Google Family Link

Google Family Link

By Google

  • Category: Utilities
  • Release Date: 2017-04-13
  • Current Version: 2.23.27002
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 175.73 MB
  • Developer: Google
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 16.0
Score: 4.62561
4.62561
From 191,147 Ratings

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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Reviews

  • Muy bien para cuidar los niños gracias

    5
    By Chaca 45
    Muy buena aplicación
  • stuck in 24 hour time mode

    4
    By blablahzxrew
    Tried all of the troubleshooting steps. The app will not change from 24 hour to 12 hour time.
  • Do not use

    1
    By Jess1234577
    I love the idea of the app. It worked at 1st but now i am not getting notifications to approve the requests. So now i have to redo my sons phone and delete everything off of it and create an adult account for him since their customer service chat is no help. Ive been transferred back and forth for 2 hours with no help.
  • Total control

    5
    It’s a great app to be able to have full control of my child’s phone, I highly recommend.
  • I love family link

    5
    By meconomea
    I absolutely LOVE family link I can lock up my kiddos phone and know they can’t just stay up and play on it. They actually can’t just download any app also I can deny whatever I want also it’s great I can also ring it if lost. I can see my kiddos location also I can set their school address or gradmas address etc to know where they are. You should absolutely try I don’t regret it.
  • Total waste

    1
    By Ricksara
    Does nothing to keep kids off.
  • GPS updates fail

    3
    By O4rItUp
    Trying to locate the kiddos and the location doesn’t update, at one point still showed my kiddos out of state where we had been three days ago… iPhone has “live” location in the finder. When the contract runs out on the kiddos phones we may be going back to all Apple.
  • Control time spent by kids on devices

    5
    By Tes-eth
    This app gives you visibility on the app vis a vis YouTube, tiktok etc your kid is using and hours spent. You can easily regulate and or block as required time spent on a specific app and hour used.
  • Emergency contacts

    4
    By Emergency contact
    I am not happy we can’t control who can go on the emergency contacts, the kids can add to that anytime
  • It’s ok

    3
    By Weylin-Ca
    Works good with Crome book. Could be a lot better with better control.

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