'My six-year-old has an iPhone, but one thing she managed to access made me go cold'

A mum was left feeling sick when she saw what her six-year-old was really up to on her iPhone. Laura Jane Courtie said "every parentneeds to hear this" if their childhas access to apps on their phone. Laura explained she was sitting on the couch next to her daughter, who has her old iPhone with "no SIM card in it" so she can only use the phone if it's "connected to the WiFi in the house" or she's connected to her hotspot when they're out together.

"The only thing she uses it for is to send some Snapchats to her cousin, she plays Roblox, and I play Roblox with her, and she's got a couple of games downloaded," Laura explained in a TikTok video.

Laura also said that she "frequently monitors" her daughter's phone, to make sure "all the apps that she's got are age appropriate," and she believed everything was "tip top".

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That is, until her daughter started playing a game in front of her, which left her mortified.

The app was "something about kids toys," but she said she was watching over her daughter's shoulder and thought "what the actual f***".

She asked her daughter "what are you watching on that phone?" because she thought she'd managed to get onto "YouTube or something".

Her daughter said it was "nothing," but she knew she had to investigate when she could hear "sex noises" coming from her daughter's phone.

Laura took her daughter's phone away to have a look, and she said: "It was basically an advert on this app that she's downloaded that's meant to be for kids, by the way. It says on it, for kids, and it's all about matching these toys up on a shelf.

"So anyway, then up pops this advert for a jigsaw, right. It was like match the pictures. And it was this woman, sitting with her legs completely spread right open, and there were three bits down the bottom, and on the three bits were the missing pieces that you had to match".

Laura said the "missing pieces were very graphic," and she was really concerned that this had come up as an advertisement "for children".

She then tried to "put a complaint in about the app" but the website wasn't working, so she left a review in the Apple app store to try and warn other parents about this app. She didn't name the app, which she'd gone on to delete.

Laura said she was "gobsmacked" at what she'd seen, and what her daughter must have also seen, because it was so "graphic".

She urged people to "check the adverts that are popping up on your kids' phones," as she said it was "disgusting" what they may be able to accidentally access through no fault of their own.

Laura exclusively told The Mirror: "I was shocked when I heard the noises coming from my daughter's phone. These were terrible, coming from a kids' app.

"I'm just glad I discovered it when I did, as some of the images were quite graphic and who knows what else could have popped up".

According to the App Store guidelines for developers, the ads "displayed in an app must be appropriate for the app's age rating".

Point 2.5.18 of the App Store guidelines continue: "Apps that contain ads must also include the ability for users to report any inappropriate or age-inappropriate ads".

The app, which we have decided not to name, is at the time of writing not available to download from the App Store.

The NSPCC has advice on their website about keeping children safe online.

Apple was approached for comment.