To be freaked out by DD’s phone?

goodkidsmaadhouse · 2025-02-04T19:57:15+00:00

DD’s phone is showing 82 pick ups for today, with a massive cluster around 3-6pm. But the phone was at home at that time with nobody there. She wouldn’t have looked at it since the morning - she didn’t take it to school, I picked her up from school and dropped her to her sport and she hasn’t been home yet. Is there some logical explanation for this because otherwise it feels like someone has been in the house picking up her phone 😱

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goodkidsmaadhouse · 04/02/2025 23:39

DreamW3aver · 04/02/2025 23:22

I have never heard of this before, why were you looking at the number in the first place?

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I check her phone now and then to see what she’s using it for, make sure no unpleasant messages etc.

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DreamW3aver · 04/02/2025 23:22

goodkidsmaadhouse · 04/02/2025 22:07

Because the phone was at home in an empty house. No issue with DD’s usage - more I was freaking out that someone else was in our house looking at it. But it seems like the culprit is just the phone vibrating as texts came in and the phone counting it as a pick up. Either that or a tech addicted feline.

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I have never heard of this before, why were you looking at the number in the first place?

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goodkidsmaadhouse · 04/02/2025 22:37

StarsBeneathMyFeet · 04/02/2025 22:17

DD has screen monitoring and restrictions for an iPhone. Recently it has gone crazy. It says she’s been on it 10 hours while she’s in school and she has to have it switched off in her bag. I’d suspect a tech glitch rather than a technology curious poltergeist or mouse 😆

Ok this is also reassuring!

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SpoonyEagle · 04/02/2025 22:35

Sunnyshoeshine · 04/02/2025 22:23

No, you don't need a sim. If im remembering correctly, you acess WhatsApp via the browser and it brings up a QR code. You scan that on your phone and it links your iPad whatsapp to your phone WhatsApp. No extra sim needed.

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It doesn't work for me

Sunnyshoeshine · 04/02/2025 22:23

SpoonyEagle · 04/02/2025 22:14

My ipad is tied into work with my phone and I can't get WhatsApp on it!
I haven't got a sim card in it, as you need a phone number to register

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No, you don't need a sim. If im remembering correctly, you acess WhatsApp via the browser and it brings up a QR code. You scan that on your phone and it links your iPad whatsapp to your phone WhatsApp. No extra sim needed.

StarsBeneathMyFeet · 04/02/2025 22:17

DD has screen monitoring and restrictions for an iPhone. Recently it has gone crazy. It says she’s been on it 10 hours while she’s in school and she has to have it switched off in her bag. I’d suspect a tech glitch rather than a technology curious poltergeist or mouse 😆

SleepToad · 04/02/2025 22:15

goodkidsmaadhouse · 04/02/2025 22:07

Because the phone was at home in an empty house. No issue with DD’s usage - more I was freaking out that someone else was in our house looking at it. But it seems like the culprit is just the phone vibrating as texts came in and the phone counting it as a pick up. Either that or a tech addicted feline.

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Sorry my stupidity!!! I get it. Personally, being in my 50s I've seen technology really screw up over the years so am never surprised...like

A whole days credit card payments not going through for a fairly large insurance company and it taking 10 months to flag so all we could do is phone people up to get payment.
Money that should have been placed in a secure bank account to be invested overnight (like £10m) going to a small sub branch of a rival bank.
A customer calling at 7.59pm and being left on hold for 3 hours! ,why he didn't hang up...
An tv add back when 12 m watched corri going out at 7.55 rather than 6.55....we closed at 8!

SpoonyEagle · 04/02/2025 22:14

Sunnyshoeshine · 04/02/2025 21:44

You can log into WhatsApp from a PC / laptop or an iPad/ tablet at the same time as having it on your phone.

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My ipad is tied into work with my phone and I can't get WhatsApp on it!
I haven't got a sim card in it, as you need a phone number to register

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goodkidsmaadhouse · 04/02/2025 22:07

SleepToad · 04/02/2025 21:33

Why is an issue? Not being argumentative, just don t understand why it's a problem. You know your daughter isn't using the phone, clearly there's a technical problem and really does it matter how many times she looks at it? I mean she could be timing something, recording notes for school, herself singing, as long as she's not abusing screen time rules/looking at dubious content does it matter....I'd be pleased that she's talking to you/doing sport

Because the phone was at home in an empty house. No issue with DD’s usage - more I was freaking out that someone else was in our house looking at it. But it seems like the culprit is just the phone vibrating as texts came in and the phone counting it as a pick up. Either that or a tech addicted feline.

