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.


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Ratings and reviews

A surprisingly bad app that really shouldn't exist. The phrase "disjointed experience" comes to mind when using this app. A third of the time, it takes you to the Xbox website to complete changes, a third of the time your Microsoft account (again, via the website)... and the 2nd star is for the last third where you can actually make changes in the app. Again though, this app shouldn't exist. There's 3 separate apps. Xbox, Xbox Family, and Xbox Game Pass. Like I said, disjointed experience.

You can set all of your child's preferences but can't go into your own profile to change things like screentime limits or communication restrictions. I also had trouble because it didn't list all of the profiles on my console. I wish it had a remote setting to power down the console but I don't know if that one is out of reach. I would highly appreciate the ability to do that though!

It does work. I can control how much time my kids spend on the Xbox except for the Bonus Time option. Once given it can't be taken and it overrides the time range scheduled. On a busy afternoon, my kids got hold of my phone and allowed themselves "rest of the day". It was a struggle to get them to stop playing for the night time routine. The app was useless on that evening. The only other downside for me is the number of taps one has to do to change the allocated time. It's too high!

What's new

- Select the 'More info' button next to a family member's name to get a quick look at their account info
- Check a game’s rating and details when reviewing the content and multiplayer exceptions list
- A new setting lets family members view and contribute to shared content
- We’ve added new loading screens to let you know when an action is still in process