Google extends parental controls of the family Link with screen time tools, approved contacts, and more
Google Wednesday announcement A series of updates for its parental control software Google family link And a plan to test new automatic learning techniques to estimate the ages of users so that it can apply more experiences adapted to age to children’s devices.
The company said earlier that it would soon use Automatic learning to determine the age of YouTube users For better recommendations, but Google said to Techcrunch, it will also test this feature at the Google account. This means that it will be applicable on Google products, including, but without limiting itself, YouTube.
These tests of the age estimate model will start in the United States this year and will extend in more countries over time. Other social media services such as Facebook,, InstagramAnd Tiktok already use age estimate and verification technologies.
Meanwhile, Google’s family’s parental control software also wins some improvements. The application is designed to allow parents or tutors to restrict children’s access to content and control various confidentiality and security parameters in a range of services, including Google Search, photos, assistant, YouTube, Chrome, etc. .
Now Family Link is updated to include tools to manage children’s screen time on their Android and Chrome devices while helping children stay concentrated in school.
A new feature called School Time will start to deploy next week on Android phones and tablets, allowing parents to “automatically limit or adjust” the child’s device during certain hours, as well as restrict access to certain applications .
Later, parents will also be able to add contacts to their child’s device, then define checks to restrict the child to be able to call or send SMS to these approved contacts. This could be useful when you give younger children who may need to call mom, dad or grandparent, but no others.
Google says this addition will start to deploy in March.
Children with Android devices can pay in stores using Google Wallet later this spring. Google says that parents of Android users supervised under the age of consent can add a payment card to their child’s Google portfolio so that children can use the tap and pay. Parents will also be able to approve new cards, delete cards, add gift cards and tickets to their child’s wallet and see the child’s transactions history.
Adolescents will be able to access more features powered by AI later this year, including a “Discover”Generative tool fed by AI which offers interactive learning experiences and the AI research assistant Notebook. These join the features of AI already offered to adolescents, such as the IA glimpses in Google Search, Ai Chatbot Gemini and Coucle To Search.
Under the threat of stricter regulations in the United States and abroad, Google and other technology giants began to introduce additional confidentiality guarantees for minors. In the case of Google, it began to broadcast users under 18 to its SAFFEEACH filter, to limited sensitive announcements, to age -old age content on YouTube, and more.
