Verizon has long had a parental control service called FamilyBase, but today that is going away. In its place, Verizon is rolling out Smart Family. Information technology works on both iOS and Android to permit parents to rail device location, filter content, and more. The service comes with a monthly fee, but it does wait quite comprehensive.

After setting upward Smart Family unit, you can choose what sort of websites are accessible from your offspring'south device. Verizon says y'all can even cake or let private apps and contacts on the phone. Smart Family includes features to limit not only what the kids exercise on their phone, only how much they tin employ it. Yous tin can fix screen time limits via the parental command app on your phone, or just suspension the internet on your kid's phone. At that place are too time limits on SMS, phone calls, and apps.

Parents take admission to reports on call and text activity, but the location reporting feature will cost extra. The bones Smart Family tools are $4.99 per calendar month. The Smart Family Premium with location tracking is $nine.99 per calendar month. The updated Smart Family app (which replaces FamilyBase) is already live in the Play Store. Verizon offers a 30-solar day gratis trial if you want to give it a shot.

Source: Verizon

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