Open your settings
Safety and privacy controls live together in one place.
Safety & privacy
Set it up together.
Tools that let parents and teens agree on time limits, contact settings and content preferences — visible to both sides.
Parent & teen controls
Key capabilities
What Parent & teen controls gives you
Guidance and limits for families.
Linked parent and teen accounts
Time and usage limits
Contact and content settings
Shared visibility of changes
How it works
Using Parent & teen controls on Howdy
Choose your level
Pick who can reach you and what you'd rather not see.
Act when you need to
Block, mute or report in a couple of taps.
Review any time
Change your mind whenever you like — nothing is locked in.
Benefits
Why people use it
Built on agreement
Both sides can see the settings in place.
Flexible
Adjust as your teen gets older.
Conversation-friendly
Designed to be set up together, not imposed.
Use cases
- First phone
- Screen-time agreements
- Family safety check-ins
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