What’s the best way to restrict my Android devices to only use approved apps? I want to manage the whitelist remotely.

Bonus points if I can keep everything in-house, on my home server or similar via my existing VPN.

This is for my kids’ future phones. Ages 12 to 16.

  • Nurgus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Good suggestions but I’m not convinced that’s true.

    It’s certainly possible to lock some Android devices down hard without rooting them. See Samsung Knox as an example. Even a pro will have a hard time getting around that.

    I trust my kids to mostly only use the devices how I say. The security is mainly to keep their mum happy and to keep them from spur of the moment bad descisions with their clicks and time.

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      I trust my kids to mostly only use the devices how I say. The security is mainly to keep their mum happy

      It sounds like you should simply trust your kids and convince your better half that she should do the same.

      • Nurgus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        No, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have a technical level of control over young kids devices in partnership with close supervision. It’s that or no phones until they’re 16.