8. Children's phones and tablets

At home, Warda filters every device that asks it. Away from your Wi-Fi, or with its own mobile data, a phone asks another DNS and Warda sees nothing, unless it is enrolled in the protection outside the home (chapter 11): it then keeps its hours and its protections everywhere. The tools of the phone itself apply everywhere too; use both.

Android phone or tablet#

1. On your own phone, install Google Family Link and supervise the Google account of your child.
2. In Family Link, set the daily limit and the downtime (the night), approve the applications installed, and turn on the content filters of Google Play and Chrome.
3. On the child's phone, open Settings → Network & internet → Private DNS (on some brands: Connections → More connection settings): choose Off or Automatic. A named provider (for example dns.google) goes around Warda at home; check it from time to time.

iPhone or iPad#

1. Add your child to your Family Sharing and turn on Ask to Buy: no application, VPN included, is installed without you.
2. In Settings → Screen Time → the name of your child, set a Screen Time passcode, the Downtime, the App Limits and the Content & Privacy Restrictions.
3. In Content & Privacy Restrictions, under the changes allowed, choose Don't Allow for the passcode, the account and the Cellular Data changes.
4. iCloud Private Relay is turned off by Warda for the children's devices at home: Safari then asks Warda.

Other devices#

A tablet without SIM card is protected at home like a phone; outside, only its own settings apply, unless it is enrolled in the protection outside the home (chapter 11), like a laptop. Game consoles and computers have their own parental controls (Xbox Family, PlayStation Family, Nintendo Switch Parental Controls, Microsoft Family Safety): set them too.

Add http://warda/ask to the home screen of your child's phone: that is where they ask for more time at home.

Mobile data at home and connection sharing#

At home, a child can turn the Wi-Fi off and use the mobile data of the phone, or share that connection (hotspot) with a tablet or a console: these devices then leave your network, and Warda. With the protection outside the home (chapter 11, subscription, open to everyone until subscriptions open):

• an enrolled phone stays filtered on mobile data, and an enrolled laptop on the hotspot of a phone: their own queries still come to the box;
• mobile data at home: when an enrolled device of a child asks from outside less than 15 minutes after it was on your network, Protection → Alerts (group Bypass) and the page Household → Outside the home (Mobile data at home) say so. Warda cannot tell "on mobile data at home" from "just gone out": the notice says both;
• probable connection sharing: if, in the 2 minutes after, another device of the same child, or the device of a child that is not enrolled, stops asking Warda, it has probably moved to the shared connection, where it is not filtered.

The limits, honestly: it is a probability, not a proof (a device that falls asleep or is switched off at that moment looks the same); a device that was not asking Warda just before, or the device of a friend, is not seen; a device that is not enrolled is told, not filtered; the devices of adults are never watched. To close the gap, enrol the devices of the child, and on an iPhone forbid the changes of Cellular Data (above).