Google's Family Link Makes Parents Happy, Can Control Children With This New Feature

JAKARTA - The control feature of parents is increasingly popular in the midst of the widespread use of devices or social media in children. And Google, is focusing on the business.

Google's Family Link app is quite reliable for parents who want to monitor what their children are doing with their devices.

Now, the app is getting better by bringing a design update that sorts apps into three main tabs, namely Highlights, Controls, and Locations, also because Google will improve safety and communication on Family Link.

Since security is the part that creates interesting apps, the company brings features like notification alerts when the device arrives at a specific destination (such as a school or friend's home) and the ability to see the battery life of an individual device.

The feature gives parents peace of mind when their children leave the house.

Others, Google also brings the ability to enable screen time restrictions such as the Only Today option. The limit does not affect other scheduled devices.

Google is also partnering with Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, and the Family Online Safety Institute to help inform users about online security, as well as which version of the web browser app that parents can access for all Google Family Link features from computers.

Launching Digital Trends, Wednesday, October 19, these new features are not only for parents, but also specifically for providing transparency to children's accounts in a family.

With the presence of an update, children's accounts will be informed more clearly about what settings their parents have enabled. Finally, the Family Link app also gets an interface update that embeds the Material You design.