You may not know it, but Free gives mobile subscribers the ability to filter calls made and received by their children. Something to have peace of mind for worried parents.

Between the risks of contact with malicious people, excessive use and out of plan (in the case of an unlimited plan), entrusting the first mobile to your child is not necessarily easy for all parents.

Free Mobile offers a tool that should allow them to keep control and have peace of mind. Thanks to filtering, the most worried parents will be able to decide to limit communications to their phone numbers alone.

From the subscriber area, by going to my services, there is a function called “Calls & SMS/MMS Filters”. Click on the activation button, then on the pencil button on the left, to access the configuration.

The configuration will be done in two steps. Start first to indicate “Yes” for “Block all incoming communication by default” and “Block all incoming communication by default”.

The second step will consist of adding exceptions, in order to allow the child to call his parents and send them SMS/MMS, to allow the parents to call their child and send him SMS/MMS.

To do this, you will therefore have to create four rules per number, i.e. four rules with one parent or eight rules with two parents. A first rule will authorize child calls to parent (outgoing, parent number, call and authorize), a second child SMS/MMS to parent (outgoing, parent number, SMS/MMS and authorize), a third parent calls to child (incoming, parent number, call and authorize) and a fourth SMS/MMS parent to child (incoming, parent number, SMS/MMS and authorize). When configuring each rule, you can specify the days and time slots during which it is valid. All the time, initially.

Below is an example with exchanges limited to the child to his father and the father to his child: