According to a 2024 survey of parents in the United Kingdom, around ** percent of parents reportedusing any of the mentioned technical tools or controls to monitor their child's online activity. In particular, ** percent of them use parental controls built into the device by the phone manufacturer.聽
UK parents vs. apps
As an estimated ** percent of children's apps available to UK users transmit GPS location or IP address to advertisers and/or data brokers, parents have reason to concern themselves with monitoring their kids' mobile usage. According to research conducted at the beginning of 2023, ** percent of apps in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store collected persistent identifiers. Additionally, ** percent of TikTok users aged between 13 and 17 years had experienced anonymous trolling in the past month, as well as being exposed to sexualized images on the popular short-video platform, according to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2022.
Not just monitoring: apps for parents cover several needs
In the first half of 2022, there were around ***apps available to UK children, but only approximately *** apps designed for parents. Approximately ** of these were apps to help babies sleep, ** were apps designed to track babies' rhythms, and only **apps available to UK parents were designed to keep and edit babies' photos. Despite their limited availability, baby photo apps for parents generated ***thousand downloads in the first half of 2022, while fertility tracking apps generated **** million downloads among UK users in the same period.
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