"Owl parent" creates an application that forces children to respond to messages

Purchased to help teens, the mobile phone often plays the role of "weight bearer" when calling or sending messages to young people are the parents, who are quickly ignored. But to solve this problem, an "owl parent" has created an application that requires children to respond to messages.

Called ReplyASAP, when the application takes control of the device to which the message is sent, locking

To use it, you have to install the application on the handsets of the parents and the # 39; child, as well as on the

Once configured, the application can be used to send messages. urgent for the child, "lock" the device for any other activity until the message receives an answer. And, even if the device is lost in the backpack in silent mode, the application ignores these settings and only sounds the alarm when the user picks up the phone and reads the message .

Nick Herbert, the creator of ReplyASAP, badures that he knows that the app can be used to suppress the privacy of young people and asks them to talk to their parents to use the phone. 39, application only in case of extreme need. But if that does not happen, some exaggerated parents may also find themselves caught in the pocket because although the application does not require payment for download or monthly fees, it charges a fee for each message sent (the first is from

For now, ReplyASAP is only available for Android devices, but Herbert has already revealed that it was running under an iOS version and that It should be published in the coming months.

Source: Telegraph