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ABSTRACT Riski Ana Putri Siregar, NIM : 2517013 with a thesis title: The Effectiveness of Using Kids Mode to Control Smartphone Use During Online Learning for Elementary School Students, Sosa Timur District, Padang Lawas Regency, North Sumatra. Informatics and Computer Engineering Education Study Program, IAIN Bukittinggi, 2021. This research is motivated by parents who cannot control students who use smartphones when learning online. Various problems are caused starting with not being able to be monitored, controlled, and guided at all times beside the students and the busyness of parents in their work. However, students also who use smartphones do not only focus on learning but also use smartphones to play games, social media and others when learning online. Problems found, a solution is needed to solve a problem controlling the use of smartphones during online learning. Based on the problems above, the formulation of the problem in this study is how effective the kids mode application is to control the use of smartphones in online learning at SDN Sosa Timur District. The purpose of this study was to see how effective the kids mode application was to control the use of smartphones in online learning at SDN Sosa Timur District, Padang Lawas Regency, Sumatra. The type of research that researchers use is a type of quantitative research. With a population of SDN Papaso II and SDN Pir Trans Sosa 1A class VI with a total of 66 people. The sampling technique used is purposive random sampling, namely the technique of determining the sample by considering the characters and characteristics that have been determined in advance to limit the sample. While the test instrument used is a questionnaire with a Likert scale 4. The validity test of the questionnaire is valid with a value of rcount > rtable and a reliability test of 0.866> 0.70 which means reliable. The results of the study after being processed using SPSS obtained a hypothesis of 0.784 which means that H1 is accepted H0 is rejected, namely "The use of kids mode applications to control smartphone use during online learning is effective and can be used in improving student learning outcomes, with an effectiveness of 61.5%. So, the use of the Kids Mode Application during the COVID-19 pandemic was effectively used as a tool used by parents in controlling students in the midst of busyness, so that in this way parents no longer worry about their children when using smartphones. Keywords: kids mode, smartphone, online learning.