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Why this matters:Articles grouped by age band: children of the same age can be at very different stages; this lens picks what is typical for a band, not what is true for any single child.
By age: 13-15 — 49 articles
Articles
- Accounts, age limits and what a birthday changes
- Age limits are social consensus, not a technical lock
- Alternative app distribution in the EU and what it means for Screen Time
- Alternative app stores and what they change
- Ask to Buy and family purchases on Apple devices
- Communication Safety on Apple devices and what it scans
- Consoles and Steam: parental controls across Nintendo, PlayStation, and Steam
- DNS filtering and its limits
- Does any of this actually work? What the evidence says
- Emergency hotlines
- Encrypted DNS and what parents see
- Factory reset, recovery, and the unhappier bypasses
- Family Sharing: what a child can change, and what you see
- Google account age and what changes on a birthday
- How age checks work — and how well
- Jailbreak on iPhone and what it defeats
- MAC randomisation breaks device rules
- Making Screen Time settings stick
- MDM profiles and Apple Configurator for parental control
- Play Store purchases and approvals on Android
- Play, AppGallery, sideloading, and where the controls stop
- Purchases, gift cards and consoles
- Reading your child's Screen Time report
- Reporting illegal content
- Reporting paths: who to contact where
- Reporting: what happens after you tap the button
- School devices and what parents do not control
- Screen distance, eyes, and what the device can measure
- Screens and sleep: what is actually established
- Set up Family Link on Android
- Set up Screen Time on iPhone
- Settings inside the apps themselves
- Talking about it without turning it into surveillance
- The 4Cs of online risk: Content, Contact, Conduct, Contract
- The first week with a new device
- The network layer: router, DNS and their limits
- Video that appears where you did not expect it
- VPN and proxy on a child's device
- What actually works instead of blocking
- What Family Link cannot do on Android
- What the evidence says about age verification
- What the major guidelines agree on — and where they disagree
- What the network layer cannot do
- When a setting stops working: a safe check
- When it involves school or other families
- Where to get help — beyond the emergency numbers
- Why Roblox, Discord and YouTube are hard to block
- Why router rules miss the phone
- Why the same Android article reads differently on Samsung, Xiaomi, and Huawei