Victory Shield™ uses Screen Accountability in Safari®, device-wide domain (website) monitoring, and device website filtering.
Screen Accountability in Safari®
Screen Accountability (our monitoring service) screen-captures your activity in Safari®.
- You can now safely use the Safari® browser to search the web, watch YouTube videos, and more while being safely monitored with Screen Accountability via our Safari® extension.
- Recap, Suggestive, and Explicit screenshots from Safari will appear in the Victory app's Activity Feed or email Check-in.
Domain Monitoring
Victory Shield™ cannot take screenshots of your app 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.
- In the Victory app's Activity Feed, we'll list explicit domains as Likely-Explicit DNS Connections. If you use our filter, you will see "blocked" for any explicit domains.
- We created and patented a process that works similarly to a VPN. We call this process our Tunneled Monitoring Service (TMS). TMS creates a secure tunnel in your device's background that lets us monitor your activity.
- A traditional VPN allows your device to connect securely to an external source or a server. Our TMS runs on your device but doesn't connect to an external source.
- TMS monitors your domain activity. A domain is a website, like ad.google.com or nike.com. Victory Shield™ reports the root of the domain (e.g., facebook.com) instead of the entire website URL (e.g., 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 three Blocking Levels: None (no filtering), Standard (default), and Strong.
- Each level has a Custom Website List, so you can block or allow specific websites.
Apps & The App Store®
The Victory Shield™ iPhone® app cannot block or control the apps downloaded from the App Store®.
- We suggest using Screen Time (Apple's device controls) to remove the ability to install apps.
- To protect Victory Shield™ from being deleted from the iPhone, you can also use Screen Time to disable the ability to delete apps.