Google's Family Link App !

Google has come up with an awesome app for parents that will allow parents to monitor their child's activity. This app will help parents to see what their kids are doing on their Android-based smartphones and will also allow them to control their activities with a number of options. Nowadays Kids are much smarter than we were, the kids know all the kind of functionalities that a smartphone contains and make sure that they use each n every feature of their phone, If the kids are spending most of their time on their phone then this can really give a headache to their parents as they don't really know what their kids are doing on their smartphone and what kind of activities they are performing on it.

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• Google is endorsing this app as a parental control app but this app can be used to monitor anyone's activity.If you want to monitor your loved one's activities then this app is for you, you can use this Family Link app and can monitor your loved one's activities and have an insight to their usage.

• Once you’re able to download the Family Link application, you’ll be asked to create an account for your child and you can then add it to their very own Android device. This secondary account will be connected to yours and it will give you direct control over the one you just created. Once everything is setup, you’ll be notified of pending downloads for applications that were initiated on the child’s device. You can choose to approve or deny these requests at will, so you’ll know what applications are on the device.

  

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• Family Link app will help a parent to know that how much time their kids are giving to a particular application and this Family Link app will also send a weekly or a monthly report of kids activities to the respective parents.

  

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• This Family Link app will also allow you to set a time limit of usage for your kid, if you want that the person is only allowed to use his/her smartphone for particular hour, you will be able to do this by using this app and once the time limit gets over, the phone will get locked automatically.

• Parents can also set a particular bedtime in the Family Link app. Let me tell you this feature automatically locks the phone at the set time. So, it simply means that you can control other Android devices with your device.If you want to have a restriction on one of your family member regarding the usage of the phone, then this option can really do wonder for you.

  

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• The app also features some other additional things like SafeSearch, managing app permissions, know their kid’s location. This app also let users assign other family members to control their kids’ account.


• This app is currently available for US people right now and after analyzing the response it will get, this app will me made available to other countries as well. However, You can make a request for this app by using your Google Account so that you can get notified once this app is available in your country. Another negative point of this Family Link App is that the person or the child whom you want to monitor needs to be using Android Nougat 7.0 that is the latest version of Android and your phone must be above Android Kitkat 4.4 to use this App. Go to this link and make a request for using this Family Link App.

This is a great initiative by the tech giant Google to come up with this sort of application that can really prove helpful for the parents who keep worrying about their child activities and apart from just being a parental control app this app can also be used by other section of people to monitor activities of their loved ones.