Phones were the problem. We made them the solution.
A 20-minute walkthrough with a map of your own campus.
Student or parent? Set up LockedIn
Two sample screens at 10:14 in the morning: a student’s phone, LockedIn until the end of the school day with only school-managed apps open, and the school’s LockedIn dashboard, showing 1,198 students locked in and 4 who need attention.
Stories and articles about LockedIn
“Schools can review activity and send infraction notices quickly.”- EverythingLubbock“Student-developed app allows connectivity without distraction”
“Redefining Technology’s Role in Education and Human Connection”
Introducing LockedIn.
Phones automatically lock on campus and unlock after the last bell. Delete the app or use a burner phone, and your dean is notified. Teachers don’t have to do anything.
- Calls to 911 and family always work.
- Never sees texts, photos or browsing.
- Setup takes about a day.
Privacy at its core.
One tap reaches every phone on campus.
- 1Every student can call 911 and family at once. No pouch to unlock.
- 2Each student answers I’m safe or I need help with one tap, and staff see who has answered on a live map of campus.
- 3Admins chat with any student who asks for help. Positions are shared only while Emergency Mode is on, and erased when it ends.
Need phones fully open? Unlock every phone on campus, a grade, a group or one student from the dashboard in seconds, for a set time or the rest of the day.
A sample lockdown: the student’s phone shows Emergency Mode with the school’s message and “I’m safe” and “I need help”, and the school’s dashboard shows the roll call and the two students who asked for help on a map of the campus.
Live within a week.
Setup takes about a day. The rest of the week goes to the launch, because a phone policy succeeds or fails on how it starts, and that’s where we spend our time with you.
Launch plan
- Day1Kickoff call: we map your campus boundary and bell schedule with you
- Days1–2Roster sync from Clever, Veracross, Blackbaud or OneRoster, or a CSV upload
- Days2–3A 30-minute training for the deans and front office who will see the alerts
- Days3–4The family letter goes home, with our parent FAQ attached
- Day5Students install the app and sign in with their school email
- Week1Launch week: we watch the dashboard with you and fix what comes up
Every other option needs someone watching.
- Ease of enforcement
- LockedIn: Fully automatic
- Phone pouches: Manual, labor-intensive
- Compliance visibility
- LockedIn: Dashboard for deans
- Phone pouches: None
- Emergency access
- LockedIn: Calls always work, one-tap emergency check-in
- Phone pouches: Inaccessible, stuck in a pouch
- Unlocking phones
- LockedIn: Campus, grade or student, from the dashboard
- Phone pouches: One pouch at a time, at an unlocking base
- Workarounds
- LockedIn: Flagged by student name
- Phone pouches: Easily bypassed
- All-in cost
- LockedIn: One license. No hardware
- Phone pouches: Hardware + replacements + policing
See LockedIn at your school.
A 20-minute walkthrough with a map of your own campus.
Questions schools ask first.
Something we didn’t cover? Ask us on the demo, or write to hello@lockedinapp.co.
Yes. LockedIn has native apps for both, with the same lock, alerts and dashboard. Students download it once and sign in with their school email.
Yes. Students can always call home or 911: the Phone app is never locked, and the apps your school allows keep working.
Very little. During school hours it checks whether the phone is on campus and whether it is locked, plus a few device signals that give away a workaround. It keeps no coordinates, and it never collects texts, calls, the photo library, browsing, contacts, or which apps a student opens. There is no device-management profile, so the school never takes control of the phone. Read the privacy policy. See how the lock works on iPhone and Android.
They will try, usually in the first week. Phones lock automatically on campus, so there’s no step for a student to skip. A student who never installs the app, deletes it or fakes their location is flagged on the dashboard by name, and a second phone needs your approval before it counts. Never installing becomes a violation on its own once you launch.
Mark them on their row on the dashboard, with a note on why, or leave them off the roster you send us. Then nothing changes for them. A student left on the roster without the app shows up as Never Installed, and once you launch that counts as a violation every school day.
Add the student to a 504 plan from their row on the dashboard. LockedIn then blocks only social media, games and entertainment for them, so a glucose monitor or another medical app keeps working.
No. Teachers stop confiscating phones. Alerts go to the administrators you choose, usually a dean or assistant principal, and follow-up emails go out automatically. What changes for teachers
The setup itself takes about a day: your campus boundary, your bell schedule and your roster. The rest is the launch, meaning staff training, the family letter and students installing the app, and we’re with you for all of it, including the first week.
LockedIn is priced per student, per year, with no hardware to buy or replace. We send a written quote based on your enrollment, you can start with a pilot, and Title I schools can apply for subsidized access. How pricing works
Most state laws require a phone policy and leave enforcement to the school. LockedIn enforces your policy and keeps the records that show it is working, for your board, your families or your state. Where a state requires phones to be stored away or kept off the student, LockedIn works alongside that storage rather than replacing it. Look up your state’s law