Downtime settings
The downtime settings controls need an overhaul. Take a Quick Look at the Microsoft version. As parents we need to be able to designate multiple times on the day when the device is off limits
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 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 you can help them find a healthy balance.
• Guide them to age-appropriate content — Approve or block apps 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 allow 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 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 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 will not need approval to install app updates (including updates that expand permissions), apps you have previously approved, or apps that have been shared in Family Library. In addition, purchase approvals will apply only when your child makes a purchase through Google Play’s billing system and will not apply to purchases made through alternate 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 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 powered on, recently active, and connected to the internet through data or wifi.
• 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 can not 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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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 you can help them find a healthy balance.
• Guide them to age-appropriate content — Approve or block apps 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 allow 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 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 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 will not need approval to install app updates (including updates that expand permissions), apps you have previously approved, or apps that have been shared in Family Library. In addition, purchase approvals will apply only when your child makes a purchase through Google Play’s billing system and will not apply to purchases made through alternate 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 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 powered on, recently active, and connected to the internet through data or wifi.
• 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 can not 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
4.43 out of 5
3,418 ratings in New Zealand
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2,419
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522
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168
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Ratings History
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Parental code pain
I added a school account to the Orginal kids gmail account on a chrome book and now it always asks for a parental code even set to not to ask for a code at login. There is no option to remove parental control for this user as they are under 13. All very painful to use.
App will not open
App has stopped working. It will not open. Title screen only for a few seconds then it shuts down. Please fix.
Comes with one big flaw
For a year, I though this app was great. Then I discovered that it’s fine when managing only one device per child. Once your child has multiple devices, all needing managing, for some reason one rule fits all devices. Need 6 hours for a Chromebook at school? Great, the child can also have 6 hours on phone and tablet as well. 18 hours per day. Can’t be altered. Need to block one device? Great block them all at once. Need to allow an app on one device but not another? Nope, no can do. It is absolutely disappointing that there is so much granularity, but where it really matters, across devices, there’s none. Find a better app for your multi-device needs.
App not working properly
Alot of bugs
Horrific
An absolute buggy, overcooked mess. Half the time commands for extra time don’t go through. And notifications for requested purchases don’t come through at all, so no way to install paid apps.
Doesn’t seem to work very well
When my son sends approval requests the app sends a notification, then I open the app and then there’s nothing there. End up having to manually type word into my sons device! If only there was a better option!
The most amazing app ever !
The most amazing app ever invented for patents.
4 star rating
Would be helpful if we could create our own schedules for the Devices. Were we name it and set a start time and end time. In stead of just having a down time schedule and I think we should also be able to customise the Lock Screen message on those Devices that have been locked for a specific reason.
Useless
Family link is the worst family app I have ever used. Once my son turned 13, I wanted to remove family link, but it wouldn’t let me delete his family link account, it kept saying “You cannot delete a family link account if the person is under 13” My son is over 13! Worst app ever!
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Keywords
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App Info
- Category
- Utilities
- Publisher
- Languages
- Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Central Khmer, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek (modern), Gujarati, Hebrew (modern), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Kirghiz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Panjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Chinese, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Zulu
- Recent version
- 2.36.28445 (3 weeks ago )
- Released on
- Mar 28, 2018 (6 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, Brazil, Russia, France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Italy, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Poland, Colombia, Turkey, Chile, Canada, India, Israel, Taiwan, Argentina, Egypt, Netherlands, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Romania, Australia, Vietnam, South Africa, Belgium, Czechia, Thailand, Portugal, Dominican Republic, Finland, Austria, Belarus, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Philippines, Hong Kong, Norway, Peru, Ecuador, New Zealand, Slovakia, Ireland, Singapore, Denmark, Pakistan, Slovenia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Algeria
- Last updated
- 5 hours ago