A source-backed reference for parents of children aged 6 to 16 on screens, privacy, and risk on iOS, Android, and connected devices.
Emergency
If a child is in immediate danger — contact has already happened, sextortion is underway, a self-harm risk is real — a setting on the device is the wrong next step. The four things that matter right now:
The situation. Something happened that you cannot undo from inside the parental-control app. The device’s restrictions did not prevent it, and changing them now will not undo it.
The immediate action. Stay with the child. Keep evidence: URLs, timestamps, screenshots where lawful. Do not delete messages; the platforms need them. Do not confront the other party alone.
The limit of technology. At this point, no setting on the device helps. Screen-Time limits, Family Link, content filters, VPNs, and DNS blocks do not stop an active groomer, an active self-harm risk, or an active extortion. They are not the right tool for this hour.
The regional help path. The numbers documented in this wiki, today: 112 for the EU (most), 999 for the UK. Verify with the official source before relying on either — they may have changed, and other jurisdictions are not yet listed here. Full detail on Emergency hotlines.
Open gap (reported in the final report): beyond EU-wide (112) and UK (999), no other number is documented. US 911, Germany 110/112, Switzerland 144, Austria 144 are all not cited in either Wiki/de/emergency-hotlines.md or Wiki/en/emergency-hotlines.md — the injector invents nothing.
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When you need something other than an explanation:
- Glossary — terms a parent is likely to meet here,
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mt-draft. - Sources — every external reference, with the registry that classifies it.
Definition
The wiki itself: a source-backed reference for parents of children aged 6 to 16 — covering screens, privacy, and risk on iOS and Android.
Scope
Not a product review, not a parental-control app, not legal advice. Each article cites its sources, names its jurisdiction, and tells you when a fact was last verified.
About this wiki
A source-backed reference for parents of children aged 6 to 16, covering screens, privacy, and risk on iOS, Android, and connected devices. Not a product review, not a parental-control app, not legal advice. Every article cites its sources, names its jurisdiction, and tells you when it was last verified.
How to read this
Every article carries the date it was last verified and the OS
version it was tested against. The localization classes —
universal, localized, jurisdictional — control how a page is
translated. Jurisdiction is not the same as language: a German
page may still apply to Germany only. The expiration contract is
documented in docs/architecture.md §8.4; pages that have missed
their re-check show a visible warning.
[source: apple-screen-time] [source: wirecutter-parental-controls] [source: consumer-ftc-parental-controls]