Google Family Group - Stay Connected with a Family Account (2024)

FAQs

What are the disadvantages of Google family group? ›

You won't be able to make purchases using the family payment method. Any pending purchases might still be charged. You'll lose access to Google Play Family Library, and any items added by family members.

People can only join one family group at a time and they can only switch to another family group once every 12 months. Are family group and Family Link* related? Family group and Family Link* are two different services that can work together.

You can use the Family Link App to create a Google Account for your child under 13 (or the applicable age in your country). You can also use Family Link to add supervision to your child's existing Google Account. Important: Family Link may not be available in all countries or regions.

Your child's information, including their name, photo, email address, and Play purchases, may be shared with members of your family group on Google.

Once all accounts are enrolled in Family Link, you can create additional user profiles on your device, and on each profile connect to one of the accounts.

On the day they turn 13, children can choose whether they want to manage their own Google Account or continue to have their parent manage it for them. As a parent, you can also choose to remove supervision at any time when the child is over the age of 13.

When children whose accounts are managed with Family Link turn 13 (or the applicable age in their country), they can decide to: Keep parental supervision for children over 13 (or the applicable age in their country) Manage their own Google Account.

The user will lose access to all shared content and services. The user will also receive an email explaining they've been removed from the family group. Your family payment method will be charged for any pending purchases made by the removed member.

What are the cons of family group conferencing? ›

Negative results include more re-referrals for abuse amongsts children who had gone through FGC (Sundell and Vinnerljung, 2004) and longer stays in out of home placements (Sundell and Vinnerljung, 2004; Dijkstra et al., 2018).

Your child's activity information that we collect may include things like search terms, videos they watch, voice and audio information when they use audio features, people with whom they communicate or share content, and Chrome browsing history they've synced with their Google Account.

However, anyone in the family group can see apps you purchase in the Play Store that say they are "Eligible for Family Library" unless you have gone into your library settings and tell it not to automatically add apps to the Family Library. You can also turn it on and off per app.