{"id":231149,"date":"2017-09-29T10:56:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T08:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=231149"},"modified":"2017-09-29T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T08:58:22","slug":"google-rolling-out-family-link-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/231149-google-rolling-out-family-link-for-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Google rolling out Family Link for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/android\/making-android-better-kids-and-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Family Link<\/strong><\/a> controls for Android in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The Family Link app lets parents control their child&#8217;s Android device, with a parent&#8217;s control device needing to run Android 4.4 or higher, or iOS 9.0 and up.<\/p>\n<p>A child&#8217;s target device must run\u00a0Android 7.0 and up &#8211; with certain Android 6.0 devices also supported.<\/p>\n<p>The app lets users:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Manage apps<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Approve or block the apps your kid downloads from the Google Play Store.<\/li>\n<li><b>Screen time<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; See how much time your kid spends on their apps and set daily screen time limits.<\/li>\n<li><b>Set device bedtime<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; Remotely lock your kid\u2019s device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/230993-google-removes-nfc-smart-unlock-from-android.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google removes NFC Smart Unlock from Android<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out\u00a0Family Link controls for Android in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17934],"tags":[397,41974,167],"class_list":["post-231149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-family-link","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231151,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231149\/revisions\/231151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}