Maybe your teen is turning their device off or moving it away from your sight when you enter the room or come near, or perhaps they’re reluctant to hand over their phone for you to take a look. If you don’t already use a tool, like Net Nanny, that alerts you to activity on your child’s mobile device, you’ll need to go with your gut on this.
Many parents may wonder how and when to check to see if their child has a vault app hidden (in plain sight) on their phone. We’re going to talk about some of the most popular vault apps available today, how they work, and how you can detect them. Now that we’re in the technological age, digital files hold secrets, and vault apps hide those secrets from prying eyes. In the “olden days” (read: our youth), kids kept their most personal secrets with a whisper of a pen, safeguarded by a built-in miniature padlock, standard issue for private paper diaries.īut let’s be honest, those locks were easily circumvented, often with a paperclip or a bobby pin, should parents (or nosy siblings) have a gut feeling that there was something “juicy” hidden inside.
