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sneak through. In many ways it’s more a feature to
stop your children running up bills through in-app
purchases or installing random apps on your device.
With the release of Android 5.0 (Lollipop), Google
has also created for the fi rst time the option to
create separate profi les on an Android phone. While
this can be useful in short bursts, as you can disable
phone calls and SMS messaging, for example, it’s
not really suitable for children as such, as it doesn’t
let you limit the things they can access online.Child-friendly tablets
There has been a real rise in child-focused tablets
over the past couple of years, so it’s not always
necessary to buy a fully fl edged device and then
try to restrict it. Some newer Android devices we’ve
seen arrive complete with their own suite of parental
controls already installed. The Tesco Hudl 2 features
child safety settings that allow parents to restrict
when their children are allowed to go online, for how
long, and the sites they can see. The Amazon FireHUDL 2 Safety built in