Nowadays, the lives of children revolve around smartphones. Whether a child is a year old or 14-15 years old, they stick to smartphones. Although these days kids require no assistance to operate any smartphone, they often don’t know about right or wrong, especially at the age when curiosity is highest in humans. So, if they are looking at the phone in front of you, it is important to be aware of what they are doing in your absence.
Kids are glued to smartphones for hours. This practice also affects their health. Along with this, there is also a fear in the mind of parents that kids are not watching objectionable content. For this reason, every parent wants their children to stay away from smartphones.
In this tech-driven age, we cannot keep our kids away from gadgets, but at the same time, it becomes important to keep an eye on their digital activities. A solution to this problem of parents is the Google Family Link app.
About Google Family Link App:
Google has designed this app for children to use the internet properly. Google says the app can help your family use the Internet for better purposes. Whether your children are young or teenagers, on the Family Link app, you can make some important rules for them to use the Internet. This will help them to learn, play and understand things better through the Internet. You can install this app on your child’s smartphone and keep access to it. You can install it for free from the play store.
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Benefits of this app
- Track Activities:
With this app, you can track how much time children are spending on a smartphone or tablet. The app contains details about which apps the children have opened on the phone. How much time did they spend time on them? Notably, if an app has been installed and deleted, then its details will also be shown. Knowing these things, you can guide the child.
- Ban apps for kids:
If you find an app that is unnecessary for him, then you can ban it. If the child has installed an app from the Google Play Store, then you can also ban the Play Store. Not only this but apps can also be hidden in the smartphone.
- Limit Phone Time:
If your child uses the smartphone for hours, then you can control that too with the help of the app. In the app, you get the option to set a time limit for the child. The smartphone will automatically lock as soon as the time limit set by you is over.
- Track location:
Through this app, you can locate your child as well. For this, you have to install the app on the child’s phone and keep the location mode on. The advantage of this is that you don’t have to worry about the location of your child, you can track his/her location on your phone.
