Kaspersky Safe Kids for Android/iOS overview

What's new

This Help is applicable to Kaspersky Safe Kids for Android 1.26.0.XXX and to Kaspersky Safe Kids for iOS 1.38.0.XXX.

Kaspersky Safe Kids offers the following new features and improvements:

• Support for Android 10.
• Support for iOS 13.
• App Control is back on iOS. You can continue to control and restrict applications by age. Just update Kaspersky Safe Kids on the child's iOS device, and then follow the instructions.
• General bug fixes and improvements.

About Kaspersky Safe Kids solution

Kaspersky Safe Kids monitors your children's safety on the Internet and in daily life. You decide what is safe for your children: what websites they can visit, how far away from home they can walk, and how many hours they can spend using the computer or smartphone. The application ensures that your children follow the rules you have set.

Kaspersky Safe Kids is suitable for children of any age. When you specify the child's birth year in Kaspersky Safe Kids, the application automatically chooses settings appropriate for that age.

When your children surf the Internet, Kaspersky Safe Kids helps you:

• Show your children only safe Internet search results. For example, Kaspersky Safe Kids hides pages with adult content.
• Stop your children from visiting unsafe websites by restricting a specific category (such as gambling websites).
• Find out what websites your children have visited.
• Learn about your children's social networks posts and the friends your children communicate with.
• Help your children spend less time on the Internet by setting time limits on Internet use
• Block access to all websites, if needed.

When your children spend time on the computer, tablet or smartphone, Kaspersky Safe Kids helps you:

• Learn how much time your children have spent on the devices.
• Help your children spend less time on devices by setting time limits on device use.
• Limit use of specific applications or all applications in a specific category (such as computer games) to help your children make time for homework and other activities.
• Block use of applications that are not age-appropriate for your children.
• Find out who your children communicate with by phone and SMS messages. This feature is only available on Android mobile devices.

When you are not with your children, Kaspersky Safe Kids helps you:

• Check your children's location on a map.
• Set up a safe area on a map and receive notifications if your children go outside the safe area.
• Receive alerts about the children's activity by email or notifications on your smartphone.
• Receive and answer requests made by your children via Kaspersky Safe Kids.

Kaspersky Safe Kids can be installed on Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices.

To monitor your children's safety, install Kaspersky Safe Kids on each device they use.

Kaspersky Safe Kids settings

You change Kaspersky Safe Kids default settings and view reports about your children's activity in the Kids section on

My Kaspersky

My Kaspersky is an online hub where you can:

• Remotely manage AO Kaspersky Lab applications installed on your devices.
• View licenses and license periods.
• Remotely lock and locate a mobile device and protect personal data if a device gets lost or stolen.
• Protect your children against dangers associated with using apps and the Internet.
• Safely view your website passwords or bank card details.
• Get technical support.

You can sign in to My Kaspersky in any of the following ways:

• Create an account (on the My Kaspersky website or directly from compatible applications).
• Use your credentials for other Kaspersky Lab resources.
• Use your Facebook credentials.

For more details, see My Kaspersky help.

My Kaspersky is an online hub where you can:

• Remotely manage AO Kaspersky Lab applications installed on your devices.
• View licenses and license periods.
• Remotely lock and locate a mobile device and protect personal data if a device gets lost or stolen.
• Protect your children against dangers associated with using apps and the Internet.
• Safely view your website passwords or bank card details.
• Get technical support.

You can sign in to My Kaspersky in any of the following ways:

• Create an account (on the My Kaspersky website or directly from compatible applications).
• Use your credentials for other Kaspersky Lab resources.
• Use your Facebook credentials.

For more details, see My Kaspersky help.

My Kaspersky account

A My Kaspersky account is required to sign in to My Kaspersky as well as to use certain Kaspersky Lab applications.

You can create the account when registering on My Kaspersky or directly from the Kaspersky Safe Kids application. This account can also be used to access other Kaspersky Lab resources.

For more details, see My Kaspersky help.

You can also install Kaspersky Safe Kids on your smartphone, set the app for parent's use and check settings, notifications, and reports in the app.

Kaspersky Safe Kids features on Android/iOS

You can install Kaspersky Safe Kids for Android/iOS on the child's mobile device and the parent's mobile device. Mobile devices with Kaspersky Safe Kids installed are automatically connected to the My Kaspersky.

App functions available on your child's device

When Kaspersky Safe Kids is set up on your child's mobile device, it does the following:

• Protects your child against unwanted online content (with Safe browser feature on the child's iOS devices).
• Monitor app usage (for child's Android devices only).
• Locates your child's device in real time.
• Works as a browser for safe Internet surfing. This feature is only available on your child's iOS devices.
• Monitors how long the device is used by your child.

Child protection settings are not available in the app installed on your child's device. You can set up child protection on the My Kaspersky or in the app installed on the parent's device.

App functions available on the parent's device

When Kaspersky Safe Kids is set up on a parent's mobile device, it lets you:

• Check the location of your child's mobile devices on a map and set allowed areas for your child.
• Receive alerts about your child's activity on the device, in apps, and on the Internet.
• Configure Kaspersky Safe Kids protection settings for your child's devices.
• View summary of your child's activities.

All actions available on the parent's mobile device can also be performed on My Kaspersky, where you can also view detailed reports about all of your child's activities on the devices.

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Hardware and software requirements

A device must meet the following requirements to support Kaspersky Safe Kids for Android:

• Device type: smartphone or tablet
• Screen resolution: 320x480 DPI or higher
• Operating system: Android 4.4 and higher
• Internet connection

Kaspersky Safe Kids for Android should be installed in the main memory of the device (not on a removable memory card).

A device must meet the following requirements to support Kaspersky Safe Kids for iOS:

• Device type:
  • iPhone 5 or a newer model
  • iPad 4, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad Pro, or newer models
  • iPod touch 6th generation or a newer model
• Operating system: iOS 10.x and higher
• Internet connection

Manage Kaspersky Safe Kids on My Kaspersky

All Kaspersky Safe Kids settings are managed in the Kids section on the My Kaspersky website. After you change Kaspersky Safe Kids settings, they are synced between the My Kaspersky website and the installations of Kaspersky Safe Kids on your children's devices.

You can review and adjust the following settings on My Kaspersky:

• Add, edit, or delete children's details.
• Restrict access to specific websites and applications.
• Block access to all websites or set up a white list of websites.
• Limit device use time.
• Limit application use time.
• Select a safe area for your child on a map.
• Respond to your child's requests.

You can also monitor your child's activity:

• Locate your child's mobile devices.
• Check your child's social networks posts.
• View daily reports about your child's activity.

About two-step verification

Two-step verification may be unavailable in your region. For more details, see the My Kaspersky help.

Two-step verification prevents bad guys from signing in to your My Kaspersky account even if they know your password. To verify your identity, we also send a unique security code to you via SMS. We use the phone number you save on My Kaspersky. This means that both your password and your phone are needed to sign in to your account.

You can turn on two-step verification on My Kaspersky. If you change your phone number, you can update it on My Kaspersky. If you are already signed in to your account on a device, nothing will change for you. For detailed instructions, see the My Kaspersky help.

The security code sent to your phone number in an SMS message is valid for a short period. If it expires, request another security code.

If you haven't received an SMS message with a security code