Vodafone Apps

Vodafone Apps

Introducing the Vodafone apps

Vodafone has launched two apps to protect children and young people and to empower and inform parents as smartphones play an increasingly important role in how families manage their daily lives.

Vodafone Guardian

The new Vodafone Guardian app helps to keep children safer when using a smartphone.

As part of Vodafone’s commitment to supporting parents in encouraging their children’s safe and responsible use of digital technology, it has launched the Vodafone Guardian app for use on a range of Android devices.

Vodafone Guardian helps parents to manage their child’s smartphone by providing protection from inappropriate calls, messages and online content.

Vodafone Guardian

The app enables parents to:

  • Block specific contacts or mobile phone numbers to prevent bullying text messages or calls
  • Transfer bullying text messages to a secure folder on the phone that could be used as evidence with the child’s school or the police
  • Restrict outgoing calls to named contacts, such as Mum, Dad or specific friends
  • Specify times during which their child can make or receive calls, use apps, access the Web and use the camera

Vodafone Guardian is available to download for free from the Vodafone AppSelect store and Android Market.

Find out more about Vodafone Guardian in our How To guide.

Vodafone Guardian has been developed by the Vodafone Foundation (registered charity no. 1089625) as part of its Mobiles for Good programme.

Vodafone also provides Content Control that help prevent access to age-sensitive content and services on mobile phones, such as those rated 18. You can find out more about Vodafone Content Control in our How To guide.

Vodafone Digital Parenting

Perhaps you’re feeling confused by your child’s digital world? Or wondering where you can go for information and advice about digital challenges, such as how your child can manage their online reputation? Vodafone Digital Parenting can help.

The Vodafone Digital Parenting app aims to help parents get to grips with some of the digital devices and services their children enjoy, such as Facebook®, Google and smartphones, and to get more involved in their digital world. It is available on a range of Android devices and provides a selection of articles from our Digital Parenting magazine.

Vodafone Digital Parenting

The app includes:

  • An overview of some of the technologies young people use at different ages
  • Information and advice about important issues, such as managing online reputation, mobile costs and sexting
  • A series of ‘How To’ guides to help parents make the most of privacy tools and parental controls on Facebook®, Google, Microsoft and Vodafone
  • A ‘How To’ guide for the Vodafone Guardian app, which helps to keep children safer when using a smartphone
  • A selection of videos about digital parenting

Vodafone Digital Parenting is available to download for free from the Vodafone AppSelect store and Android Market.

Supported handsets

  • HTC Desire
  • HTC Desire HD
  • HTC Explorer
  • HTC Magic
  • HTC Sensation (Z710e)
  • HTC Tattoo
  • HTC Wildfire
  • HTC Wildfire (A3333)
  • Huawei U8150 IDEOS
  • Huawei Vodafone 845
  • Samsung Galaxy 3 (GT-i5800)
  • Samsung Galaxy Europa (GT-i5500)
  • Samsung Galaxy Gio (S5660)
  • Samsung Galaxy Mini (S5570)
  • Samsung Galaxy S (GTi9000)
  • Samsung Ace (GT-S5830)
  • Sony Ericsson Arc
  • Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro
  • Sony Ericsson X10i
  • Sony Ericsson Xperia X8

Please note that the apps may not work on other devices.

How old are your kids?

What you need to know to get started

  • 5-7 years old

    Technology is part of your child's life before they start primary school. They're probably using the computer, the internet and interactive TV for fun - watching programmes on the CBeebies channel and website or taking part in the Club Penguin chat rooms...but they still need adult guidance and supervision.

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  • 8-11 years old

    If you have 8-11 year old children, your house is probably full of technology - PlayStation, Nintendo, iPod...the list goes on. In fact, research shows that 8-11 year olds in the UK have an average of four media devices in their bedroom.

    This is a crucial age for young people to embrace new technologies and develop their ICT skills both at home and at school...and it's a crucial time for you to take control when they start exploring the digital world as well as the real world.

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  • 12-14 years old

    They're at secondary school and growing up fast. It's a time of change and their digital world might seem as important as the real world to them. They might spend their evenings on Bebo, Facebook or MySpace ; watching videos on YouTube and uploading their own for others to watch; or doing research for their homework.

    You want to encourage their technology and social skills, of course, so it's useful to understand what they're doing with technology and to get involved with it.

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  • 15+ years old

    Once your children are teenagers, it might be tempting to think that they're tech-savvy and dealing with everything the virtual world can throw at them. You probably watch in awe as they switch from chatting with friends on Facebook to updating their Twitter profile; playing against someone on the other side of the world on their games console to downloading music on their mobile.

    It's all great fun but, as they get older, the things you need to help them to cope with in their digital world are ever more challenging. Far from leaving them to it, you really need to keep communicating with them.

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