Locked their phone down? Why your kids aren't safe yet.

The dangerous loophole in standard parental control apps.

So, you finally locked their phone down with screen time limits—but what about the five other devices they use every single day?"

A few years back, my daughter found an old, forgotten iPod in a drawer. She hopped onto the home Wi-Fi and spent weeks completely bypassing every single screen time allowance and device restriction I had painstakingly set up.

As an internet cybersecurity engineer, it was a massive wake-up call.

If a kid could bypass standard boundaries that easily using a redundant gadget, what chance do parents have in a modern household full of PlayStations, smart TVs, school laptops, and tablets?

The reality is that standard parental control apps and built-in device settings, have a major flaw: they only protect that one specific screen. The moment your child steps outside that brand's ecosystem (think Apple and screen time only working on their devices), or a friend comes over with their own device, the safety net vanishes.

Worse yet, it turns you into the unpaid household IT manager, spending your evenings configuring settings on ten different devices from five different brands hoping you’ve done incorrectly.

I knew there had to be a better way. So, Utilising my connections with Chorus and Enable, I built Halo Internet to protect at the source. Where I could safeguard my own kids, and give other parents an easy, usable option with an even better internet experience.

Protection on Devices vs. Protection at the Source

Most downloadable safety apps try to build protection on individual devices. Halo Internet does something completely different: we protect the entire pipe leading into your home.

We operate at the network level through an intelligent firewall built directly into your Wi-Fi. If a device connects to your internet, it’s automatically covered with our standard built in protection. No exceptions, no loopholes.

Here are the two genuine game-changers we built into the system:

• 1. Clean Internet at the Source: Instead of managing filters app-by-app, Halo’s intelligent routing automatically blocks known adult content, malware, phishing, and harmful domains before the data ever crosses your threshold. It enforces SafeSearch on Google and YouTube across the board, no matter what device is being used. *

• 2. One App for Everything: If it connects to the Wi-Fi, you control it from one simple dashboard - Xbox, Google Home, Android, Apple, LG TV, literally any device that connects to the WiFi. You can schedule internet windows, block specific categories, or see insights into what's online.

We even threw in a "Pause" button with a bit of common sense. You can pause the internet for family dinner, but it has an auto-resume timer. It turns itself back on automatically after the time you select so you don’t forget, saving you from complaints from the kids later.

Total Peace of Mind for the Modern Household

Standard phone settings and protection apps are alright for what they do, but they only cover half the job.

They won’t stop a kid from jumping onto a PlayStation, a smart TV, a school laptop, or a sneaky old gadget hidden in a junk drawer. To catch all of that, you have to protect the actual internet pipe coming into your house before it ever reaches a single screen.

That’s where Halo Internet comes in. We make sure the Wi-Fi your kids connect to is safe, filtered, and secure from the moment it hits your front door. It handles the heavy lifting automatically, giving you the genuine peace of mind that device settings alone just can't deliver.

You get to stop acting like the household tech support, and your kids get a safer internet to explore.

• A Quick Bonus for the Grown-ups: On our Hatch & Fledge Plans, we provide 3 separate Wi-Fi lines. This means you can keep a strictly clean, filtered internet connection for the kids, while leaving the adult and guest lines completely open and customisable for yourself.

See if Halo Internet is available at your place

https://signup.halointernet.co.nz/

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