In today’s world, YouTube plays a big role in the lives of students. YouTube houses videos and now short videos as well known as reels.

These videos can be found in different categories like gaming, news, sports, fashion, shopping, travelling, etc. Other than these there are categories in entertainment as well like movies, music, and many more.

Then there are explanatory videos on different topics like movie explanation videos or podcasts holding discussions on every topic you can imagine like politics, weather, etc. 

Then there are educational videos or lecture videos, to be more precise. These videos are mostly free and a huge source of knowledge for students. 

Whether it is a school or college-going student, YouTube has played a vital role in shaping their academic careers. Students rely on YouTube to learn and understand any topic that is too difficult to understand as the lectures are always in the format of video explaining the topic.

But every good thing has its own drawbacks, for example, on YouTube, you can also find malicious and violent content. 

Let’s not forget the gaming, fashion, and entertainment categories, as they work as distractions and children can easily switch to them while they are on the application.

Some parents think that restricting mobile phone usage or snatching it away from their children is the right way to deal with things. However, snatching away their mobile phones is not the solution.

This can cause aggression in children resulting in rebellious behaviors like lying or secretly using phones behind your backs. As it is a natural human behavior to pursue or seek the things they were told not to.

Your most promising chance is to silently monitor their behavior and keep an eye on the type of content they are watching. The best way to go about it is by employing phone spy apps to track your children’s YouTube history. 

How Phone Spy Apps Monitor YouTube History?

There are various types of phone spy apps available in the market that can track YouTube history like ONEMONITAR, CHYLDMONITOR, ONESPY, etc.

These phone spy apps can only be used to monitor YouTube history because they have some outstanding features like live screen streaming, keylogger, and live screenshot capturing.

They do so by getting certain permissions from the mobile device they are installed on and then capturing that data for transferring it to your dashboard. 

The dashboard is a platform that is present at the user's end and displays all the data or information captured from the targeted mobile device.

Let's learn how these phone spy app features may help you in recording YouTube history.

1. Live Screen Streaming

Live screen streaming is a feature available in phone spy apps that lets you watch the live screen of any device it is installed on. 

All you have to do is press on “start live streaming”, sit and watch. After that, the phone spy app will start streaming the live action going on the device. 

Once you have watched your full, you can choose to stop the live streaming. 

This feature of a phone spy app works just like you were simply going your way but suddenly saw your child using the phone and decided to take a peek at their activities. 

As we all know very well, when children are asked what they are doing on their phones, they will straightforwardly answer that they are studying. Their responses are like well-honed instincts so much so that you won’t be able to detect any lies from their expression.

That’s where phone spy apps come into use, they will do the peeking for you and will display the live screen of your child’s phone so that you can check their current activity.

2. Keylogger

Key loggers are the software that captures and records every keystroke made on the device that is monitored and then displays that information on the user's dashboard.

The keystrokes are nothing but every tap made on the keyboard of the device like that of numbers, alphabets, or symbols.

The phone spy apps have this feature of capturing key logs and then sending them to your dashboard. 

With the help of key loggers, you can easily check what your children are searching on YouTube as they also provide the site information. 

3. Live Screenshot Capturing

We all have a basic understanding of what screenshots are, they capture the current page of the mobile phone in image form. 

With phone spy apps you have a level of control over the target device that you can take a screenshot of whenever you want. Some of these phone spy apps do this at live command, thus it's called a live screenshot.

These features are simple to use and you need to only send a command from your dashboard, after that the phone spy app will capture the live screen for you and then display it at your end of the app.

4. YouTube History Monitoring

Although all the above features of monitoring are very useful in capturing the history of YouTube, phone spy apps have another way to directly capture the search history. 

Phone spy apps have a feature known as YouTube history monitor, which captures the URLs of every video that was watched on YouTube. This way you won’t need to assume the time when they are on the platform to capture their live moments or read each keystroke, you will simply have every URL at your fingertip. 

Also, the YouTube history monitor activates automatically and does not wait for your command to capture history. Thus ensuring you don’t miss out on any important URLs your children might visit.

Thus, using these features you can easily monitor YouTube history using phone spy apps and can protect your children from watching any obscene or wrong video.

In Conclusion

Children easily get distracted by videos of gaming, entertainment, fashion, makeup, etc. when they have initially opened the application for studying or watching any lecture video in particular.

This short attention span can be attributed to excessive mobile phone and social media usage thus contributing to failure in completing studies. 

The online world may serve as an ocean of knowledge but often its depths can become dangerous to those who are still naive. Our children are our future and they need to be made aware of the threats posed by the online world. 

I will recommend monitoring their activities with the help of phone spy apps and putting technology to some good use.