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Zones with alerts

Zones are circular perimeters with a radius that range from 100m (328ft) to 500m (1640ft). ESET Parental Control for Android enables you to create multiple zones and personalize them with a unique name and icon to keep them organized. You will receive a notification each time your child enters or exits a zone. You can also turn zones on and off. For example, you can turn off the zone School during holidays.


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Zones sample scenario

You create a zone named School and a zone named Home. When your child exits the Home zone, you will receive a Home Departure notification with the time of departure from the zone. When your child enters the School zone, you will receive a School Arrival notification with the time of arrival into the zone. When your child leaves the School zone, you will receive a School Departure notification with the time of the departure from the zone. You will also receive a notification with the arrival time and the departure time so you can check the total length of time your child remained in the School zone. You will receive another notification when your child arrives in the Home zone.


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Zones distance

Zones should be separated by a distance that takes at least 5 minutes to cross while walking to prevent confusing notifications.


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Zones notifications

Notifications will be sent after your child spends a minimum of 3 minutes in a zone to prevent multiple notifications when your child is moving along the borders of a zone.

Zones settings in ESET Parental Control for Android app (on parent's device or in parental mode on child's device):

1.Select the child for whom you want to set up zones.

2.On the main screen, go to Locator.

3.Tap the Gear Icon.

4.Tap Add new zone.

5.Select the center of a zone by searching for a place using the address or dragging the zone on the map to the desired location.

6.Tap the zone radius icon (100m is set as default).

7.On the slider bar, set the zone radius and tap the check mark icon to save the setting.

8.Type in the name of the zone.

9.Optionally tap the home icon and select a different icon for the zone.

10.Tap Save zone.

11.Select tracked device. You can select only one device in your child's profile.

Zones settings on ESET Parental Control web portal (parentalcontrol.eset.com):

1.Select the child for whom you want to set up zones

2.Click Locator.

3.Click the gear icon in the Child Locator section.

4.Click Add new zone.

5.Select the center of a zone by searching for a place using the address or dragging the zone on the map to the desired location.

6.Select a zone icon, zone name, and zone radius.

7.Select tracked device. You can select only one device in your child's profile.

8.Click the gear icon again. Your new zone will be visible on the map.