T-Mobile® FamilyMode™

T-Mobile USA

About this app

FamilyMode is the all-in-one family safety solution that can help you locate your family in real-time and improve online habits for your kids across devices. From pausing Internet access for dinner, to rewarding good grades with more screen time, FamilyMode helps make digital parenting easier.

We’ve added some new features:

WORRY LESS ABOUT A LOST DEVICE
Find a lost phone by ringing it

LET YOUR FAMILY KNOW YOU NEED HELP
Send out an SOS alert with the touch of a button

STAY IN TOUCH WITH YOUR FAMILY
Check-in and share your location with the touch of a button

While keeping the features you’ve come to rely on:

SET HEALTHY DIGITAL HABITS
Set time limits for your kids, pause Internet access, or give screen time as a reward

STAY IN THE KNOW WITH REAL-TIME LOCATION
Know where your kids are and the path that they took to get there

SET CONTENT FILTERS.
Use pre-set or custom filters to help ensure your kids only see age-appropriate content online

Note: FamilyMode uses Google Accessibility Services API to enable parents to set up parental controls on their children’s phones to protect them from unwanted or dangerous content. No information is processed or collected using this API except for the purpose of blocking the content defined by the user.

Ratings and reviews

This app drains your phone battery and has the nerve to tell you not to use your battery saver. You can't see someone's current location if their phone is dead, TMobile! Additionally, TMobile charges you $10/month for this app, which does very little in comparison to other locator apps. Don't bother with this. Try the Life360 app instead. Better, more features, no battery drain.

Works great if VPN is ON and not turned off or uninstalled. This app is very frustrating on the iphones. Have no problem with android. Found a work around on an android phone to prevent family mode app from turning off or uninstalling VPN. But for an iPhone I totally gave up. No 3rd party apps can prevent VPN from being turned off or uninstalled. Low battery with turn off VPN. Setting of VPN can be turned off with a swipe. I don't think this can be fixed

Applying filters to children's phones results in the slowest Internet connection. Half the time, it's almost like it's on 3g. Getting to the point where it may not be worth paying for. There are other filtering software that probably is worth the price by not slowing things down to a crawl. Clearly they need to apply more bandwidth and processing power to their filtering VPN.

What's new

Accessibility notification for parents
Parents are notified whenever the accessibility permission is disabled on their child’s device. Enabling this permission prevents removal of the FamilyMode app and VPN. This also allows the device to be locked during Bedtime and Off Times.

Location sharing notification for children
FamilyMode notifies children on their Child dashboard whenever FamilyMode is sharing their location with other family members.