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Sunnyshoeshine · 04/02/2025 21:44

goodkidsmaadhouse · 04/02/2025 21:19

I just tried calling it but that didn’t register as a pick up. I think it must be something to do with that though - although it’s now showing 89 pick ups it’s only showing 13 uses after pick up (6 in settings which was me, 5 WhatsApp which was me, 2 on clock which was probably her doing her alarm this morning).

The only app she has is WhatsApp and I don’t even think you can log into that from
elsewhere? She wouldn’t have given any details to a friend anyway.

You can log into WhatsApp from a PC / laptop or an iPad/ tablet at the same time as having it on your phone.

Letstheriveranswer · 04/02/2025 21:42

You can use WhatsApp on a computer, if you use web WhatsApp and scan a qr code with your phone. Has she logged in on web WhatsApp somewhere and that was being used by someone and triggering her phone's WhatsApp? Do all the WhatsApps on her phone match what she remembers sending?

IJustWantToEatChocolateAllDay · 04/02/2025 21:42

Lovebirdslovetea · 04/02/2025 20:13

Confiscate her devices if she’s got an addiction

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SheridansPortSalut · 04/02/2025 21:41

I think you've got it.
It was the glass table causing it to vibrate more.

SoScarletItWas · 04/02/2025 21:39

SheridansPortSalut · 04/02/2025 21:19

Apparently any slight movement that causes the date and time to pop up will register as a pick up.

Was it on a surface that could have caused greater vibrations whenever the was a notification?

Failing that, it was the cat.

It is always the cat.

Ghostly noise? Cat downstairs

Burglar breaking in? Cat downstairs

Axe murderer coming up the stairs? Cat.

OOOtil2025 · 04/02/2025 21:37

Was it near a washing machine that could have been spinning?

SleepToad · 04/02/2025 21:33

Why is an issue? Not being argumentative, just don t understand why it's a problem. You know your daughter isn't using the phone, clearly there's a technical problem and really does it matter how many times she looks at it? I mean she could be timing something, recording notes for school, herself singing, as long as she's not abusing screen time rules/looking at dubious content does it matter....I'd be pleased that she's talking to you/doing sport

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goodkidsmaadhouse · 04/02/2025 21:25

Ah yes it was on a glass table. Thank you! DH working abroad at the moment and I get stupidly paranoid about stuff when he’s away.

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Seagullsandclouds · 04/02/2025 21:20

If a notification causes the screen to turn on, even if you don’t unlock it, it counts as a pickup.

SheridansPortSalut · 04/02/2025 21:19

Apparently any slight movement that causes the date and time to pop up will register as a pick up.

Was it on a surface that could have caused greater vibrations whenever the was a notification?

Failing that, it was the cat.

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goodkidsmaadhouse · 04/02/2025 21:19

I just tried calling it but that didn’t register as a pick up. I think it must be something to do with that though - although it’s now showing 89 pick ups it’s only showing 13 uses after pick up (6 in settings which was me, 5 WhatsApp which was me, 2 on clock which was probably her doing her alarm this morning).

The only app she has is WhatsApp and I don’t even think you can log into that from
elsewhere? She wouldn’t have given any details to a friend anyway.

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FabuIous · 04/02/2025 21:13

Is it all apps or just one or two, eg WhatsApp/snapchat that you can log in to elsewhere? Has she given her password for them to a friend?

SheridansPortSalut · 04/02/2025 21:10

Perhaps run a test by calling it, texting it or doing something that would cause a notification to see if it registers it as another pick up.

A pick up might be anything that causes the phone to light up

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goodkidsmaadhouse · 04/02/2025 21:04

MagnoliaGirlie · 04/02/2025 20:55

Do you have pets? Sounds silly but could the cat be pawing at it?

We do have cats and I guess possibly…

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MagnoliaGirlie · 04/02/2025 20:55

Do you have pets? Sounds silly but could the cat be pawing at it?

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goodkidsmaadhouse · 04/02/2025 20:42

Letstheriveranswer · 04/02/2025 20:36

What does it register as a pick up? If the screen lights up.for an incoming message, would that be counted?

Seems that it was all after school time when her friends would start texting?

So I did think that at first but yesterday there were 24 pick ups all day - which seems about right for her actually looking at it as she came home straight from school yesterday and did her homework on Google classroom. She gets hundreds of notifications daily as her friends text in a group chat constantly so the numbers don’t add up.

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