Every teen is different, here’s how to adjust the sensitivity by category

Every family draws the line in its own place, and a thirteen-year-old and a seventeen-year-old are pretty different too. So you can tell Qbit how readily to flag each kind of thing, one category at a time.

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Steps

1. Open “Configure alerts” under your teen’s “Alerts” section.
2. Scroll down to “Sensitivity per category”.
3. For any of Bullying, Self-harm, Depression, Sexual, Violence & weapons, Substance use, Body image, Risky apps / sites and Profanity, tap one of the four buttons: off, less sensitive, default, more sensitive.
4. That’s it. Your choice saves the moment you tap.

Tips

• More sensitive means more alerts, less sensitive means fewer. Every setting is your choice, and you can change it again whenever you like.
• Settings are per teen, so a sixteen-year-old’s account and a thirteen-year-old’s can sit at very different levels.

Good to know

Good to know: Any category can be switched off completely. A small number of the most serious things, such as a harmful reply or sexual content involving a minor, always reach you whatever the settings say.

Updated 20 October 2026