Google Family Link

Google Family Link

Google · 4.6 ★ · FREE

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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 have 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 that you can help your child find a healthy balance.
• Manage your child's apps – give your child the flexibility that 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 and 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 that it's 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 at 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 that you have previously approved or apps that have been shared in Family Library. In addition, purchase approvals will only apply when your child makes a purchase through Google Play's billing system and will not apply to purchases made through alternative 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 that 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 teenager's device, the device must be turned on, recently active and connected to the Internet through data or Wi-Fi.
  • 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 cannot 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 their family.

Developer

Google

Developer ID: 281956209

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What's New

Version 2.84.40306 · 11 May 2026

New simplified design and screen time tab.

Ratings & Reviews

App Store

4.6

4,155 ratings

N/A downloads

Google Play

4.5

5,052,586 ratings

100,000,000+ downloads

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Recent Reviews

Aneita 2010

Google Play

for the past few months ive noticed that the scheduling isnt working, Ive set the weekly schedule for start and end of downtime but every day it is not following, meaning I have to set it daily, when I remember! doesnt always notify me of location unless I open the app and keeps unblocking an app. ive done all the checks so dont need to be told what to do the app is just not working anymore.

11 May 2026

Marco Ottaviani

Google Play

Reviewed comment as solved ... 5 stars!

11 May 2026

Buba Jabbi

Google Play

it's really good for your children and they can have less screen-time

11 May 2026

RAJA CHEF

Google Play

good

11 May 2026

Blessing Manyadza

Google Play

it should work over Bluetooth or something

11 May 2026

JJLau09

App Store

Cannot lock

Sometimes already set apps limit or dairy limit, but kids still can play just like no setting.

26 Apr 2026

Becky4real

App Store

Notification for movements

The notifications for movements are most times coming way later not when the action happens.

18 Mar 2026

Didumdidum

App Store

Late and random updates

Please recheck the system, seems like there is a bug still. I am getting updates of leaving and arriving times at ungodly hours. Example, Leaving at 3.30am and Arriving at 3.45am. The phone was at home all along. Nobody left anywhere.

11 Mar 2026

Shanmugam ep

App Store

Looks weak controls

Looks weak controls. Children has easy ways to bypass controls set in here

22 Jan 2026

Xuejie Zhang

App Store

Features are too limited

Can you add the following featres? 1) allow setting limits per category of apps (videos, social, tools etc) instead of setting apps one by one which is very troublesome 2) allow setting same limit for a list of selected apps instead of one by one which is very troublesome 3) more flexible schedule of locking phone as easy as setting a calendar invite

1 Jan 2026

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