Microsoft Family Safety

Microsoft Corporation

About this app

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 safer while giving your kids independence to learn and grow.
This app is designed for both parents and kids.


For parents, it helps to create a safe space for their children to explore online. Set parental controls to filter inappropriate apps and games and set browsing to kid-friendly websites on Microsoft Edge.

Help your kids balance their screen time activity. Set limits for specific apps and games on Android, Xbox, or Windows. Or use device management to set screen time limits across devices on Xbox and Windows.

Use activity reporting to better understand your family's digital activity. View your kids’ activity in a weekly email to help start a conversation about online activity.

For kids, it ensures their safety in the digital world by adhering to parental controls and accessing age-appropriate content.


Microsoft Family Safety features:

Activity reports – Develop healthy digital habits
• Activity log of screen time and online usage
• Weekly email summary report of activity

Screen time – Find a balance
• Screen time app and game limits on Xbox, Windows, Android
• Screen time device limits on Xbox and Windows
• Get notified if your child requests more time

Content filters – Explore safely
• Web filters for kid-friendly browsing on Microsoft Edge
• Block inappropriate apps and games



Privacy & Permissions

Your privacy is important to us. We work around the clock to protect your data and information to help you keep your family safe. For example, we do not sell or share your location data with insurance companies or data brokers. 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.

With your child’s consent, Microsoft Family Safety may collect interaction data using accessibility, app usage, and device admin service permissions. This allows us to: know when they are using an app, exit an app on their behalf, or block apps that are not allowed.

Disclaimers

This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities.

Ratings and reviews

Functional, but can do with refinement. For example, why can I only set time in 30 minute intervals? The deal breaker for me is if you promise your kids time and then the app can't connect to the backend, which effectively keeps you locked out of the device until someone eventually notices and fixes it. Had to go a whole rainy weekend in the past without being able to give my kids more time on their devices. That's unacceptable.

It gives me my son's usage report. I can set how many hours a day he can use the PC and I can set from what time it can be opened and it shuts the screen at the time I set it - and that's one of the problems I have with it - it only shuts down the screen, but the audio from gaming apps and com apps still go on. I also can't seem to block certain sites in the browsers so my son plays online games thru the browser. I would have given it a 5 if it weren't for those. Better than nothing.

App has become unusable. Used to be quite good. Takes ages to load. Payments fail, then I got charged twice and Microsoft didn't credit my daughters Xbox account, I asked for a refund for the £20 they took, this was refused, the after lots of form filling via an automated system I got £10 back, still £10 down. I can't trust this app anymore. It takes your money and doesn't credit your account and you can't speak to an actual person at Microsoft regarding refund. Really bad service I'm afraid

What's new

- Location Sharing Bug fix.
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