Google Family Link

Google Family Link

By Google

  • Category: Utilities
  • Release Date: 2017-04-13
  • Current Version: 2.52.30338
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 204.26 MB
  • Developer: Google
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 16.0
Score: 4.66227
4.66227
From 240,306 Ratings

Description

Google Family Link is a parental controls app that helps you keep your family safer online. Every family’s relationship with technology is unique, so we built tools for you to choose the right balance for your family, and help them create healthy digital habits. You can use the app to see 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 — Find the screen time that works best for your child. Family Link lets you set daily time limits, with school time and downtime schedules for their devices, so you can help your child find a healthy balance. • Manage your child’s apps — Give your child the flexibility they need when it comes to app usage. Set individual app time limits, and unlimited time for educational or regularly used apps. You can block apps, too. Manage content filters and security & privacy • Manage what they see online — Set up parental controls on Google services like Chrome, Play, YouTube, and Search. Family Link allows you to block inappropriate sites, require approval for new apps, manage permissions for apps and websites, and more. • 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.* *Children over the applicable age can manage their own account. 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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Reviews

  • VERY LIMITED in Parental Control Capability

    2
    By kphays4
    I like that I can set time limits, block certain apps, and set up a downtime. Plus I can add additional time when the downtime has started, but as far as I can tell, that’s pretty much the extent of the parental control capabilities. I want to be able to set a minimum time limit that must be reached for certain app or group of apps before others can be used. I also want to be able to restrict certain types of content in YouTube kids certain keywords that can’t be searched or show up in “related to” videos. For family link to be a google owned app and YouTube kids is google owned, it’s frustrating that there’s no way to restrict content within the app. Outside of the capability issue - family link is CONSTANTLY disconnecting to my son’s tablet randomly. Sometimes it’ll even say it’s still connected, but the tablet is unlocked when Family Link says it’s locked or vice versa. Today, an app that is still on the tablet has completely disappeared from the Family Link. I’m out of ideas for how to get it back without resetting the device and connection…AGAIN!
  • Awesome

    5
    By hippopiuytrefhg
    Best thing ever
  • Great but lacking features

    4
    By jiaswqiajq@'
    This app is amazing, super clean and well designed. However, it’s lacking a few feature such as blocking URLS by keywords, seeing what apps were opened, and a few more. Overall, this app is great but just needs a few more features.
  • Keeps crashing

    2
    By Ligama99
    It used to worked really good. But lately I can’t go in the app to make changes because it keeps showing error “something went wrong”
  • Зависание

    1
    By Alexkiig
    После последнего обновления стало сильно зависать приложение . Также очень часто нет возможности посмотреть по разным устройствам время пользования приложениями. Не отображается статистика приложений , или отображается с запозданием .так стало после последнего обновления
  • Idk how people give this 5 stars

    1
    By bb22089
    This app is completely useless. I spent almost an hour setting it up on mine and my daughter’s phone, and she still has 100% access to all porn sites and explicit content despite typing in the exact websites I wanted to block. It’s a waste of space and time. Thanks for nothing.
  • All data lost!

    1
    By 123MadMom
    Be aware that while this app is very useful in monitoring a child’s screen presence, when it comes time to remove their account it is impossible to do so without deleting the email account and ALL data attached to it. Use a dummy email!
  • Asombroso

    5
    By Eggleidis
    Me encanta xq puedo controlar lo q hace el niño desde my móvil
  • Do NOT recommend

    1
    By LovelyBearOva
    Do NOT download family link if you are planning to get rid of it later on. My mom downloaded family link for my old phone and then as I grew up decided to take it off only to find out that it does NOT go away! Now I cannot get into that phone as it is always locked.
  • Doesn’t update

    1
    By gH native
    The app struggled to update location of user.

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