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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, August 8th. I'm Belle Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

Our phones hold all sorts of information about our lives. They give insight into our friendships,

romantic relationships, our work and play. But they also hold danger for kids whose stressors and anxieties can be seen

through how they use their devices. So should parents be stooping through their kids' phones more?

Then, speaking of phones, Apple made a series of prescient moves that have helped it get ahead of

President Trump's tariffs.

That includes setting a plan in motion years ago to make iPhones in India.

We'll dig into how Apple made it happen.

But first, your child might seem happy and well-behaved, but that doesn't necessarily mean

they're safe from a potential world of danger through their phone.

Our family and tech columnist Julie Jargon joins us to make the case that you should

be snooping on your kid's phone, and why knowing your child's passcode is non-negotiable?

Julie, let's start with that. Why should parents know their kids' phone pass codes?

Because if something unfortunately horrible happens, you know, there's some sort of emergency

or your child goes missing without their phone or some sort of tragic thing happens, you will not be able to

get into their phone ever if you don't have their passcode. And that phone can hold a lot of

clues to what might be going on with a child. I recently interviewed several families whose teens

sadly ended their lives after being targeted in sex-stortion schemes.

And in these cases, these parents were able to access their kids' phones, but they didn't know what was going on in the moment or beforehand.

And they probably never would have known what exactly caused their kids to take their lives if they hadn't been able to go into their

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