Digital Skills Education

Screen Time will give you a report showing how your device is being used, apps you’ve opened and websites you’ve visited. You can see your usage, set limits for your most used apps, and see how many times a device was picked up or received a notification.

iPhone: Screen Time

• Settings
• Screen Time
• See All App and Website Activity
• Scroll to most used

Android Phone: Digital Wellbeing

• Settings
• Digital Wellbeing
• Dashboard
• Scroll to see all the Apps

You can set a daily limit for apps. App Limits are refreshed every day at midnight, and you can delete them at any time.

iPhones

• Settings
• Screen Time
• App Limits
• Add Limit

Android

• Settings
• Digital Wellbeing
• Dashboard
• Press the Egg Timer

‘Do Not Disturb’ mode, also called ‘Focus’, helps you concentrate by minimising distractions. It helps to block out apps and pause all notifications.

You can customise Focus settings and choose when you want to receive alerts and notifications while letting other people and apps know when you’re busy.

Android: Do Not Disturb

• Notifications
• Long Press Do Not Disturb
• People

iPhone: Focus

• Settings
• Focus
• Work
• People
• Add

Android:

• Settings
• Apps
• Permission Manager

iPhone:

• Settings
• Privacy

iPhone users: If you see a request to track your activity, you can tap ‘Allow’ or ‘Ask App Not to Track’. The app will still work even if you ask it not to track you. If you choose ‘Ask App Not to Track‘ the app is not permitted to track your activity using information that identifies you or your phone, including your system ID or your email address.

Go to:

• Settings
• Privacy & Security
• Tracking

Software Updates

• Apply security updates promptly will help protect your phone and accounts from cyber criminals.
• Apply updates as soon as they are available (don’t ignore them)
• Turn on ‘automatic updates‘ if available

Android: Check and update your Android version

• Settings
• System
• System Update
• You’ll find your update status. Follow any steps on the screen.

iPhone: Update your iPhone and turn on automatic updates

• Settings
• General
• Software Update
• Tap Automatic Updates, and then turn on Download iOS Updates
• Turn on Install iOS Updates. Your device will be updated automatically to the latest version of iOS or iPadOS. Some updates may need to be installed manually.

Strong Passwords

• Using a strong PIN (not the same PIN you use anywhere else)
• Make use of the fingerprint or face recognition
• Keep it hidden – be aware of ‘shoulder surfing’

Storing passwords security

You can use your phones built in software to help manage your passwords and help create you different passwords for each account.

Android

• Google Password Manager

iPhone

• Set up iCloud Keychain

These apps use “End-To-End Encryption” which means that before your message is sent it is encrypted and can only be unlocked by the other user. The company who operates the messenger app isn’t able to see the contents of that message – the information inside it is locked.

• WhatsApp
• Signal
• iMessage (Apple)