Microsoft has thought of parents and kids when they included Kid’s Corner into their latest Windows Phone. Kid’s Corner allows parents to lock away their grown-up phone features like email, phone and social media apps and open the door to a safe and fun kid area on your phone. My kids love to play on my phone…but I don’t love them pocket calling or toddler texting my contacts. Kid’s Corner is a welcome room in our life.
The Kid’s Corner tile with the pin wheel image is the doorway to fun on my phone. Once tapped it goes to a launch screen…
You can see on the launch screen you can swipe Kid’s Corner ON/OFF, view the GAMES, MUSIC (I have none at the moment), VIDEOS (again none yet) and APPS. The games and such can be easily downloaded (many free) from the STORE in the main menu. Tap Launch Kid’s Corner and see what happens… 
This pin wheel image shows you are officially in Kid’s Corner (thus, the external camera button, integrated search button, windows menu button and back button are deactivated. Kids cannot access your phone, calendar, text, email, pictures, social media apps or any other mode outside of Kid’s Corner – pretty smart I’d say). They can, however, swipe the pin wheel…
Which takes them to tiles of the games and apps you have chosen to be loaded into Kid’s Corner. You will see amongst my Kid’s Corner, I have pre-school games for my toddler and more grown up games for my tweens. I like that I can watch my kids play rather than hover over them to ensure they aren’t calling. It’s a certain phone freedom.
To turn Kid’s Corner off (shhh…don’t tell my kids) you simply push the power button once.
Aside: those pictures above are all screen captures directly captured via the Microsoft Windows phone…and the watermarks were all put on using the Picture Perfect app on said phone. My life is becoming much easier with phone based picture editing.
Maybe that is another thing Microsoft is thinking of…by challenging me to swap my phone…maybe they know how to make my life easier.
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I’m loving the Kid’s Corner feature on mine. Right before it arrived, my son deleted about 13 apps off my iPhone and I couldn’t really even be mad at him because it was so easy to do it. Great write up!
My son kept going into my twitter account (oh so very bad!) – I’m finding the KC to be much less stressful (on all of us).
What an AWESOME feature! I wish I had that on my iPhone!
And I’m kinda amazed they haven’t figured out how to get out of it yet.
If you password protect your windows phone even if they toggle the power button they won’t be able to get into your side of things. Also you don’t need to launch the kids corner from the pin wheel tile. On the homescreen of a locked(password protected) windows phone, if you swipe the whole screen from right to left, that will take you to the kids corner as well.
What a great idea! I didn’t know such a thing exisited! Thanks for sharing
What a neat idea! It really helps keep everything organized! Love it!