Google Family Link

Family Link by Google serves as a parental control application designed to enhance your family’s online safety. Recognizing that each family's interaction with technology is distinct, we have created versatile tools that empower you to establish the ideal equilibrium for your family while fostering healthy digital behaviors. With Family Link's user-friendly features, you can monitor your child's device usage, track their location, manage privacy settings, and much more.

Key Features of Family Link:

Set Digital Boundaries
• Implement screen time restrictions — Family Link allows you to define downtime on your child’s device and impose limits on app usage to help them achieve a balanced digital lifestyle.
• Steer them towards suitable content — Approve or deny app downloads your child requests. You can also select the appropriate YouTube experience for them: a supervised YouTube or YouTube Kids.

Oversee and safeguard your child’s account
• Ensure their privacy — Family Link’s permissions management helps you make informed decisions regarding your child's data. You can view and modify permissions for apps they download, as well as websites and extensions accessed via Chrome.
• Secure their account — Family Link allows you to manage your child’s account settings and data. As a parent, you can change or reset their password if needed, update personal information, or even delete their account when necessary.

Maintain Communication While Traveling
• Track their whereabouts — Keeping tabs on your family while they're out is essential. With Family Link, you can pinpoint your children's location on one map as long as they have their device with them.
• Receive alerts and notifications — Family Link sends important alerts, such as when your child arrives at or leaves a designated place. You can also use it to ring devices and check their battery status.

Crucial Information
• The functionalities of Family Link may vary based on your child's device. For more details about compatible devices, visit https://families.google/familylink/device-compatibility/
• Family Link aids you in overseeing your child's purchases and downloads from Google Play; however, they won’t need your approval for app updates (including those that expand permissions), approved apps, or apps shared from the Family Library. Additionally, approvals for purchases only apply to transactions made through Google Play’s billing system, not alternative systems. Parents should routinely check the apps installed on their child's device and their permissions in Family Link.
• Carefully evaluate the applications on your child's supervised device and deactivate any that you deem inappropriate. Be aware that disabling some pre-installed apps such as Play or Google may not be possible.
• To check the location of your child's device, it needs to be powered on, active recently, and connected to the internet via data or Wi-Fi.
• Family Link's parental controls are exclusive to supervised Google accounts. Children with supervised Google Accounts can access products like Search, Chrome, and Gmail, while parents can set fundamental digital guidelines for supervision.
• While Family Link offers tools to manage your child's online experiences and enhance their safety, it doesn't make the internet entirely safe. Family Link cannot filter online content, but it enables parents to shape their child’s digital time and define a path towards online security that aligns with their family's needs.