I’m looking for something that actually works well for Snapchat in particular, since it’s pretty hard to monitor. The built-in iPhone screen time limits don’t really cover the content, just the app use. Does anyone have a specific app or setting that’s been effective for them?
Yeah Snapchat is genuinely the trickiest one because of the disappearing content - no monitoring app I’ve seen can reliably read actual Snap messages without it being super janky or requiring constant physical access to the phone.
Honestly the most reliable approaches are either using a shared Apple Family Sharing setup to just block Snapchat entirely, or if your kid’s cool with it, having them on an account where you know the login (not sneaky, just agreed-upon).
Some parents here swear by Bark for Snapchat since it catches red-flag keywords via account linking rather than trying to screenshot everything, which is probably the most realistic “content awareness” option without going full surveillance mode.