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Ages 8+ · Digital Life · Scams and fakes
Downloading safely
🙋ask first🏬app store✋stop🔽many buttons
Ask first, and use the official place.
The big ideaAsk a grown-up before you download anything, and get it from the official place.

How it works

To download means to copy a game or a file onto your device. It comes in and stays, so where it comes from matters.

Rule one: ask a grown-up first, every time, even if it is free.

Rule two: get it from the official place, your family's app store.

Official stores check what they offer. No check is perfect, so a grown-up still looks.

Stop andthinkAsk agrown-upCheck ittogetherUse theofficialplacePlay
The safe way.
Stop and ask• A page of many download buttons• A page that says 'no store needed'• A file that says 'open me'Fine• A game picked in the app store• A worksheet your teacher shares
Tricks, and fine.

Example 1: Dev's page

  1. The page had lots of buttons that all said download, and said 'no store needed'.
  2. That is two tricks.
  3. Dev took his hands off the keys and took the laptop to Aunt Rosa.

Example 2: Yuki's file

  1. A friend sends a file that says, 'Open me! A secret level!'
  2. Even a friend can pass on a file by mistake.
  3. Say, 'I will ask first.'

Example 3: The proper way

  1. Aunt Rosa opened the family's app store.
  2. She checked who made the game, looked at the age label and read the reviews.
  3. Then Dev pressed get, with her beside him.

Example 4: Pressed by mistake

  1. Anyone can press a button by mistake.
  2. Tell a grown-up and do not press more buttons.
  3. You are never in trouble for telling.

Words to know

download
To copy a game or a file onto your device.
official place
Your family's app store.
trick
A page or a file made to get you to press.
ask first
Check with a grown-up before you download anything.

Watch out

Try it

  1. A page says 'Free, no store needed!' What do you do?
  2. Who says yes to a download?
  3. A friend's file says 'Open me!' What do you do?
  4. Where do you get a game from?
Answers: 1. Stop and ask a grown-up · 2. A grown-up at home · 3. Ask a grown-up first · 4. The official place, with a grown-up
Try at homeAsk a grown-up to show you where your family gets games and apps, and what to do when a page says download.
For grown-upsShow your child where your family gets games and apps, and what to do when a page says download.
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