Apple Launches Parental Control Apps

Apple released the Parental Control app in the App Store earlier this year, but blocked it and now returned to iOS.

According to New York Times on April, Apple had withdrawn 11 of the 17 most popular parental control applications, as well as the technology giant reported that it did so because it offered privacy and security to users.

Also, parental-control apps could now use two technologies that Apple had recently cited as grounds for their removal from iPhones.

One technology, mobile device management, or M.D.M., enables parents to take control of a child’s phone. The other is a virtual private network, or V.P.N., which parents can use to block certain apps on a child’s phone.

Apple Launches Parental-Control Apps

Apple explained that the apps could use the technologies if they didn’t “sell, use or disclose to third parties any data for any purpose” and included that promise in their privacy policies.

An apple spokeswoman reported in a statement that these apps were using an enterprise technology that provided them access to kids’ highly sensitive personal data.

Noteworthy, on April, the makers of several banned apps told the Times, that Apple was acting unfairly and had severely damaged their businesses.