Parents guide

The internet your child deserves.

Gambling, ads and adult content stay out, always. During school and sleep, games, videos and social media do too. You set it up in 10 minutes.

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Gambling

Betting sites, casinos and online slots.

Ads

Banners, pop-ups and promos.

Adult content

Porn and sites unsuitable for minors.

Five steps. Ten minutes.

Do them in order, with their device in your hand.

  1. 1

    Install Lyra on their device

    • Install Lyra on your child's device and sign in with your account.
    • Open Family and tap Protect this device.
    • Create the family PIN. Your vault, history and purchases don't show there, and signing out or changing protection asks for the PIN.

    Prefer an account of their own? In Family, tap Link someone's account and invite their email. They use your plan at no extra cost.

  2. 2

    Set focus

    • In Family, open their device and tap Rules.
    • Choose School and the hours: morning, afternoon, full day, evening or your own.
    • Turn on Sleep. During focus, games, videos and social media stay closed.

    They can see the rules and get a heads-up 15 minutes before each focus starts.

  3. 3

    Turn on Lyra DNS

    • On their device, open lyrasearch.com/dns.
    • Follow the steps for their system: iPhone, Android, Mac or Windows.
    • Done: during focus, game apps and the YouTube app stop too.
  4. 4

    Lock it at the system level

    Lyra protects the Lyra browser and Lyra DNS. To stop the person from using another browser or deleting the app, also turn on the system's own lock:

    iPhone

    iPhone and iPad: Settings, Screen Time, Content & Privacy. Under App Store Purchases, set "Deleting Apps" to Don't Allow. Under Allowed Apps, turn off Safari. Use a Screen Time passcode only you know.

    Android

    Android: use Google Family Link to block uninstalling apps and other browsers. In Settings, Private DNS, enter the Lyra DNS address.

    Mac

    Mac: give the person a standard user, not an administrator. A standard user can't delete apps or change DNS. In Screen Time, limit the other browsers.

    Windows

    Windows: give the person a standard account, not an administrator. A standard account can't uninstall apps installed for everyone or change DNS.

    Without this system lock, Lyra alerts you when the device stops sending a signal.

  5. 5

    Follow along

    • See each device, its last check-in and the blocks of the day and week.
    • Answer requests for more time with one tap.
    • Get the summary every Sunday and an alert if the device goes 1 hour without signal outside focus hours.

Made for real family life.

More time? They ask, you decide.

The request lands in your app. Allow 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or decline.

A heads-up before focus.

15 minutes before school or sleep, they get a heads-up. No one is caught off guard.

Sunday sums up the week.

Blocks and focus hours for each person in the family, on one card.

Gone quiet? You'll know.

If the device goes 1 hour without signal outside focus hours, Lyra lets you know. At school and bedtime, silence is expected and doesn't count.

What you see and what you don't

You see counts by category, the blocked sites of the last 30 days and, in the mode with your account, the device's history and tabs, encrypted to a key only your device holds. Lyra doesn't sell or share any of it.

Start today. It takes 10 minutes.

Install Lyra on your device and on your child's. They use your plan.

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