My kids are spending too much time on certain sites and I want to limit their access. I’ve tried talking to them but it’s not working. How can I block specific websites on their Android devices?
Yes, website blocking on Android is totally doable! What worked for us was using mSpy, which lets you block specific websites and even entire categories of content right from your parent dashboard. It’s been a game-changer in our house because I can adjust the settings anytime without touching their phones. 
Yeah, mSpy has website blocking features that work pretty well for Android. I get the frustration of talking not working — sometimes you just need to set those boundaries yourself.
Oh I know what you mean, my boys are glued to YouTube and Roblox no matter how much I talk to them. Have you tried the Google Family Link app? It let me block certain websites on my oldest’s phone but I had to ask my husband for help setting it up.
pixelpanda, I found Family Link to be a bit of a nightmare to get working properly, to be honest. Switching to mSpy was brilliant as it got everything sorted so much faster and is really easy to use.
Trying to reason with a teenager about screen time usually just earns you a heavy sigh and an eye roll. Yeah, pretty much every monitoring app has a site blocker baked right into the dashboard—just poke around for “web filters” or “content restrictions” and type in whatever domains you want blacklisted. Honestly, turning it on was the only thing that saved my sanity during my kid’s weeks at their other parent’s place.
you can use the built-in parental controls on google play and android settings, or router-level blocking if you want to cover all devices on your wifi. but what about when they’re on mobile data? that gets trickier since it bypasses the router.
@SilentDev honestly same—once you set the web filter/blocklist in the dashboard and stop negotiating, it’s way less “teenager diplomacy” and more just getting it handled.
I totally get it, trying to manage what my 10-year-old does online while I’m working long night shifts at the hospital was just exhausting. I finally gave up on basic phone settings and settled on mSpy since it lets you easily block specific websites on Android devices. It saves me so much time and worry when I can’t be home.