Smart Family Companion

Verizon Consumer Group

About this app

Verizon Smart Family is your partner in parenting, with family location sharing to find your kids or their lost phone, parental controls to limit screen time and block content, and encourage safe driving habits with driver insights.
Download our parental controls app to your Android smartphone, and pair your child’s device to:
• gain screen time control
• filter apps and website content
• block Internet access
• view device usage
• manage calls and texts
Select Premium to unlock:
• location tracking with family locator
• arrival/departure notifications
• location sharing with pickup requests
• driving insights such as safe driver score & drive activity history
• crash detection alerts
• ability to find a lost phone

Sign up for Premium and try all features for 30 days on us ($9.99/mo thereafter)*.
*After 30-Day Trial period, your Smart Family Premium service will auto-renew at $9.99/mo unless you cancel before trial period ends. Cancel anytime through Smart Family app.
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Once the child’s Android smartphone or iPhone is paired via the Verizon Smart Family companion app the parent app can configure parental controls. If enrolled in Premium, parent app can also view location tracking and driving history – for either a driver or a passenger.

Ratings and reviews

-7/5, this app is a literal pos. Everything you would expect from it(blocking & filters, data pausing, etc) is buggy and pretty much unfinished. The pausing schedule is really buggy and sometimes pauses me at a complete random time. I also have to power off my device for a few minutes(not restart) after I get unpaused. Blocking is also broke, not letting me use any google services (including Google Classroom), Spotify, and Netflix even though they are all not on the filter my dad set up.

This app is not child proof. If you click on the VPN icon on the notification bar, a screen pops up for a split second that says deactive. If you are fast enough a child can deactive the companion app and all the controls to go along with it. Go ahead kids, give it a try. Maybe when the parents complain enough, Verizon will fix it. When it does work, the app is great.

Horrid app. Blocks the dumbest things and can't function properly. Ruins the point of having a phone. Blocks things that aren't even inappropriate. It's annoying and completely ruins the function of the phone. I would rate it 0 stars if it was possible. Location is also off point, much easier to just send my location via. messages.

What's new

- Bug Fixes