Microsoft Family Safety

Microsoft Family Safety

By Microsoft Corporation

  • Category: Lifestyle
  • Release Date: 2020-07-28
  • Current Version: 1.26.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 155.43 MB
  • Developer: Microsoft Corporation
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 14.0
Score: 3.7034
3.7034
From 3,793 Ratings

Description

The Microsoft Family Safety app helps empower you and your family to create healthy habits and protect the ones you love. Get peace of mind that your family is staying a little safer while giving your kids independence. Create a safe space for your kids to explore online. Set healthy boundaries to block inappropriate content and limit browsing to kid-friendly websites using Microsoft Edge on Windows, Xbox, and Android. Get notified when your kids want to download a more mature app or game from the Microsoft Store with age limits, keeping you in the know and helping to avoid surprises. Develop healthy digital habits and provide transparency into your family's activities. View your kids’ weekly activity to help start a conversation about online behavior. Set device time limits across Xbox and Windows. Or if your kids will be on devices longer for things like online learning, set time limits on specific apps or games on Xbox, Windows, or Android. Microsoft Family Safety features: Screen time – Develop healthy digital habits • Set screen time app and game limits on Xbox, Windows, Android • Set device time limits on Xbox and Windows • View activity summary of screen time and online usage • Get notifications if a child requests more time Content filters – Allow children to explore the internet safely • Restrict websites and search terms using Microsoft Edge • Block inappropriate apps and games Your privacy is important to us. We work around the clock to protect your data and information to help keep your family safe. We do not sell or share your data. We provide you with meaningful choices about how and why data is collected and used and give you the information you need to make the choices that are right for you and your family. Microsoft Family Safety is subject to the privacy terms (see aka.ms/privacy).

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Reviews

  • Lost features

    1
    By gdaviskpg318
    The app no longer notifies you when a family member leaves or arrives in a specified location. And in November there will be no location or drive features? Well then you app is useless to me.
  • Time limits ignored

    1
    By JHC13
    Such a deeply flawed and poorly designed app. Xbox time limits are consistently ignored. The Family Safety app reports “Time limit reached today” but my child is able to keep playing without limits. Contacting Microsoft support to troubleshoot the app is tedious and slow, and the solutions they offer (completely reset the Xbox, use the web site instead of the app to set time limits, etc) are at best temporary. The last time we did a full Xbox reset, the app worked for one day and then reverted to infinite playtime. The app is so disrespectful and dismissive of family safety that the app name seems like a cruel joke
  • Doesn’t allow setting screen time limits for self (adult)

    1
    By pseudopsyche
    I was hoping to use this like I do screen time limits on Apple platforms to limit my own screen time in specific things, but it only supports child accounts.
  • iPad stuck on location sharing prompt

    1
    By Gamer Guy 100
    After logging in I can’t get past the prompt to choose whether to share my location. So the app is not accessible at all.
  • Manual device lock & unlock

    4
    By kpsam2000us
    The manual device lock & unlock is still not working. It’s been months:-(
  • Money added to kids accounts never shows correctly.

    1
    By Gr8hifi
    I have this app to manage my kids money for games. They will try to buy something, I’ll get a notice. I go to approve and the only option is to add money. The spend balance will show $0.00 when I am pretty sure they had money. I add $10.00 and then get greeted with a “ balance is now $18.00” message. I feel like this is the plan, keeping parents adding more money to the MS balance. It’s been a consistent problem across different child accounts. And it has me trying ti steer them towards other gaming systems as a result.
  • HATE IT

    1
    By Mythicfr
    I hate it because my grandma uses it on me
  • Broken app DO NOT DOWNLOAD

    1
    By Tiredofbadgames
    This app has been broken for over 2 months. What’s worse is that there isn’t a way to uninstall it once it’s on the computer and set up. My daughter, who is homeschooled, has been essentially locked out of doing school on her computer for 2 months. We have tried every possible solution we know and nothing works. When clicking “allow website” to give permission to my daughter, it pops up an error message every time and will not let her go to any websites on the computer. I’m highly disappointed in this app from Microsoft.
  • It does the bare minimum

    3
    By bit-cmdr
    Not the best UI and the fact that they took away management across devices just makes it that much more painful to use. I have to do everything twice now. Would be nice if it had schedules to save too, I only have my kids half the time and they have different screen times with their mom. I have to go through everything twice for each kid every week. It’s a monumental pain.
  • Broken app

    1
    By Poodlepow
    For 6 months this terrible app has been unable to advance past the Location access onboarding screen. Press the button. Nothing happens. It seems Microsoft has no QA process? Worthless

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