a regular weekly schedule for what days and times they can use their devices. If you want to put an instant lock on a child’s device when it’s time to take a break and do other things, you can do that as well. You also get regular reports on your children’s time on their devices, so you can monitor and set limits to help your children develop healthy screen time habits.

To set up Norton Parental Control, you start by adding each child and their devices to your account. For each child, you then go through each section to select the settings or “House Rules” that you want for each child’s device. This includes:

• Web: Choose how you supervise web activity and which topics you want to block.
• Location: See where your kids’ Android or iOS devices are on a map, including a 30-day location history.^9,10,‡‡
• Search: See the terms your kids are searching the web for.
• Time: Set schedules for device use, including specific times of the day and how much total time they can use.¹¹
• Video: See what videos your kids have watched on YouTube.com, and watch a snippet of each.⁸
• App: See which apps your kids have downloaded on Android and choose which ones they can use.¹⁰

Once set up, you will start to receive notifications on your child’s activity related to the House Rules. Your child can also view their list of House Rules, and submit requests to you through the app.¹⁴ You’ll get regular reports on your kids’ online behavior and can view and manage all your kids’ rules in the Norton Parental Control easy-to-use app or web portal.