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A phone-free campus, without collecting a single phone.

Students keep their own phones. During school hours each one locks on campus and unlocks after the last bell, and your deans see who has tried to get around it. No pouches, no lockers, nothing for staff to hand out.

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Someone has to enforce it.

Writing a phone-free policy is the easy part. Whether it holds depends on who enforces it, every period, every day. Here’s what each option asks of your staff.

  • Phone pouches

    Staff hand out and unlock a pouch for every student, every day, and a decoy phone in the pouch goes unnoticed. Yondr lists a pouch at $30 ($27 on a Texas purchasing co-op) before replacements.

  • Lockers and caddies

    Staff run a check-in at the door, and nothing tells you which student kept a second phone back.

  • “Off and away”

    Every teacher enforces it alone, until one has to take a phone from a student in front of the class.

LockedIn

The phone enforces it. It locks on campus during school hours, and the dean sees by name who never installed the app, deleted it, faked a location or signed in on a second phone.

LockedIn compared with YondrInstead of pouchesInstead of lockersModel five years of pouches

How a phone-free day runs.

One student’s day, and what your dean’s dashboard shows by the last bell.

  1. 7:52

    Arrives on campus

    When a phone crosses your campus boundary during school hours, the apps your school blocks lock (at Guided Access schools, students lock in with a triple-click). Either way, there’s nothing for staff to check.

  2. 10:14

    In class

    Blocked apps stay locked until the last bell. Calls home and the apps your school allows keep working.

  3. 11:02

    If there’s an emergency

    One tap on the dashboard unlocks every phone on campus, and every student can tell staff they’re safe or ask for help.

  4. 3:10

    Last bell

    Phones unlock (at Guided Access schools, students step out the way they locked in). Nothing to collect and nothing to hand back, and anyone who tried to get around it is already flagged for the dean.

The dashboard at the last bell. Sample school and student names.

Set it once. It runs every school day.

Your part happens on one kickoff call. After that, the schedule does the work.

  • Your campus boundary

    Drawn on a map of your school, with you, on the kickoff call. A phone inside it during school hours is locked.

  • Your bell schedule

    With early-dismissal days, breaks like spring break, and free periods if your policy allows them.

  • The apps that stay open

    At most schools the Phone app is never locked, and you choose any other apps, for every student or only some, and for set times if you like. At schools that use Guided Access or screen pinning, the apps you allow are websites that open inside LockedIn.

  • Who gets the alerts

    The administrators you choose, usually a dean or assistant principal. Teachers stop confiscating phones.

  • Students with medical needs

    At most schools, put a student on a 504 plan and LockedIn blocks only social media, games and entertainment for them. At schools that use Guided Access, exempt them from one rule instead.

  • Students without a phone

    Opt them out from their row on the dashboard, with a note on why, or leave them off the roster, and nothing changes for them. A student left on the roster without the app shows up as Never Installed.

Your state may already require it.

At least 41 states and D.C. have passed laws restricting phones in school. Of those 42 laws, 24 keep phones away from the first bell to dismissal. Most require a policy and leave enforcement to the school. LockedIn helps you enforce and document the policy your state requires.

Bell to bell: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, D.C..

Look up your state’s lawWrite and enforce the policy

What families ask first.

Whether their child can reach them, and what the app can see. Here are the short answers, from our privacy policy.

The page for familiesPrivacy policy

  • Can my child call me?

    Always. Students can call home or 911. At most schools the Phone app is never locked; at schools that use Guided Access or screen pinning, a student can step out of LockedIn at any time, and the dean sees that they did.

  • What can it see?

    Whether the phone is on campus and whether it’s locked. Never texts, photos, browsing, or which apps a student opens, and no location after school.

  • Does the school control the phone?

    No. There’s no device-management profile, so the school never takes control of a family’s phone.

  • What about emergencies?

    One tap unlocks every phone on campus, and each one lets a student tell staff “I’m safe” or “I need help.”

Live within a week.

Setup takes about a day. The rest of the week goes to the launch, and we’re with you for all of it.

Setup
About a day: your boundary, your bell schedule, and your roster from Clever, Veracross, Blackbaud, OneRoster or a CSV.
Launch
A 30-minute training for the deans and front office, the family letter, and students installing with their school email. We watch the dashboard with you through week one.
Price
Per student, per year, with a written quote for your enrollment. No hardware to buy, store or replace.
Starting small
A pilot with one grade or one campus. Title I schools can apply for subsidized or fully covered access.

How pricing worksApply as a Title I school