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

When the app works, it's good. More often than not, it gets a bug, it stops working, it stops giving location info (& when it is giving me location info, it's not exactly accurate). Right now it is infected again & won't even stay open. This means my kids can use their phones unrestricted, my teens can disappear with people they aren't supposed to be with, & I can't even fix that in the app. What the hell am I even paying for?! Fix this app b/c I'm betting Verizon can do better.

Terrible. Hassle to manage, doesn't work half the time, I finally got rid of it. I used this for a couple years to monitor my kids' phone usage. It sort of worked. But I spent a lot of time troubleshooting, etc. Every once in a while, it would update or something and the kids phones would have to be set up again. Location worked sporadically, there's a limit to the number of sites you can blacklist manually, the filters for adult content have lots of missing URLs. More trouble than it's worth.

This app causes the phone to slow, it drains the battery WAY quicker than normal, and it doesn't even work properly. Tracking the location doesn't work as it should, the Wi-Fi blocking doesn't actually block the Wi-Fi, it only slows the phone down (which is done as soon as you download the app). To top this off if you want anything to work you must restart the phone everytime something isn't working as it should. I wouldn't be surprised if I need a new phone after this.

What’s new

Simple onboarding with preset protection levels

Parents choose a level, and the child’s device is automatically configured.