Glossary

Parental controls, Family Sharing, the BlueTag, ocean plastic: the terms around TaskBlue, explained briefly and plainly.

Ocean Impact

At TaskBlue, the difference your child's focus time makes for the sea: recovered plastic, counted in kilograms.

Plastic waste that reaches the sea through rivers, coasts and ships and breaks down there only very slowly, lost fishing nets included.

TaskBlue's work with WWF Germany, through which ghost nets and other plastic are recovered from the sea.

The time when distracting apps on your child's iPhone are invisible, so homework, studying or sleep get the room they need.

A small NFC tag without a battery that ends a focus with a scan and brings the apps back. It lives outside the phone, with the parents for example.

The small key ring that comes with TaskBlue and stays with the parents. A scan with the BlueTag brings the apps back early.

A focus that starts by itself when your child arrives at a chosen place and ends as soon as they leave it again.

An alarm in TaskBlue that only stops ringing once the BlueTag is scanned. Until then, the distracting apps are gone.

An app that adds to or replaces Apple's Screen Time when the built-in settings don't fit a family's everyday life.

Locking certain apps on your child's phone for a set time, instead of negotiating about them every single time.

Deliberately less screen time for the whole family: a free weekend, holidays without endless scrolling or set evenings.

Studying in 25-minute blocks with short breaks in between. A simple method that also helps children with homework.

Settings or apps that let parents decide what their child can use on the phone and for how long, often with reports and location.

Apple's feature that links a family's accounts. Through it, parents manage child accounts, Screen Time and purchase requests.

A written agreement between parents and child about phone, console and internet: when, how long and which rules apply to everyone.

The way to end a TaskBlue focus without the BlueTag. Every child has three of them, as long as no parent PIN is set.