Managing Your Child’s Safety With Simple Live Monitoring Commands

How often have you thought about having the power to check what your child is doing when they call you to tell you that they will be one to two hours late, and when asked why, they give ambiguous answers with no concrete explanation?

Have you also encountered times when you call your child to ask where they are and why they are not home yet? They take you in circles by giving you very unacceptable answers, such as that they are stuck in a jam or that they encountered a friend.?

These are a few examples of your child’s tardiness. They think they have become too smart to handle you since they have grown up and are now learning more about the world and discovering new ways of life.?

But what if I tell you that there are ways to keep a check on your child and their activities, that you can still know what they are up to even if they don’t tell you so themselves, and that you can still control your child from getting completely out of your hands.?

Introducing You to Live Commands by Parental Monitoring Apps

Let's first understand what parental monitoring apps are.

It is software that you install on your child’s mobile device by allowing certain permissions to monitor your child’s activities and phone data. It does so by deploying various monitoring features, one of which is live commands.

Once you successfully install a Parental Monitoring App on your child’s device, it will automatically monitor all the data on that device and transmit it to a web-based dashboard. This is where the data will be stored.

To access the monitored data, you will receive an access password via your registered email address. You can use this password to view your child’s monitored data at any time, from anywhere.

The dashboard also offers live monitoring commands, allowing you to check in on your child whenever you need to.

The live commands consist of mainly five monitoring features, they are live location tracker, front camera access, rear camera access, mobile screen access, and live surround audio recorder.

Together, these tools can help you manage your child’s safety by allowing you to track their current location, listen to what is happening around them, and access their cameras for a live view.?

As for mobile screen access, it enables you to monitor what your child is doing on their phone, whilst you find them deeply distracted or busy with it.

So let's get into the details of these live monitoring commands and how they work in helping you manage your child’s safety.

How Does Live Monitoring Commands Work?

Although parental control apps work automatically after a successful installation, the story of live tracking is different. They work on your command so that you can do real-time monitoring and check what is currently happening around them.

Let's see how these commands can help you one by one:

Live Mobile Location Tracker

As the name suggests, this feature will help you do live tracking of your child’s location. How so?

When you have installed the parental control app on your child’s device and logged into its dashboard, you will be able to see the Live/Instant Command Section. This is where you will find the live mobile location tracker. When you tap on it, a command is sent to your target or child’s device, which will then display a map view of your child’s location.?

The parental monitoring app is able to do so by using your child’s device GPS to access and pinpoint their location and provide you with real-time updates.

The location tracker also provides an option with which you can check the location history of your child’s device. This history is maintained by logging the locations every 5 minutes, by default.?

Here also you can check the map view of the location along with latitude, longitude, and address. The location history also maintains the timestamp of each recorded location which includes date and time.

Live Surrounding Audio

By giving just one command, you can listen to the surrounding audio from your child’s device; whether it's a conversation or any other sound, you will be able to hear everything.

This live monitoring command is usually labeled ‘Live Audio’ and when activated, it turns on your child’s device microphone. As for the display on the dashboard, there you will find a play and pause button to start and stop listening to the ambient sound.

Once you are done listening, you can terminate microphone usage. This is an important step, especially if you need the microphone for other monitoring purposes, such as call recording.

Now, if you want to listen to the sounds of your child’s surroundings for a fixed duration regularly, such as when they are in class and you want to see how their studies are going, then there is an option to do it as well.?

You can schedule surrounding recordings. To do so, select the time and duration for the recording and create the schedule. After setting it up, the surrounding sounds of your child’s device will be recorded automatically at the designated time and for the specified duration, without the need to start the recording manually each time.

This way you can ensure that your children are safe, doing what they are meant to do, focused on their activities, and not engaging in anything harmful.

Additionally, you can play these recordings on the dashboard and download them for later reference if needed.

Front Camera Access

If you also want to see the visual of their surroundings, then the camera access feature is the tool for you to achieve that.?

This feature of the parental monitoring app allows you to access the front camera of your child's device. This means you can view the area around the front camera and see what is in its vicinity. You can access this feature from the live monitoring section. When you tap on it, a command is sent to your child's device, prompting it to capture a picture of whatever is in front of the camera.

Some monitoring apps even offer live streaming through the front camera, enabling you to watch in real-time on your dashboard to see what your children are doing.

Rear Camera Access

When the parental monitoring app accesses your child’s device's rear camera, it allows you to see the surroundings visible through their rear camera.

This live monitoring feature is also available in the live command section. When activated, it captures a picture from your child’s device’s rear camera, which will be displayed on your dashboard.

Similar to front camera access, some monitoring apps, when given this command, start streaming live video from the device’s rear camera. This provides a more comprehensive view of the environment around them.

Screen Access

Accessing the screen of your child’s device gives you an insight into what they do on their phone. This can be done in two ways, by taking a screenshot of their current screen or watching a live feed of a live screen recording.

You can access this feature and give live monitoring commands for taking screenshots or watching live streams from the live section of your dashboard.

Your Takeaway

These live monitoring features allow you to keep an eye on your children and manage their safety by being present with them, if not physically then virtually.?

However, the most important thing for you to find is where to get all these live monitoring features. The answer to that question is at ONEMONITAR, ONESPY, and CHYLDMONITOR.

With ONEMONITAR, you get live features for tracking location, accessing the rear and front cameras for taking pictures, accessing the target phone's screen for taking screenshots, and listening to surrounding recordings. ONESPY also offers the same live command features.?

With CHYLDMONITOR, you will get live streaming features with both cameras and the screen of your child’s device. You will also get the other two live features for location tracking and surrounding sound recording.