Six months after launching the FamilyLink application on a single invitation, Google officially launches the service for all parents in the United States.
With a quick summary, FamilyLink allows parents to monitor and monitor the use of their children's devices so they can see which applications are most frequently used by regular reporting.
Parents can "lock" the device when it's time for something more productive, while they can block access to certain applications and a regular "sleep" of about 9 hours on school nights when you set different (or not) weekend limits.
To use FamilyLink, the application must be installed on both child and parent devices. The children's phone or tablet must work with Android Nougat 7.0 or higher, although the parent device only requires KitKat (4.4) and later. Since the original limited launch in March, Google has launched an application for iPhone users, even if only for parents - due to limited access to iOS devices, it is not. It is not possible to control iPhones or iPads via FamilyLink.
So far everyone who wanted to use FamilyLink had to ask for access while the company folded the folds. From today, it will be available to anyone with compatible devices in the US. Although there are no concrete plans for international deployment, it is likely to happen in the future. "We hope to expand FamilyLink outside the US, but we do not have any specific information to share beyond that," said a spokeswoman for VentureBeat.
FamilyLink can be automatically downloaded to your child's device during the initial setup - if you enter your child's birthday when you create a Google Account and find that they are under 13 years old, you will need to give it your consent the FamilyLink application. Alternatively, you can download the app manually from the Google Play Store.
The FamilyLink application basically resembles the Google Restricted Profiles feature that was released with Android 4.3 a few years later, except that the restricted profiles only worked on the tablets and it was more likely to control a device that you give or lend to a child - parents could not control the remote control of their own device.
FamilyLink should turn out to be a popular tool for affected parents, and it already shows up on some third party Android devices like the Tanoshi Android laptop, which is open to pre-ordered by kickstarter earlier.
