Turn off a stuck Do Not Disturb, fix a silenced ringer, make a lost phone ring, or just check in — from your own phone. Your parent approves it up front, sees every change, and can undo setting changes with one tap.
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Every family knows the call: "my phone stopped ringing." The fix is usually thirty seconds in Settings — if you're in the room. PG Remote closes that gap with a deliberately split design. The app on your phone is just a remote. All the real permissions are granted from your parent's app — by them, on their own phone, visible to them always, revocable by them from that phone while it's online. It doesn't monitor them and can't take over their phone. It handles a short list of specific fixes for the problems that come up most.
On your phone
Sends a handful of signed requests — fix the ringer, turn off Do Not Disturb, make their phone ring, check in — and shows you their phone's basic status. It holds no power of its own and keeps a full history of everything you've done.
On your parent's phone
Is where your parent grants every permission, verifies each request really came from you, shows a plain-language note for every change — with a one-tap Undo on ringer and Do Not Disturb changes, for 24 hours — and lets your parent review what you've done or, with the phone online, remove your access on their own.
First-time pairing is meant to happen face to face, on purpose. A remote-setup path is exactly what phone scammers would use, so no invitation, link, or code read out over the phone can connect anyone — only two QR scans, phone to phone.
Your parent's phone shows a code; you scan it, then theirs scans yours. Their code expires in five minutes and works once.
Each kind of change is spelled out in plain language and granted one by one. They can change their mind later.
Send the fix; it's usually applied on theirs in seconds. No more twenty minutes on speakerphone describing which icon to tap.
Every change shows up on their phone immediately, in past tense, with your name on it. Ringer and Do Not Disturb changes carry an Undo for 24 hours. If they undo, your next change of that kind asks their OK first.
Every safeguard here is enforced by the apps and our servers. There's no setting in PG Remote that turns it off.
Your parent taps “yes” on their own phone for each kind of change — nothing is allowed until they do, and they can switch any of it off again.
Every change is listed on their phone the moment it happens, in plain language, with your name on it — with a notice too, if their notifications are on. Status checks don't pop up a notice, but they're listed there too.
One tap undoes a setting change for 24 hours after it's made — and if their phone can't change it back, it says so. An undo also means your next change of that kind asks their permission first.
Your parent can review what you've done and remove any permission, or everyone's access with Stop sharing, from their own phone while it's online. They don't need your help to do it.
And PG Remote Home never asks for Android's accessibility service — the permission scam guides warn you never to grant to a remote app. We don't need it.
Read how it works underneath →That's why we're launching on Android first — it's where the full product is possible today.
Android lets PG Remote Home change these settings directly, so you can often fix things without your parent lifting a finger.
And help can start from their end: their app has its own “I need help” button, which alerts you.
Apple doesn't allow any app to change another iPhone's settings remotely — no app can, including ours. On iPhone, PG Remote will be a coaching tool, not a remote.
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No fees or ads, ever. Your parent's app is where the permissions, the notes, and the Undo button live. Charging them for their own safety rails never sat right with us.
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