The Apps your Children don’t tell you about: Uncovering your Child’s Secret Life
More commonly in private investigative work we receive questions about “hacking” or “cloning” devices. The majority of these requests come from parents desperate for a look into their children’s life. Most parents do not have the ability or the knowledge to find the hidden tricks our Gen-Z children come up with. This generation of children are brilliant in technology, but sneaky and parents who grew up being told “Come home before sunset” or “Go play outside” aren’t always particularly weary of most of what goes on in their own child’s phone. Most kids nowadays are sewn with an Iphone or Ipad at birth.
Most parents are at a disadvantage not having full access to their kids’ devices 24/7. Teenagers usually use their devices anywhere else, but in front of you. By the time you ask to see their phone they have deleted chat room apps, dating apps, social media, private photo album apps, and to a parents worst nightmare explicit photos of their child. In our line of work it is incredibly difficult to inform a parent that their child may currently be a victim of an online child predator. We want to use our platform as an agency being open for almost 20 years to help you save your child from the trauma and dangerous path this secret life can create.
4 tips for finding deleted apps or secret photos on your child’s Iphone
- First, go to your child’s device and view their app store application. Next, click on the personal icon on the top right corner. Then, click on “Purchased”. You will be able to see any apps that have been downloaded through their Apple ID on any device that Apple ID is logged into. You will also be able to see when the app was downloaded to know how recent it was deleted.
- Apps such as KeepSafe are known as a secret photo vault. They can store photos here and lock them in albums with a passcode. Apps like these can also have a camouflage of calculators on them. It is to deter parents or unwanted users from clicking on the application. Note this for your search into your child’s phone.
- Some parents have access to their childs Instagram. If you do Click settings, then security, finally download data. Once you do this you can enter your personal email and have a copy of all the data on that account. Any messages they may have “deleted” before you took their phone will be included. Instagram stores every single message in their data collection and provides files with each instagram user’s message thread.
- This one is for the parents who don’t have the first clue about passwords on their child’s phone or even their own. Apple saves all passwords through a setting called keychain. More than likely the child has saved all their passwords attached to fake email addresses that you can now have access to.