The Microsoft Family Safety app helps empower you and your family to create healthy habits and protect the ones you love. Get peace of mind that your family is staying a little safer while giving your kids independence.
Create a safe space for your kids to explore online. Set healthy boundaries to block inappropriate content and limit browsing to kid-friendly websites using Microsoft Edge on Windows, Xbox, and Android. Get notified when your kids want to download a more mature app or game from the Microsoft Store with age limits, keeping you in the know and helping to avoid surprises.
Develop healthy digital habits and provide transparency into your family's activities. View your kids’ weekly activity to help start a conversation about online behavior. Set device time limits across Xbox and Windows. Or if your kids will be on devices longer for things like online learning, set time limits on specific apps or games on Xbox, Windows, or Android.
Microsoft Family Safety features:
Screen time – Develop healthy digital habits
• Set screen time app and game limits on Xbox, Windows, Android
• Set device time limits on Xbox and Windows
• View activity summary of screen time and online usage
• Get notifications if a child requests more time
Content filters – Allow children to explore the internet safely
• Restrict websites and search terms using Microsoft Edge
• Block inappropriate apps and games
Your privacy is important to us. We work around the clock to protect your data and information to help keep your family safe. We do not sell or share your data. We provide you with meaningful choices about how and why data is collected and used and give you the information you need to make the choices that are right for you and your family.
Microsoft Family Safety is subject to the privacy terms (see aka.ms/privacy).
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$99.99
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$9.99
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User Rating
3.77 out of 5
4,181 ratings
in United States
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Useless app
My kids show up on the website but they don’t show up on the app. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled it several times, logged out and back in, etc. I’ve been using mac for so long I forgot how awfully glitchy microsoft is with everything. Ugh.
Inaccurate when it works
Wanted this app to perform similar to iOS screen time but my family’s laptop always shows 3-5min of usage when it is used for hours each day. The time limits don’t work properly locking out the device at the wrong times.
I wish it would work as intended. The only function I that seems to work is the manually lock out function.
Ok at best when it works— which is rarely.
Honestly I can’t imagine how a company like Microsoft releases garbage like this. The product team is either grossly incompetent or hugely understaffed. Crashes nonstop, barely works when it isn’t crashing. I’m not sure why I’m even writing this, because the product team must know exactly how terrible it is.
Annoying pop up every time I open it
There’s an alert that something is changing in November every time I open it. Please let me say “don’t show again” so I don’t have to see it every time I open it!
Doesn’t give kids enough warning before locking them out. A one minute warning would avoid so many conflicts.
Being able to manage CATEGORIES of apps would also be nice instead of each app being individually managed.
Awful app
Does anyone who uses this app understand what we are forced to use it for? I try and fail often to use this app to oversee my child's Fortnite account. Big fail.
Crash
The app crashes when you click the 7 day tab. So the 7 day tab is not working.
Seriously Microsoft
What a horrible system. Whoever created Microsoft family should be fired. What a mess!
Perfect option for parents
Easy to use. Great options. Easy to manage. A great app for families helping children manage technology safely.
Most buggy app ever
What should be a rock solid app, maintaining our kids digital safety, instead is the worst app I have on my phone. Continually locks up and does not allow for what is basic usage. Sadly it appears that the IOS development team cannot compete with the Android team… on that device the app so fine (far from refined or intuitive but at least it does not lock up…. On IOS this app is trash!)
Not sure what purpose it serves?
I cannot find a single reason to have downloaded this app. It doesn’t track usage properly. It doesn’t track spending properly. Why is this even downloadable.