Family Link parental controls
Download this app to your child/teen’s device to use Family Link.
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1.58
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
Cons
- Locks down the phone and restricts access to calls and texts after screen time is up
- Inaccurate tracking of screen time and app usage
- Drains battery quickly
- Causes mistrust between parents and kids
- Complications in changing screen time settings take a long time to process
Most mentioned
- Locks out the phone completely once the timer is up, preventing access to emergency calls
- Inaccurate tracking of screen time and app usage
- Drains battery life significantly
- Creates conflict and mistrust in parent-child relationships
- Delays in changes made from the parent phone not reflecting on the supervised phone in real-time
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1.10
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-20 |  | | I wish it was better, when you have to take a "break" from an app, it won't let you go back on it for the rest of the day, same if your time Is almost up, and after the bedtime thing NO NOTIFICATIONS so my phone gets flooded with discord messages that I can't even look at. This is the worst app installed on my phone, and it's gonna be a long way until it's gone. |
| 2024-09-06 |  | | This app is trash. For one thing, it doesn't let you access ANYTHING when your phone's screen time is up, you cannot get texts or calls, which is problematic and annoying. You can't even take photos, it completely locks down everything. Encourages mistrust and does nothing for helping actually manage your time, only makes you use it up even faster when given more. It drives a wedge of mistrust + resentment in the relationships of kids and their parents, causing conflict and inconvenience. 0/10 |
| 2024-07-21 |  | | Its a terrible app. I'm not doing this because I'm mad or anything but it's genuinely bad. You can't see notifications after it locks, my alarms don't ring, and it glitched when I try to call people. If your phone is on the lock screen it counts it as time. It doesn't track time spent correctly either, I usually have youtube open at the same time as my messaging apps so the time spent is counted as double. When I check my phones built in screen time checker the time is half of what this app says |
| 2024-07-01 |  | | This app is more of a problem rather than a help. It uses my battery too much and I can't access anything once my timer is up. Not even emergency numbers. I can't even use my phone for anything but texting and calling. This app made it so my phone can't process things anymore as quick as they should. It takes ages for youtube to load up, for Google to process my search. Ever since this app was downloaded I couldn't even use my phone the same as before it was downloaded. I do not recommend this. |
| 2024-06-15 |  | | Family Link is a poor choice. It counts time spent on the menu as screen time, and it doesn't help me with time management, it's actually doing the opposite. I spend extra time I'm given faster than I would if it helped. I know how useful this app is to parents, but it's still not ok. If your phone is locked you get one minute for calls, making this app possibly dangerous during emergencies. And when did mistrust become so popular? I can't wait to have my own phone plan and get rid of this app. |
| 2024-06-15 |  | | Recently it's taken forever for allowances (such as allowing more screen time/blocking an app) to actually process and show up on the supervised phone. The parent phone would make a change that would only show up on the supervised phone hours later. This has made things so much more annoying than necessary, on top of regular annoyances with this app. It's started more fights than ones prevented. |
| 2024-06-14 |  | | This app is stupid and it drains your battery. Whenever I change the screentime and the downtime for my kid it doesn't even change anything. I change it from 9 to 10pm for the summertime as a bedtime and it took over 30 minutes for it to even semi work and we both restarted our phones numerous times. Dont know what the problem is, but this app sucks. Dont waste your time on it. |
| 2024-06-09 |  | | I'm in the middle of something on my phone it locks out and says,"Come back tomorrow at 11:00 am"💔AND when I'm in a game,when I'm playing and it locks out,doesn't close out the game SO it keeps me in the app and it doesn't close out until like an HOUR as gone by so I'm just standing in the game.Oh, and when it locks out,it gives you the option to call,but sometimes it doesn't let me press the button to call,so that's bad for emergencies.It takes forever to update your location. HORRIBLE APP!🤬 |
| 2024-05-29 |  | | I would have to agree with the reviews. I don't like it as well, because if you get bonus time, it will take time away. Especially the downtime. It will be locked "Until the next day." Which means you can't look for notifications and text messages, pretty much causing negative attitude and feeling isolated from your friends. It's just like saying you would have to go to a island and be isolated from your phone. |
| 2024-03-30 |  | | This sucks. Even if you get bonus time, it takes time even if it's off. It tracks your location ALWAYS, meaning if someone hacked your phone, which you can't protect because if controls, bing bang boom, youre in the back of a van. Looking at the lockscreen takes time, emergency call does not work, and downtime causes a full lockdown, you can't even look at notifications. This needs to be deleted. |
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