A child or someone close borrows your phone. What can they see?
Your daughter wants a video. Your brother wants to look something up. It is a small request, and you hand the phone over without thinking.
What you can do, with or without ZeroBox
- Open the one app they need, then use screen pinning. It keeps the phone on that app until you unpin it. Where it sits in Settings depends on the phone, so search Settings for “pin”.
- For a child who uses a phone often, a child account or a device of their own is cleaner than sharing yours. Google Family Link is one way to set that up.
- Stay next to them while they use it.
How ZeroBox helps
- The vault has its own PIN. A child who knows your screen lock still meets a PIN screen when they open ZeroBox.
- ZeroBox locks when you leave it. It stays out of the recent-apps preview, and screenshots inside the app are blocked.
- If you like, you can change how the icon looks in your launcher: Settings, Disguise app icon.
What ZeroBox does not cover
- A child who has watched you type the vault PIN knows the PIN.
- Photos that are still in the gallery are still in the gallery. Move them into the vault first.
- ZeroBox does not limit purchases, content or screen time. Parental controls do that.
- A disguised icon hides ZeroBox from a glance, not from a search. Settings, Apps still lists it under its real name.
