However, these apps are often available for a short time and are then taken off the market, making them even harder to discover. Signs That Your Child Has a Vault or Hidden App While we don’t monitor these hidden apps yet, we can alert you if your child signs up for a new social media account without your knowledge. The danger with these types of apps is that they are likely used to house inappropriate content - usually explicit pictures, videos, or discussions. They’re so secure that some will automatically snap a photo of a person if they use the wrong password. Sometimes vault apps are even used to hide hidden apps, making the content inside even more difficult to access. Like vault apps, they typically require a password to access the content inside. Then there are hidden apps which look innocuous - like a calculator - but are used to hide pictures and messages that teens don’t want their parents to see.
Vault apps store photos, videos, and other apps, and they require password authentication to open.
