Xbox Family Settings

Microsoft Corporation

About this app

"Game time now comes with more peace of mind with the Xbox Family Settings app. Easily manage your children’s activities on Xbox consoles and enable gaming options that are right for your family. Quickly get into the fun by adding your children to your family account in a snap. Set screen time, update content restrictions, and stay on top of incoming friend requests, all in real time.


Please refer to Microsoft’s EULA for Terms of Service for Microsoft’s gaming applications on Android. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions: https://aka.ms/MobileGamingEULA"

Ratings and reviews

DOES NOT WORK!!! Do not download, I used this app for nearly a year and liked it, not really an issue. Then all of a sudden in July 2024 it stopped tracking times accurately and would not work correctly when trying to give more time to my son. Whatever the developers did recently messed it up completely

This is handy to limit kids' use of their Xboxes, but the app itself is problematic. Within the last few months, specifically (likely since the last update). The app just won't load sometimes, and for the last few days, it won't actually report the time they're spending on particular games or apps. This is frustrating and not especially helpful when kids have limits on certain apps but the app won't track the time spent.

So yes MS had Family app but it's lacking features that it should have. One should be able to authenticate through the app. I should just have a pop-up in my app that authenticates me. So when my child asks me to install something or change a setting it's easy for me to get something on my phone. I don't touch the Xbox. And that important because MS will ask you to authenticate constantly. It wasted 1hr setting up the Xbox. The UX with family restrictions turned on is shockingly awful.

What's new

Friending has changed! In addition to friends, your child can now follow others to give new ways to interact with other users on Xbox. Review new and updated settings for friending and following in the social settings with granular controls for these new relationships. Manage new friend, follower, and following relationships for your managed accounts on their social page.