SkieCan my child install apps from the Play Store?
Only what you allow. You choose whether the Play Store is shown or hidden. If it is shown, an app you have not allowed is removed again by the install guard. If it is hidden, your child has no store to browse. Hiding it is what most parents choose.
On a Skie-managed device the Play Store is a switch in the rules, shown or hidden. That one choice decides much of how installs work.
With the Play Store hidden, there is nothing to browse. New apps arrive when you add them, and the child can ask. This is the calm option, and the one we suggest for younger children.
With the Play Store shown, a child can search and tap Install, but Skie still decides what stays. An app installed after enrolment that is not on your allowed list is removed silently by the install guard. The install guard also covers apps added by other routes, because installs from unknown sources are blocked.
Apps that were already on the device at setup are recorded in a baseline snapshot, so they are not wrongly removed. System apps that Android needs are never touched.
All apps come from Google Play. Skie does not install apps from outside it.
A middle path for older teenagers is to show the Play Store, keep the install guard on, and review requests together. It shows trust without leaving the door open.
Skie does not push an app to a device automatically yet. You add it to the allowed list, and the child installs it from Play if the store is shown, or you hide the store and install it yourself.