Real screens from a Shield at home, one job per clip. Every clip is under two minutes and plays here on the page. Device names are stand-ins for the family's; nothing else is staged.
Recorded on Shield software v2.2, September 2026. Screens change a little with each update; the written guides are kept current with every release.
Nine features in one pass: filtering, one rule on one phone, school-night hours, Follow-Me, its own Wi-Fi, movies and computer backups, who looks up your websites, speed, and nothing leaving home.
One take, no cuts. Left, the Shield's dashboard; right, the phone, live. TikTok is ticked for this phone and saved; the videos already downloaded run out, then nothing new loads and the app reports no internet. One tap undoes it. The rule closes the app's main route and the backup route it switches to when the main one is blocked.
A rule on one child's phone, the other phone on the same Wi-Fi unchanged, then undone with one tap.
Sunday to Thursday 9 pm to 7 am, a later night at weekends, and 15 to 60 minutes' grace when homework runs late.
Pause one phone's internet and resume it; let one computer skip the filters while its internet keeps working.
Give each device a name, see what it says about itself, and keep the rules with a phone when its Wi-Fi address changes.
The seven protection layers, the most-blocked sites, and this month's counts, all kept on the Shield.
One switch blocks an app on every phone, laptop, TV and console in the house; the count at the top updates.
Your own lists: block a site the filter missed, allow one it got wrong, take it back out.
Other DNS apps and hidden browsing are shut down at the network; each device shows Protected, Watching or Check device.
Automatic, Shield or External, switched on camera: the Shield asks the internet's own address servers, so no DNS company builds a profile.
The Shield measures its own detour all day: 0.01 ms on this unit, with the 24-hour graph and lookup timings.
No app on anyone's device, no account, no cloud dashboard; the support file you build yourself, and what never goes in it.
Add a phone, scan the code with the free WireGuard app, and read the 24-hour record. The phone's owner can switch it off, and it depends on your home internet: why that is by design.
Saved networks including airport and lounge Wi-Fi with a sign-in page, a real switch to a hotspot and back home.
A Jellyfin library playing in the browser, apps on TVs like Infuse on Apple TV, and a backup drive for any computer in the house, shown here with a Mac and Time Machine.
From the Dashboard to All done: detect the modem, type its login, and the Shield configures it. The setup itself is sped up.
Check for updates, and the automatic-updates switch on and off. Nothing about your home is sent.
Every clip was recorded on a Shield Vault. Pause and internet hours per device are on every Shield; per-device app rules are on Shield Edge and Vault; Follow-Me, cable-free travel Wi-Fi and Time Machine are Shield Vault. Compare the three, or ask which one fits.
