HigherLife's own WhatsApp app
Can my family have WhatsApp without the rest of it?
Yes. Filtered WhatsApp is HigherLife's own WhatsApp app. Your own number, your own chats, messages and voice notes. Status, Channels, Communities and Meta AI gone when you say so. Pictures shaded, videos wait for a tap. Only the people you approve, if that is what you want. A daily limit, hours, and closed for Shabbos and Yom Tov. It opens from its own icon, like its own app. Set up for you, from A to Z.
Watch it on a real phone
A HigherLife phone opens Filtered WhatsApp from its own icon and reaches the one-time link screen: the 8-letter code typed once, on the same phone, and your WhatsApp is yours. Recorded by us.
Your WhatsApp, as its own app
A green icon on the home screen. One tap, and WhatsApp is alone on the screen: chats, messages, voice notes.
Four ready-made settings
Everything · Clean (the extras gone) · Messages only · For a child (only approved people; groups and invites ask first). One tap each.
Who can reach him
Everyone, or only people and groups you approve. A closed chat shows Ask to add; you tap Approve or Remove on My HigherLife.
Time, and Shabbos
A daily limit ("Done for today"). Hours ("Closed until 7 AM"). Closed for Shabbos and Yom Tov by your city, its own switch.
Before and after: the same WhatsApp, the HigherLife way
Press the switch. "Any phone" is WhatsApp as the app comes. "HigherLife" is Filtered WhatsApp on a HigherLife phone, set to Clean.
Meta AI
Ask me anything…Unknown number
📷 Photo · from a number not in contacts"Join my group"
an invite link, one tapA channel you never asked for
Status · Channels · a feed, all dayMommy
Pick you up at 4 ✓Class group
📷 Photo · shadedUnknown number
ClosedAsk to add → a parent decidesZaidy
Good Shabbos! ✓Why HigherLife can do this, and an outside filter cannot
An outside filter cannot see inside WhatsApp; it can only let the whole app in or keep the whole app out. HigherLife owns the app WhatsApp runs in, so the choices are yours, line by line:
| An outside filter | HigherLife | |
|---|---|---|
| Status, Channels, Communities, Meta AI | all or nothing | each one gone when you say |
| Who can reach your child | anyone with the number | everyone, or only people and groups you approve |
| A picture that arrives | shown | shaded, or "Ask to see" |
| A video, a GIF, a file | plays, opens | waits for a tap, or off |
| A new group he is added to | he is in | Ask me first |
| A second WhatsApp account | one tap away | only this account opens |
| Hours, a daily limit, Shabbos | nothing | yours to set, closed by your city |
| When the outside filter has a bad day | wide open | nothing to break: it is our app |
We say what it does, not how. The how is ours.
How a family gets it, from A to Z
- Pick a HigherLife phone. iPhone or Android. Order online and set it up at home, or a HigherLife rep sets it up while you wait, by appointment, at 1622 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn.
- Pick the level. Focus, Balance, Flex or Freedom. $80 for six months or $160 for a year, per phone, paid up front, no setup fee, the same price on every plan.
- Set WhatsApp up on My HigherLife. Pick a ready-made setting or choose line by line: who can reach him, what WhatsApp shows, pictures, videos and files, the daily limit, the hours, Shabbos.
- Press Add to iPhone. WhatsApp lands on the home screen as its own green icon and opens full screen, like its own app.
- Link it once. The 8-letter code, typed in WhatsApp on the same phone. It works the first time. Only this WhatsApp account opens on the phone.
- Answer the asks. Ask to add, Ask to see: you approve on My HigherLife, or get a text when he asks.
What a parent can set
Who can reach him
Everyone, or only people and groups you approve. Group chats, chats from numbers not in contacts, joining a group from an invite link: each Allowed, Ask me first, or Off.
What WhatsApp shows
Status, Channels, Communities, Meta AI, picture cards under links: each one gone when off.
Pictures, videos, files
Photos, videos, GIFs and stickers, profile pictures, forwarded pictures and videos, files, voice notes: each shown or off. Pictures that are shown are shaded. Videos wait for a tap. A picture not shown carries Ask to see.
Keeping it safe
Only this WhatsApp account opens. A looser setting takes effect after 0, 14 or 30 days. What was kept away today and this week, as a count, never the content. A text to you when he asks.
“Built for Jewish life. Made personal.”
Questions people ask
Is Filtered WhatsApp my real WhatsApp?
Yes. Your own number, your own chats, messages and voice notes, on a HigherLife phone as its own app. You link it once with the 8-letter code, on the same phone.
What is taken out?
Whatever you switch off on My HigherLife: Status, Channels, Communities, Meta AI, picture cards under links. Pictures that stay are shaded; videos wait for a tap.
Can I decide who can reach my child?
Yes. Everyone, or only people and groups you approve. Group chats, numbers not in contacts and invite links can each be Allowed, Ask me first, or Off. A closed chat shows Ask to add; you approve on My HigherLife.
Does it close on Shabbos?
Yes, its own switch: closed from candle lighting to nightfall by your city, Yom Tov too. A daily limit and hours are there as well.
Can a child open a second WhatsApp?
Only this WhatsApp account opens on the phone. That is a setting a parent turns on from My HigherLife.
What does it cost?
It comes with a HigherLife phone: $80 for six months or $160 for a year, per phone, paid up front, the same price on every plan, no setup fee.