Who can still see your baby's monitor?

The babysitter needed the monitor on Saturday. By Monday, the visit is over, but their camera access may still be there.

A connected baby monitor makes that easy to overlook. You set it up to check on your baby from another room, then add a grandparent, a caregiver or a second phone. Over time, the list of people who can open it may stop matching the people you expect to be watching.

Start with that list. A better password won't remove somebody you deliberately invited, and turning the sound down on your phone won't remove them either.

Nanit's app provides a useful worked example: it has separate controls for who can watch, when they can connect and what recordings they can see. If you use another monitor, look for those distinctions in its account and camera settings.

Remove access that has outlasted its purpose

In the Nanit app, open the side menu, select the camera if you have more than one, and open your baby's settings. Review the parenting team. An Owner or Admin can tap a member and choose Remove camera access.

Look for invitations as well as people who have joined. If you sent an invitation to the wrong address or no longer want it used, open that invitee and choose Remove invite. Only the person who sent the invitation can revoke it. Once accepted, it needs the member-removal control instead. Nanit's member and invitation controls

Repeat the review for each camera. If someone used your own login rather than an invitation, removing their name from a team list won't address that shared password. Change it, then give any access they still need through their own account.

This is easier to maintain if the arrangement has an end:

I'll give you monitor access while you're looking after the baby. I'll remove it when we no longer need it, and please don't save or forward recordings.

Give a visiting caregiver the access they need

An Admin has broad control, including inviting people and changing their access. Check the other Admins too, so someone you remove isn't invited back by another relative who missed the conversation. A Viewer has narrower access, with extra restrictions you can adjust. In the same team-member settings, check Account type, then the Viewer's Restrictions. Recorded moments, Memories, live audio and talking through the camera are separate choices. A person who only needs the live view doesn't necessarily need the saved clips too. Nanit's roles and restrictions

For someone who only needs the camera while physically looking after your baby, Nanit has Local WiFi-Only Access. Open the camera's settings, choose the team member, make sure they are a Viewer, then choose Access Type → Local WiFi-Only Access. It allows viewing while their device is on the camera's Wi-Fi network and blocks it when they leave that network. Nanit's local-access instructions

That could suit a babysitter in your home. It won't suit a parent who needs to check the monitor while away. Decide which situation you're setting up before choosing it, then have the caregiver check that the live view works while you are both there.

To pause a Viewer's access without removing them, choose Disable Access under Access type. Nanit says changes can take up to a minute to reach their app. Nanit's access controls

Restrictions on saving inside an app don't make a view impossible to copy. Anyone watching could photograph the screen with another device. Keep the agreement about recordings even when you've limited the buttons they can use.

The local-Wi-Fi restriction applies to that person's access. It doesn't turn Nanit into a system that keeps all data inside your home. Nanit processes recordings and account information, and says access to its systems is limited to authorized personnel for support, safety or legal purposes. If keeping footage from the provider is your concern, changing a caregiver's permissions doesn't address it. Nanit's privacy and security explanation, privacy policy

Turn off the camera when you mean to stop capture

Sometimes you want the room to be private while you're in it. Sometimes you only want the phone to be quiet. Those need different controls.

In Nanit's live view, open the three-dot menu → Turn camera off. Nanit says this suspends video and audio capture, Insights collection and notifications. You can turn it back on from the live view when you need it again. Nanit's camera-off instructions

Use this when you're not relying on the monitor to watch from somewhere else. Before the next time you need it, reopen the live view and confirm the camera is on and showing the room.

The app's audio controls do different jobs. Background audio lets you listen while doing something else on the phone. Audio off, in the camera's Sound settings, turns off its microphone and sound alerts. Neither is the same instruction as turning the whole camera off. Nanit's camera and audio settings

Check what remains after the camera is off

A saved clip can outlast the moment you were monitoring. In Nanit, existing Memories remain available even after an Insights subscription expires, so cancelling a plan is not a way to clear that collection.

To remove a saved Memory, open it, use the three-dot menu and choose Delete. Nanit says this removes the video and ends the parenting team's access to it in Memories. Nanit's Memories controls

If you downloaded the clip or sent it to a relative, deal with that copy too. Removing a Memory from the monitor app won't delete a video already saved on someone else's phone.

Before sharing a nursery clip, watch and listen to the whole thing. There may be a conversation in the background or a moment your child will later want kept private. If a relative only wants to see how the baby is doing, you can send a chosen picture through your family photo-sharing arrangement instead of giving them an open view into the room.

When you're finished with the monitor and want the company's stored data removed, make that a separate request. Nanit's privacy policy gives [email protected] as its privacy contact and provides for deletion requests subject to applicable law. It describes retention for service, legal and other stated purposes rather than giving one deletion deadline for every type of data. Nanit's privacy choices and retention policy

Name the account and ask which recordings and baby-profile information will be deleted, what must be retained, why and until when. Ask for written confirmation that separates completed deletions from retained records. That gives you a date or reason to follow up, instead of treating an empty Memories tab as proof that everything the company held is gone.

Protect the account used to open the camera

Give the monitor account a password you don't use elsewhere. Nanit now says two-step verification is required at login. Keep the phone number used for its text-message code current, so changing phones doesn't leave you locked out. The account controls are under side menu → your settings → Account security; keep the app updated on each phone or tablet you use. Nanit's current sign-in requirement, account-security instructions

Update the camera's own software as well. The FTC recommends automatic security updates where available, a protected home router and encryption for both live and stored camera footage. Encryption helps keep footage from being read by someone who intercepts it; it doesn't remove a person whose account is still allowed to watch. FTC camera-security guidance

If you have a specific reason to think someone has accessed the camera without permission, contact the manufacturer's support team and describe what happened and when. Nanit says its privacy investigations can review access logs and speaker-use records with permission; it also says changing the account password forces logged-in users out. Nanit's privacy-concern process

An unexplained sound or connection problem alone doesn't tell you who caused it. Record the time and what you observed so support has something concrete to investigate, and remove any access you no longer intend to allow.