Microsoft Family Safety

3.8
35.5K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

The Microsoft Family Safety app helps empower you and your family to create healthy habits and protect the ones you love. Get peace of mind that your family is staying safer while giving your kids independence to learn and grow.
This app is designed for both parents and kids.


For parents, it helps to create a safe space for their children to explore online. Set parental controls to filter inappropriate apps and games and set browsing to kid-friendly websites on Microsoft Edge.

Help your kids balance their screen time activity. Set limits for specific apps and games on Android, Xbox, or Windows. Or use device management to set screen time limits across devices on Xbox and Windows.

Use activity reporting to better understand your family's digital activity. View your kids’ activity in a weekly email to help start a conversation about online activity.

For kids, it ensures their safety in the digital world by adhering to parental controls and accessing age-appropriate content.


Microsoft Family Safety features:

Activity reports – Develop healthy digital habits
• Activity log of screen time and online usage
• Weekly email summary report of activity

Screen time – Find a balance
• Screen time app and game limits on Xbox, Windows, Android
• Screen time device limits on Xbox and Windows
• Get notified if your child requests more time

Content filters – Explore safely
• Web filters for kid-friendly browsing on Microsoft Edge
• Block inappropriate apps and games



Privacy & Permissions

Your privacy is important to us. We work around the clock to protect your data and information to help you keep your family safe. For example, we do not sell or share your location data with insurance companies or data brokers. We provide you with meaningful choices about how and why data is collected and used and give you the information you need to make the choices that are right for you and your family.

With your child’s consent, Microsoft Family Safety may collect interaction data using accessibility, app usage, and device admin service permissions. This allows us to: know when they are using an app, exit an app on their behalf, or block apps that are not allowed.

Disclaimers

This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities.
Updated on
20 Mar 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.8
35.1K reviews
Dan Stewart
9 November 2024
This app was almost a good idea. Unfortunately the performance ruins the whole experience. Accounts don't recognize each other half the time. Administrators don't have the ability to change some settings on accounts they set up themselves. And on and on and on. Very very buggy. Not worth the hastle.
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Microsoft Corporation
12 November 2024
Thank you for using Family Safety! Sorry to hear you're experiencing this issue. If you could send us more details and logs from the app by tapping on the App Menu/Home > Help and Feedback > Send feedback > I Don’t Like Something > Attach/Include Logs/Diagnostics, we’ll take a look. Thank you!
Bradford White
3 November 2024
App doesn't load correctly. Stops on various pages and requires closing the window and re-opening. Took 5 minutes to add $ to my son's account, and after the app finally worked I received an error message. Seriously Microsoft, I'm trying to give you money. When I click "more info" on why it failed, I'm taken to a generic help window. Not helpful. But first, I'm asked if I want to buy Microsoft 365... So dumb, Microsoft.
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Microsoft Corporation
4 November 2024
Thank you for using Family Safety! Sorry to hear you're experiencing this issue. If you could send us more details and logs from the app by tapping on the App Menu/Home > Help and Feedback > Send feedback > I Don’t Like Something > Attach/Include Logs/Diagnostics, we’ll take a look. Thank you!
Steven “Trae” Brown
26 September 2024
Microsoft Family Safety is absolute junk, probably 80% of the time. Sometimes downtime schedules do nothing at all. Then when they actually do work and I approve my child's request for additional screen time, it's almost guaranteed that THAT won't work. tldr; This app almost never works. If you're looking for something that works on PC as well as Google's Family Link does on Android, this ain't it.
12 people found this review helpful
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Microsoft Corporation
27 September 2024
Thank you for using Family Safety! Sorry to hear you're experiencing this issue. If you could send us more details and logs from the app by tapping on the App Menu/Home > Help and Feedback > Send feedback > I Don’t Like Something > Attach/Include Logs/Diagnostics, we’ll take a look. Thank you!

What's new

- Location Sharing Bug fix.
Thank you for using our app! We're always working to improve your experience, so please keep the feedback coming.