How Parents Can Monitor Their Child's Snapchat
Snapchat is incredibly popular with teenagers due to its focus on short messages and total privacy. Whether your teenager is sending selfies or texting, if they feel the need to do it on a platform that deletes the messages without a trace you should be concerned.
While parents want to let their teens live their own lives, it is very important to keep them safe on social media, giving you reason enough to monitor their Snapchat account.
Some apps to monitor Snapchat use methods that are undetectable and do not need a password to defeat the built-in security technology. This updated guide will show how Snapchat can be monitored in 2024.
4 Popular Ways To Monitor Snapchat
Snapchat is a secure and highly encrypted messaging app that is difficult to monitor directly. It also includes security features to notify the Snapchat account holder if someone attempts to log in without authorization.
Rather than monitoring Snapchat directly, you can monitor the phone it is installed on.
The easiest way to do this is through a spy app. These apps require you to have access to the phone for long enough to complete installation. It will remain running in the background forever, and you can have full control over the phone itself.
We'll cover the best tools we've found for monitoring Snapchat.
1. uMobix
Using uMobix is the best way to monitor Snapchat, primarily due to its advanced surveillance capabilities. Installation was easy and, more importantly, fast.
It is designed to be able to spy on everything someone does, not just monitor Snapchat. If you're new to this idea, consider the possibility of being able to track your kids GPS location and monitor all their social media, messaging, and Internet activity while being able to turn on the microphone remotely.
Although uMobix has everything you would expect to find in such an app, it also has capabilities that far exceed any other option.
uMobix provides access to more social media accounts than anything else on the market, including Snapchat, TikTok, Tinder, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, Zoom, Skype, and Reddit.
The short version is that you can have full control over the target device you are monitoring. Once you have installed it on the phone, you can use the dashboard to see their conversations with friends on Snapchat, but also to change settings like disabling Wi-Fi or restricting what apps can open.
Live tech support is available by phone, which can be a lifesaver if you need to complete installation in a limited amount of time.
I have had no complaints other than intercepted data staying available for just 30 days. But, this limit is higher on multi-month plans so I'm just taking away a half star for it.
- Totally hidden
- Can stream live video from both cameras
- Remote microphone activation
- GPS tracking
- Monitors all social media
- Data retention limited to 30 days on the basic plan
4. mSpy
mSpy is a powerful and easy to navigate spy app. Perhaps most importantly, the software is totally invisible to the user and anyone using the target phone will never know of its presence.
Although lacking a few advanced tools from the first two options we've discussed, you will find that mSpy has a lot of things that are unavailable with most other options.
These are some of the highlights of this app that monitors Snapchat:
- Call Logs
- Email and Text Messages
- Search History
- Keylogger
- Compatible with all versions of Android and iPhone
Snapchat conversations can be recovered and read even if they have been deleted and calls from specific numbers can be blocked so the they will never know about them.
mSpy is a good option for tech-savvy users that require greater control over the target device in addition to being able to get their Snapchat chats.
- Proven track record
- Easy installation
- Totally hidden
- Location tracking
- Great tech support
- Not as user-friendly as eyeZy
3. EyeZy
EyeZy is a powerful new mobile app that is capable of Snapchat monitoring. The company that makes eyeZy has a long history in the parental control and surveillance market and this is their current flagship.
eyeZy offers a wide range of advanced capabilities for parents including:
- Keyword alerts to be notified if they type, send, or receive an inappropriate email or text message on their smartphone.
- Monitor all social media including Snapchat, Tinder, Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype, Instagram, iMessage, Telegram, Kik, Line, Viber, and Google Hangouts.
- See photos and videos.
- GPS location tracking and the ability to create restricted areas and be notified when your kids are somewhere they shouldn't be.
- Stealth mode ensures that they don't not know you are monitoring them.
- Easy to use
- Fast installation
- Totally hidden
- Location tracking
- Keylogging
- Screenshots
- Not as powerful as the first options
4. FlexiSpy
FlexiSpy is not as user-friendly as other Snapchat monitoring apps, and the website and interface seem dated, but the technical ability of the app is unmatched.
FlexiSpy rivals uMobix in capabilities but not in usability. These two are the only apps that can take pictures or video, as well as activate the microphone to turn the monitored phone into a live room bug.
With the ability to record Skype, Facetime, and Facebook video calls, it offers much more than a Snapchat monitor. Unfortunately, FlexiSpy has two problems, and those are why it ranks #2 on our list. The website is outdated and the app is expensive, but it would be a mistake to let either of these things turn you away from this marvel.
- Extremely powerful
- Live camera streaming
- Pre-loaded phones available
- GPS tracking
- Microphone activation
- Call recording
- Older interface
- Expensive
Monitoring Snapchat's My Eyes Only Without Permission
My Eyes Only is a feature that lets the user save snaps in an encrypted storage area.
The best way to hack into someone's My Eyes Only on Snapchat will record activity on the screen. You can record the password as it is typed and then monitor the account yourself.
Although all of the apps we have discussed have a keylogger for recording the user's password, they also make it entirely unnecessary to use this tool in this way.
Instead, they simply upload messages to the dashboard for later review.
Will They Know If You Log Into Their Account?
Yes. An email alert will be sent to them when there is a login attempt from an unrecognized device so attempting to guess the password or logging in from your device is usually a bad idea.
Using a Snapchat monitoring app, they will have no way to know their Snapchat activities are monitored because their account is not actually accessed. Rather, the activity is just being copied.
Are There Ways To Monitor Snapchat For Free?
No, there are no free ways of monitoring Snapchat. A free keylogger can be used to log the username and password and then access the account manually. However, this is not the most safe method of getting access because there are many ways you can easily get caught.
Legal Concerns
In many places it is legal to access an account if someone has have given you their consent or if you are their legal guardian. It is rarely legally monitor your spouse's accounts or passwords, though the issue can become legally complex if you own the devices in question.
We strongly recommend against monitoring someone's Snapchat without consulting a lawyer first. Some statutes are written in such a way that you may be taking on much more risk than you realized.
Is The Process Different For iPhone or Android?
Getting setup initially can be a little bit different, particularly if you need to have abilities that require rooting or jailbreaking the device.
The information you can have sent to you, and how it is viewed on the dashboard, will be the same on Android or iPhone.
Conclusion
Snapchat is one of the most popular free encrypted messaging apps for iPhone or Android, and also one of the most secure.
In this article, we've talked about how Snapchat can be monitored by parents and discussed why people might want to do this, as well as the legal issues you should know about. Such apps should only be used by parents to see messages, videos, and activities to keep your family safe.
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