Google Family Link reviews
What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 4.6
Google Family Link is a parental controls app that helps you keep your family safer online.
What users love
Бесплатный и достаточный базовый контроль
Родители регулярно сравнивают Family Link с платными аналогами и выбирают его: блокировка контента, лимиты экранного времени, удалённая блокировка и геолокация — всё бесплатно.
Excellent product. The peace of mind this app can give a parent is priceless. Google can stand on business with this app that they made completely free.
Tried Bark and other paid apps. This is so much nicer to use and gives much better controls
better than life 360. easy screen time controls.
What users hate
Бонусное время открывает телефон на часы без ведома родителя
Критический баг: функция бонусного времени либо не отключается после истечения, либо добавляется сама — ребёнок получает 12–20 часов свободного доступа без участия родителя.
Critical bug with "Bonus time"! The child's phone is locked by default. When I grant bonus time (e.g. 35 mins), Family Link FAILS to re-lock the device after the bonus expires! The timer ends, but the phone stays completely wide open, and the child keeps playing for hours.
I am CONSTANTLY having to remove the "bonus time" it is adding on my son's phone. Every day, multiple times a day, it just randomly unlocks his phone for some absurd amount of time. I've seen it give him anywhere from 12 to 20 hours of completely unlimited time on his phone.
the update (no idea what version) give extra bonus to the kids, without my permision. and when i do not check the app, the bonus time become unlimited.
Контроль прекращается при достижении ребёнком 13 лет
В 13 лет ребёнок может самостоятельно удалить надзор — приложение само предлагает это сделать, оставляя родителей без контроля именно тогда, когда он особенно важен.
Not a good option, seeing as once kids turn 13 they can remove it on their own.
too many problems! My wife and I wanted to be able to control our children's online activities, and adjust them as they get older, up to and including age 17. However, you don't offer much for parental control after age 13.
Provide you almost every feature a parent/guardian wants but I found a one big issue in it. The child himsilf also can remove the supervision from his device whenever he wanted without any verification code or something.
Геолокация запаздывает на 30–60 минут
Уведомления о прибытии и отъезде приходят с задержкой от 10 минут до часа; в критических ситуациях это делает функцию слежения практически бесполезной.
A delay of 30-45 minutes in arrival time, with notification received at 4 p.m. or later, is unacceptable given the potential risks during that timeframe.
It does what I need it to do. But it gives location updates 10 minutes after the phone leaves a location. Instead of letting me know as soon as it happens.
gives the wrong location. I have two ring cameras and both showed my kid in the house, while this app said my kid was not home.
Расписания и блокировки не синхронизируются
После изменения настроек устройство ребёнка может не получить команду часами — ребёнок использует телефон сверх лимита, а родитель думает, что всё работает.
App Has Become Trash!! Works Well When You Initially Downloaded But Went Downhill After. It Became Unpredictable On When To Lock & Unlock The Supervised Device. FIX THE SYNCHRONISATION FOR UR APP.
screen limit and down time does not function properly. set the limits and the device does not update. enter password directly on the device and still does not work.
since the latest update nothing works, I cannot change time limits or lock apps on my child's phone