Google Family Link

Google Family Link

By Google

  • Category: Utilities
  • Release Date: 2017-04-13
  • Current Version: 2.24.27110
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 176.41 MB
  • Developer: Google
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
Score: 4.62673
4.62673
From 192,379 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

  • App does not reflect actual use time of the device

    1
    By F4sure
    There is a screen that shows use time overall and by app. Instead, all I see is zero time everywhere. No matter which app is being use or how many hours, the app shows 0 time spend.
  • Use to be great years ago

    1
    By Nateela Davis
    App has gone done hill. It gives me notifications AFTER my children have been to school over 10-15 minutes. It’s giving two notifications at once sometimes. For instance it’s giving when they left to the bus stop and when they arrive at school at the same time. It’s crazy and needs to be fixed.
  • Not worth it

    1
    By Teresa707209
    I got this app after my son with special needs was not dropped off at his bus stop. Long story short he was over 30 minutes away and scared. This app worked great at first. I had his location all the time, saw when he got to his school, bus stops, etc.. Then it stopped working, and hasn’t worked for months. I have spent hours on his phone and mine making sure everything was on, updated, and corrected. It still doesn’t work. It will update and say he is at home when in reality he is over 8 miles away at school. A lot can happen in 8 miles. I don’t recommend this app to any parents, especially parents with special needs children as it’s not correct in location, locations never work.
  • My teenager kid can bypass App Timelimits

    1
    By Danaka43210
    After a month, My daughter learned how to bypass the app/screen time limit using some YouTube tricks. Even though instagram and TikTok was blocked, I saw her using them shamelessly many times. I felt older after that👨‍🦳 Google need to look at those videos and come with solutions.
  • Don’t get it

    1
    By Miller336
    It’s cool. At first you can monitor your kids can see and check their locations but the second you wanna remove an account there’s no way to do it. You’re supposed to be able to give full access to your 13 year-old child once they turn 13 there is no way to let them go. We tried deleting our entire family. Yeah it just kept saying it was possible. There is no number to call only general questions to hopefully help you but they don’t actually help total waste of time. Don’t get it.
  • Не приложение а *****

    1
    By Диана матчанова
    Фуууу 1 звезда из жалости
  • Okay what the heck how?

    4
    By Idk123456789p
    So I’m a kid and I tried downloading this since I wanted Minecraft on my phone and I tried to send the notification and IT WASN’t THERE, I TRIED EVERYTHING I COULD JUST TO NOT APPEAR LIKE LITERAL I WENT TO YOUTUBE SEARCHED TROUGH GOOGLE, NOTHING WORKED. So if you want to download something that cost money, pls don’t try here it’s kinda hard.
  • 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.

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