Can I lock my child's iPhone from an Android phone?

Yes, through SimpleSentinel's web page: an invited adult on any phone with a browser, Android included, can pause the child's iPhone, answer today's asks and message them, with no app and no Apple account. One parent in the family needs an iPhone to set the rules up; the parent app is iPhone only.

Apple's own Screen Time cannot do this at all; Family Sharing needs an Apple device for the organizer. So the honest shape is one iPhone admin, and everyone else on the web page: a co-parent on Android, a grandparent, a sitter. Child phones must be iPhones or iPads; an Android child phone cannot be managed.

One price, unlimited children and devices. 7-day free trial, billed by Apple.

What the web page can do, what it cannot, and how to set it up

What the web page can do

The iPhone parent invites an adult with a personal link. On any phone with a browser, Android included, that adult opens the link, enters the last four digits you gave them, and sees the children you chose. From there, by the permissions you set: pause a child's phone and resume it, answer today's asks (a site, an app, more time), send a message, check off a chore. It needs no app, no Apple account and no password to remember. Each sign-in lasts until 11:59 PM, then the link asks for the digits again.

What it cannot do

The web page is for today, not for settings. It cannot make a permanent allow, change a downtime window, add or remove a chore, change the web lists, or approve a delete. Those live on the iPhone admin's phone. A co-parent who wants the whole set of controls needs an iPhone or an iPad with the parent app; an Android phone gets the day-to-day and nothing it could break. That is on purpose: a sitter should be able to pause, not to rewrite the rules.

Setting it up

On the iPhone: Manage, Sitters, invite, pick the children and the permissions, choose always-on or a schedule, and send the link. On the Android phone: open the link in Chrome, enter the digits, and tap the menu, Add to Home Screen, so it opens like an app. Two households: each parent can be a sitter in the other's family with their own link, or one iPhone parent runs the family and the other gets the page. Activate and deactivate a sitter at will; the daily summary tells you what they did.

✓ Sitters

"It takes a village." Invite a sitter with a personal link that works on any phone. Activate them or deactivate them at will or on a schedule. You decide what they see, when they can see it, and what they can do.

Pricing

Founding Family (First 1,000 Families)

7-day free trial. Unlimited children and devices.

$9.99/mo

or $99.99/yr

  • About 28 cents/day for every device & child.

  • Your price never goes up as long as you stay subscribed.

Regular Price

7-day free trial. Unlimited children and devices.

$16.99/mo

or $149.99/yr

  • About 41 cents/day for every device & child.

  • Compare to A locked-down phone @ $1,000/yr per child.

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