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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Glitches?
The app is great in terms of managing time spent on devices. Although, it doesn't automatically lock when times is up, I've had to manually lock devices and then when checking again, it's automatically been unlocked despite limits reached.
Good app
Great app
Adult content
Kids are still exposed to adult content with ads on games!!! 😔
Super excellent
In the modern day world where we all are busy and leave kids with phones this app is Nothing but God Send, i can monitor screen time, what content my child is exposed to etc!! Love , Love
Powerful
Amazing. Having 3 active boys, you need all the help you can get.
Good app
This app has been very helpful and is a good app to monitor what your kids can watch and also what apps they allowed. I only will like to control their screen time by have fixed times for when they can be in their phones and this app only allows for one time in the day for app to close and open. It would be very beneficial for me to have multiple times for when they need to take breaks at fixed times eg. Open at 6am - close 7:30 - open 12pm -close 14:00 , open 5pm-close 7pm
Please if this can be added to this app. Thank you.
The best app
All families should know about this app
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Amazing App, Let’s You Know What Your Kids Are Up To , Lets You Control Their Activities And Very Safe And Reliable
Helpful
I’ve been using family link for my 2 daughters tablets (aged 6 and 8). I like that I can review and approve or deny new apps and can monitor the screen time (as well as the time spent on which app). So far, it’s quite useful to us.