On iPhones with iOS (iPhone® operating system) 11-14, Covenant Eyes uses Screen Accountability within the Covenant Eyes browser app, device-wide domain (website) monitoring, and optional device-wide filtering.
The Covenant Eyes Browser
Instead of using Safari® or Google Chrome, you can use the Covenant Eyes browser to search the web, check the weather, watch YouTube videos, and more!
- On older iPhones and iPads, we only take screenshots inside the Covenant Eyes browser app.
- Inside our iPhone® browser app, our monitoring service, Screen Accountability, randomly screen-captures and scans your screen for mature content.
- Regardless of your reporting method, screenshots from the Covenant Eyes browser appear in email reports and the Victory app.
Domain Monitoring
- Covenant Eyes cannot screenshot your apps' activity on iPhones and iPads. So instead of taking screenshots of your apps, we monitor all your domains (web traffic) with a VPN-like background process.
- A domain is a website, like ad.google.com or nike.com. Covenant Eyes reports the root of the domain (i.e., facebook.com) instead of the entire website URL (i.e., facebook.com-user-profile-john-doe).
Website Filtering & Blocking
The filter is an optional service that runs in the background of your iPhone®/iPad® and blocks explicit websites across all browsers (Google Chrome, Safari®, etc.) and apps on your device.
- There are two Blocking Levels: Standard (default) and Strong.
- Each level has a Custom Website List, so you can block or allow specific websites.
Add More Protection
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With Screen Time, Apple's device controls, you can:
- Disable Safari®
- Disable the ability to install and delete apps
- Use Downtime to set a time limit for your device
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In the Settings app on your iPhone® or iPad®, set Covenant Eyes as your default browser!
If you set Covenant Eyes as your default browser, you can automatically open links from text messages or emails in Covenant Eyes.