Does Canopy monitor all Snapchat activity on a child's iPhone?
While Canopy can't monitor all Snapchat activity on a child's iPhone, some alternative apps can.
If you're a parent who wants to monitor how your child uses the Snapchat app on their iPhone, you might have considered a parental control app like Canopy. While Canopy can monitor some activity on an iPhone, it can't monitor private Snaps or messages between Snapchat users. Fortunately, there are some alternatives to Canopy on iOS that use a different monitoring technique that ensures Snapchat (and other apps) are reliably monitored, and this includes private/disappearing messages that are difficult to monitor otherwise.
Because of privacy features on Apple iOS devices and the specific technique Canopy uses to monitor activity, it isn't able to monitor Snapchat private messages.
The only foolproof way to monitor Snapchat on a kid's iPhone is to use a monitoring app that records the entire screen.
Fortunately, monitoring apps like LivingRoom , which use screenshot-based monitoring, can capture Snapchat activity.
Alternatives to Canopy that can monitor all Snapchat activity
There are a few parental control apps, like the LivingRoom app for Families , that capture all activity on an iPhone by periodically capturing screenshots of your child's entire screen. A parent can review these screenshots to see activity.
With screenshot monitoring, you can see all activity on Snapchat, including Snaps, private messages, activity with Snapchat's AI, what your child sees on Snapchat's discovery page, and much more.
Additionally, parents can create their own Snapchat account to monitor some (although not all) activity on their child's Snapchat account through Snapchat Family Center. If you decide to use this method only, you (as a parent) can't see the content of messages being sent, but you can disable some features, such as Snapchat's AI companion.
See our parents' guide to Snapchat for a full breakdown of what we recommend.