Help keep your family safer online

Family Link provides tools that respect families’ individual choices with technology, helping them create healthy, positive digital habits. With easy‑to‑use tools, you can understand how your child is spending time on their device, share location, manage privacy settings, and find the right balance for your family.*

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Establish digital ground rules

Set screen time limits

Find the screen time that works best for your child. Family Link lets you set downtime for their device and time limits for apps, so you can help your child 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.

Establish digital ground rules

Set screen time limits

Find the screen time that works best for your child. Family Link lets you set downtime for their device and time limits for apps, so you can help your child find a healthy balance.

Family Link UI highlights time spent by app.
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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.

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Google Play Books
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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. You can 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.

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. You can view and manage permissions for websites and extensions accessed through Chrome as well as apps downloaded on your child’s device.

Family Link UI shows app permissions with the ability to toggle settings on and off.
App permissions

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.

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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.

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.**

Family Link UI highlights location pins of family members on Google Maps.
Kids
Family places
Casey
Elementary School
56% Just now
Blake
Fox Cinema
87% Just now
Emma
Rob’s Cafe
15% Just now

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.

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