Android or Apple? Experts recommend this type of phone when it comes to protecting children - FOX 13 Tampa

TAMPA, Fla. - Many parents whitethorn beryllium contemplating gifting their children compartment phones this year, but privation to marque definite they take the champion 1 erstwhile it comes to safety.

Ten-year-old Abby Langford knows determination won't beryllium a compartment telephone nether the histrion for her this year. For now, games connected her mom's iPad volition person to do.

"Parenting successful the tech satellite with the exertion and having kids astatine each antithetic levels is daunting," explained her mother, Marisa Langford.

Marisa Langford has been down this roadworthy earlier with 3 teenagers who present each person compartment phones. She says Abby volition person to hold until eighth grade, similar her siblings. Years of acquisition taught her determination is bully crushed to wait.

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"New apps popular up. New landmines popular up and you request to beryllium prepared to marque definite your kids are harmless online due to the fact that that’s my biggest occupation arsenic a parent," she stated.

But does the benignant of telephone marque a quality successful protecting our children?

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Safewise tech reporter, Rebecca Edwards, says astir parents volition beryllium deciding betwixt the large two: Android and Apple. It's a prime she had to marque with her ain children.

"If I had it to bash implicit again, I would get my kids Android devices," she said.

Edwards admits Apple is unafraid and protects idiosyncratic information precise well, however, those aren't the salient online threats to children.

She says the champion mode to show what's happening successful cyberspace is by utilizing a third-party parental power app.

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"Third-party apps are your champion stake for the strongest and astir robust parental controls retired there. Because Android is an open-source, determination are a batch of third-party apps that enactment good with android, but iOS is not the same," she explained.

A bully app tin way GPS, artifact content, and adjacent bounds who tin telephone oregon substance a peculiar phone. Edwards besides says Android devices simply let these apps to amended bash their jobs.

"The options that you person erstwhile installing connected an iOS instrumentality are precise minimal, you truly person to trust connected what Apple is giving you if you truly privation to fastener down what’s happening to your kid connected a phone," she stated.

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Even Bark, 1 of the astir downloaded and reliable parents’ apps, recommends parents usage Android devices to champion show their kids.

But nary substance which way you go, Marisa Langford says an app can't bash everything. Parents indispensable beryllium proactive.

"For the parents who mightiness beryllium turning a unsighted oculus to what their kids are doing portion they are successful their rooms by themselves, you bash permission yourself truly unfastened and susceptible for thing to hap down those doors," Edwards said.