Bullies are no longer confined to the school playground: nowadays, 56% of all bullying occurs through texts and messaging apps. Keeping an eye on your kids’ messages is therefore increasingly important, but can be difficult when your kids are sending and receiving so many texts each day. Qustodio’s new message alerts are here to help: they’ll let you know immediately if there’s something you need to be aware of.
About message alerts
This brand new feature will send you an email and a push notification straight away if your child sends or receives a concerning text. Covering SMS and iMessage, Qustodio’s advanced AI technology is able to detect over 20 types of threats, from bullying and self harm to school absences and health worries. As well as being able to tackle any problems as soon as they arise, this also means you can give your child more privacy if you want to, by just checking their concerning texts rather than reading every single one.
How it works
Message alerts are available for all Premium Complete subscribers and activating them is easy. If your child uses an Android device, you just need to make sure that you’ve installed the full version of the Kids App from the Qustodio website (the one from the Google Play Store doesn’t allow SMS monitoring). If your child uses an iPhone, then install the Calls & messages app on your own computer.
Once you’ve done that, message alerts will be switched on automatically! To turn the alerts on and off, go to the Alerts section in your child’s calls & messages rules page. Note that turning them off will stop you from receiving notifications, but you’ll continue to see concerning conversations highlighted in your child’s activity timeline.
We hope that this new feature brings you peace of mind when it comes to your child’s texting habits, and helps you open up conversations at the right time.
