Monitoring the location, screen time, and apps that a minor uses in Google from your iPhone is possible. You can also set limits to all this from your own phone we tell you how.
Google has various tools for parental control management in different applications as in YouTube by example. But if you want to monitor your kid’s activity while browsing on their phone through Google the best option is Family Link. Family Link is an application created by Google, so that adults, parents or guardians, can remotely control the device of their children or other minors. Familly Link can be used on iPhone devices with iOS 9 onwards.
The parental control system of Family Link works by linking the Google or Gmail account that your child has set up on their Android phone, so if you change your email or account, you will have to configure everything again.
What can you monitor and control with Google Family Link on a minor’s iPhone?
With Family Link you can monitor the time your child spends in front of the screen of your phone that if only on an Android device, and how much of that time is spent with an application and you can set time limits or even block applications.
Also, you can set limits on what you can see in Google Play Store and Google searches block adult results In addition, you can check the permissions for the applications that are installed, such as location, contacts, access to the microphone or the camera.
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Other of the most important functions, is that you can know the location of the minor at all times and you can reset the password of the Google account of the minors and see all the devices where they are using their account Google.
How to activate and configure parental controls for Google Family Link
The first thing you need to monitor and limit the activity of a minor in Google, is to have your child’s device at hand, that both have a Google or Gmail account and install the Family Link application on both phones, your iPhone and your Android. Now you just have to follow these simple steps:
1. Install the application Familiy Link for Parents on your phone, for them download it from the App Store at this link. When he asks who will use the device, click on “Father, Mother or Guardian”
2. You need to have next to the phone of the minor you want to monitor, click Next, set up your account as a family manager. The app will detect the account that you have linked to your iPhone and click Done.
3. The app will ask you if the minor has an account Google, if you already have an account that you are using on your own phone, give click Yes to link to Family Link.
4. Next you will be shown a screen with a nine-digit code that you have to enter on the minor’s phone to link their account to your Family Link.
5. On your child’s phone download the application Google Family Link for children and adolescents that you can download at Google Play at this link. Then, log in with the account of the child or teen to be added.
6. The app will ask if you want to add to the family group, to do this, click click the Join button in the lower right corner of the screen. To continue, click Next, confirm and click click Allow.
7. The app will warn you that it is a third-party application, click click Activate to confirm. Now give the device a name to identify it, and you will have finished the configuration on the child’s device. Now, browse the management options offered by the app and you will only have to click on Configure to see your options.
Clever! It only remains that you establish the permits and time limits and applications that the child can access on Google from their device, location and screen time.