Google Family Link

Hi, I'm the kid whose phone is affected by this! A couple of notes on the things: One, LET ME SAVE MY THINGS, OR SAVE FOR ME BEFORE YOU LOCK. I cannot count how many times I was in the middle of a game, and it locked the app before I could save, and ALL my progress was gone when I got back into the app the next morning. Second- Can I set an alarm and have it go off during my downtime??? PLEASE???? I need an alarm set for school otherwise I sleep in and the alarm barely goes off. fix your app :(

I despise this. I'm the one who has to have it, and it used to be little things. I had two hours a day. Then less. Then half of that. And I thought, okay, I'll make the most of it. It says I spent a full hour on my device, when all of the apps I use add up to 40-45 minutes. Really annoying, and when the downtime is on, you cannot do anything but call, apps are completely locked, unless time is added. Not like iPhone where you can press five more minutes, or one more minute. I hate it. Don't use.

used to work well. had it on tablets, then it stopped working. couldn't start downtime. couldn't unlock or give bonus time. Now we have it on a phone and it's doing the same thing. they gave suggestions that didn't work. the last option was to factory reset. I shouldn't have to do that when it's clearly the app with the issue on all 3 of our devices.

I downloaded this app when I set up my toddlers device(after setting up their email account, so it automatically created the family link which is honestly pretty cool) and it’s helped so much in teaching them the rules we have for screen time. Being able to lock the device when it’s time to be done has helped with the time management and has helped create a schedule that works well for us, because once the device is locked my toddler immediately starts working on a different activity outside of the screen. Previously, switching activities was a bit difficult because they’d be locked onto whatever it was they were doing but having a visual sign that it’s time to be done helps them switch that part of their brain off and turn to something else. I honestly dont know how I never heard of this app before now

This used to be a really great app and I really found it easy to use but now you have to be a developer to understand how to use it. It is so frustrating and aggravating. I think I might need to find a new parental app to use that is more user-friendly, because this is just mind-boggling, I would’ve given it a five star rating as it was before but now like I said, I can’t understand it and when I thought I had changed the permissions for my daughter to have unlimited time while she was away with her friends but it’s it’s locked… it shouldn’t be locked it… I just can’t find the words to how disappointed I am now. Even my IT wife says that the app is now very difficult from what it used to be. It is really truly totally disappointing.

I made a google account many years ago when I was at the age where I needed a guardian account to link with it. I didn’t actually use the account very much then, but now, many years later where I am way beyond the age where I need a supervised account I have it linked with other software accounts. Now family link doesn’t allow me to basically do anything and me and my mom have been trying for the past week to get this wretched curse off of our accounts. We have iPhones so Im not sure if it works better with androids. Google family link is unremovable if you are on iPhone. No tutorial, no link, no tech support can help you remove this binding. I can’t even log in to family link through my “child” account because the page refreshes every time. Can someone PLEASE tell me why this is happening and how to fix it?? DONT USE FAMILY LINK PLEASE!!! P.S. : It may seem pathetic that the review about a restriction app is coming from the person being restricted but the only reason my mom didn’t write this review is because she doesn’t want anything to do with it. We are both so unsatisfied and still can’t lift the lock on both of our accounts. She can’t remove family link because I’m above 13 yet I still have restrictions!!!! Why can’t I change my age? Awful app and software.