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Tag: google

How to filter bad content and set time limits to Y...

Learn how to enable YouTube’s filter for bad content, set time limits with Boomerang and review viewed history from your child’s Android device. Google’s recent announcement of upcoming filters for their YouTube platform is great but parents can already set …

Why Prevent Uninstall is important for parental co...

Parents don’t forget the training wheels Parental Controls have become an important toolkit in keeping track of what our kids do on their mobile devices. Kids are receiving tablets as early as toddlers and phones as early as …

Is Google Evil? Our unjustified removal from Googl...

Last updated: August 6th, 2020 – 5:12pm PST Google Play removes Boomerang Parental Control – I share our recent experience dealing with Google’s Appeals team. About us We are a team of three Dads with the combined goal of …

How to Monitor Calls & Text Messages on Andro...

Monitoring child mobile devices is an important step in parenting today and how our kids communicate is quite different than how we did growing up (remember the one corded telephone in the middle of the living room where anyone …

Boomerang Parental Control vs. Google’s Fami...

Interested in trying out Boomerang Parental Control? If Google’s Family Link is already installed on your child’s Android device, here are a few tips and clarifications in order to have the best experience with Boomerang Parental Control. We also cover the differences …

Boomerang vs. Google RE: Call and SMS permissions

The good news We can continue to offer our Call and Text Message safety features, and all of our other features, via an easy and safe download on our website. This change is thanks to Google changing their policy for …

Google wants to shut down our safe calling & ...

Update #2: We now offer a full version of Boomerang with all our popular features – download here. Download today and sideload to you child’s device (it will update your Google Play version too!). Update #1: We received confirmation from …

Boomerang now has Daily App Limits & Apple Ne...

Hi! This is a huge update for Boomerang which adds a heavily requested feature: Daily App Timer, a further daily limit for specific apps. We also have some bad news for our iOS users thanks to Apple. Scroll on… Per …

2 Apps – Parental Controls and Safe Browser ...

There are not many apps that offer a rich and powerful offering for parents trying to keep tabs on their child’s technology use, Boomerang Parental Control and SPIN Safe Browser can and do. This post explains the differences …