Google Family Link User Reviews

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Excelente

100 %

Very great!

I can watch my 21 year old phone all times! I stopped him from meeting strangers and not letting him use it past 6:00 PM! He learned new hobbies like crafts! He brung a tiny knife to his room then ketchup has been coming out! He really has been cooking some food in there because he hasn’t came out since yet!Would recommend for keeping my son safe!
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Not working

This is absolutely not safe app - 0% control. Kids can easily avoid age restrictions; it gives 23 hours bonus time; overwrite weekly schedule and downtime. Makes parents life miserable!

Приложение прекрасное!!

Поставила своим детям, сыночку и доченьке. Но правда после этого сыночка из комнаты перестал выходить, но и сидит вообще тихо. Наверное нашел увлечение! Правда по началу он там очень сильно кричал, наверное радовался!!❤️❤️❤️
А дочь после этого купила много канцелярских ножей, точилок, веревку и мыло скорее всего она начала делать подделки, но она тоже не выходит из комнаты, да и там еще воняет чем то. Из комнаты сыночки тоже воняет.
В общем всем советую!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Location

Location lags

Kid found a way to bypass time restrictions. Google, that’s lame!

Do something about your product, fix it already.

Amazing

This is just amazing !

Sometimes it’s slow

Does what it’s supposed to though

Great for family’s

Have little ones they are all linked to my phone to see what they do how long they are on each app and it’s also a locator gps if lost and online

Best in the industry for parental controls.

When comparing Apple, Microsoft and Google’s parental controls feature, Google has the best setup and probably Apple the worst. Still can be improved- for example it would be helpful to have different downtime and screen time limits for different devices.

I HATE THIS

DO YOU KNOW WHY I HATE THIS? ITS BECAUSE WHEN I WAS PLAYING ROBLOX DUSTY TRIP I ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED MY FAVORITE ITEM AND SUDDENLY MY PHONE SAID ITS TIME FOR A BREAK AND I CRIED IN TEARS BECAUSE I LOST MY FAVORITE ITEM AND I WISH I JUST DELETED IT WHEN I FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS AN NORMAL APP!

Fact:

No child likes it

Why so hard to stop supervision

Now my daughter is 16 I want to stop supervising her. There is no stop supervision option in my account. I searched the web, watched videos, asked chatGPT. The email she was sent when she was 13 she deleted without reading so that’s not an option. Why make this very obviously important function so hard? And it’s not just me I have seen many similarly frustrated users.
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Easy to work around

My children have found several ways around the restrictions I have in place. I cannot block the Google Play Store, which would be helpful as well.

Muy buena

Muy buena

Google Family Link

Appreciate being able to monitor my son’s online activities.

Google sucks

My son is old enough to not be supervised but I can’t figure out how to unsupervised him. The link to do so isn’t there. Web advice says he can do it from his account but he can’t figure it out either. So looking like I’ll have to supervise him for the rest of my life. We’ve spent too much super aggravating time on this already. Google sucks.
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Need help

I do not under how to fully work this system and I wish there were an easy 1.800 number I could call to get help. I don’t want my kids having access to so many things online .

Awful app, everything so confusing!!

Awful app, everything so confusing!! Ties me up in knots just trying to stop the kids accessing stuff!!! Really don’t know what it has to be so confusing!!!!

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