SaferChat: WhatsApp Control

SaferChat lets you block a single WhatsApp group, a channel, or Meta AI on your child's phone — without blocking WhatsApp itself. You choose what to block from your own phone. Your child stays in the group and keeps using WhatsApp normally — they simply cannot open that one conversation. And when you want to, you can lift the block for a set time you choose: an hour, three hours, a day or a week. When the time is up it comes back on its own — you do not have to remember. ★ BLOCK ONE GROUP Block a specific WhatsApp group on your child's phone — without your child leaving it, and without blocking WhatsApp. Your child cannot open that conversation: SaferChat closes it the moment they try. They stay a member of the group. ★ BLOCK META AI WhatsApp added Meta's AI assistant to every chat list, and it cannot be removed from the app itself. SaferChat blocks it in one tap. ★ BLOCK CONTENT CHANNELS Block channels by category — social and gossip, gaming, news, entertainment — or block a single channel by name. This is the gap screen-time tools miss: parents limit YouTube and TikTok, and the same content keeps arriving through WhatsApp channels, because WhatsApp is classed as a messaging app and stays open. ★ TIME-LIMITED APPROVAL Your child asks for access to something blocked, the request reaches you, and you approve it for an hour, three hours, a day or a week. When the time is up the block returns on its own — no argument, no confiscated phone. ★ PRIVACY SaferChat does not read your child's messages and does not store them, not even for you. There is no conversation monitoring and no transcription. Servers are located in the European Union, under GDPR. ★ VISIBLE TO THE CHILD An explanation screen is shown before it starts. Your child can see what is blocked and can send a request. This is not covert monitoring software. BEFORE YOU INSTALL SaferChat works across two phones: yours and your child's. Both must be Android. Connecting them takes one QR scan. ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE — HOW SAFERCHAT USES IT SaferChat uses Android's AccessibilityService on the child's phone. This is the only way the blocking can work, and this is exactly what it does: while WhatsApp is open, the service reads the name of the conversation currently on the screen and compares it with the list of channels and groups the parent chose to block. When the name matches, SaferChat covers that conversation so the child cannot open it. The service does not read, store or send the content of any message, and it is not used for any other purpose. Nothing is collected for advertising or analytics. The child is shown a screen explaining this before the service is switched on, and can see at any time what is being blocked. SaferChat is not affiliated with WhatsApp or Meta.