Google Family Link

Description

Google Family Link is a parental controls app that helps you keep your family safer online. We know that every family's relationship with technology is unique, so we've designed tools like Family Link that give you the flexibility to choose the right balance for your family and help them create healthy digital habits. Family Link's easy-to-use tools allow you to understand how your child is spending time on their device, see their device location, manage privacy settings and more.

With Family Link, you can:

Establish digital ground rules
• Set screen-time limits – Family Link lets you set downtime for your child's device and time limits for apps, so that you can help them find a healthy balance.
• Guide them to age-appropriate content – approve or block apps that your child wants to download. Family Link also allows you to choose the right YouTube experience for your child: a supervised experience on YouTube or YouTube Kids.

Manage and secure your child's account
• Protect their privacy – permissions management in Family Link allows you to make meaningful choices about your child's data. View and manage permissions for websites and extensions accessed through Chrome, as well as apps downloaded on your child's device.
• Secure their account – Family Link gives you access to manage your child's account and data settings. As a parent, you can help change or reset your child's password if they forget it, edit their personal information or even delete their account if you feel that it's necessary.

Stay connected on the go
• See where they are – it's helpful to be able to find your family when they're on the go. With Family Link, you can locate your children on one map, as long as they're carrying their device.
• Get notifications and alerts – Family Link delivers critical notifications, including when your child arrives at or leaves a certain location. You can also ring devices and view the device's remaining battery life.

Important information

• Family Link's tools vary depending on your child's device. See a list of compatible devices at https://families.google/familylink/device-compatibility/
• While Family Link helps you manage your child's purchases and downloads from Google Play, they won't need approval to install app updates (including updates that expand permissions), apps that you have previously approved or apps that have been shared in Family Library. In addition, purchase approvals will only apply when your child makes a purchase through Google Play's billing system, and will not apply to purchases made through alternative billing systems. Parents should regularly review their child's installed apps and app permissions in Family Link.
• You should carefully review the apps on your child's supervised device, and disable those that you don't want them to use. Note that you may not be able to disable some pre-installed apps such as Play, Google, etc.
• To see the location of your child or teen's device, the device must be turned on, recently active and connected to the Internet through data or Wi-Fi.
• Family Link parental controls are only available for supervised Google Accounts. With supervised Google Accounts, children get access to Google products like Search, Chrome and Gmail, and parents can set up basic digital ground rules to supervise them.
• While Family Link provides tools to manage your child's online experience and keep them safer online, it does not make the Internet safe. Family Link cannot determine the content on the Internet, but it can give parents the opportunity to make decisions about how their child spends time on their device and determine what path to online safety looks best for your family.

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User Rating

4.52 out of 5

2,835 ratings in Ireland

5 star

2,153

4 star

346

3 star

140

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1 star

146

Ratings History

Reviews

Not fit for purpose

Terrible app, limits on individual apps don’t work.

Can’t get payeble apps

Hey, The app works brilliant, any free app my child likes to download will look for my approval, but once it’s an app for money, I don’t get a request, so he’s not able to get it. For example Geometry Dash.. he can’t play it because I can’t find a way for him to download it! Can you help?

Don’t do it. You can’t remove a child ever

Search online and you will see once you added a child you can’t ever remove them. It’s crazy stupid.

Location data

Location is not updating. Keeps showing 20 hours ago data.

It doesn’t work

Location on the new update for this app is faulty and not working. didn’t agree to new update so very disappointing. Older version was better.

Slow

Good for setting up parent controls however half the time it doesn’t implement the changes or it’s very slow to implement.

Almost brilliant

For some reason the app limits do not work. If I put a time limit on an app it expires immediately. it’s a real shame because the idea is brilliant

Dangerous

Every time they update the app. All apps are getting blocked, not just selected ones. Including ones the kid can contact parents.

Good concept but lacks one thing

Overall a good concept on keeping an eye on your child’s device etc but it tells you after they have installed an app what they have installed and THEN you can confirm or deny it . This can take some time for the notification to hit your phone too . It should be a pop up there and then to say whether you accept or deny the installation of it

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Top Free	Poland Utilities	16
Top Free	Ukraine Utilities	18
Top Free	Austria Utilities	22
Top Free	Belarus Utilities	23
Top Free	Belgium Utilities	26

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