Internet child safety, sorted one step at a time

Apps and games are only half the story. The other half is the wider internet — the websites that turn up whether your child goes looking or not, the AI chatbots they're already talking to, the parental controls sitting unused on every device, and the ads quietly tracking them through "free" apps.

None of it needs a tech degree. Most of the protection is already built into the phone or tablet; you just have to switch it on and know which lever does what. These are the four jobs I'd start with, each one doable in an evening.