Google expands family connection parent control with screen time, approved contacts and more

Google on Wednesday declared A series of updates on his parental control software Google Family Link and a plan for testing new techniques for machine learning to assess the age of users so that it can apply more experiences suitable for age to children’s devices.

The company has said earlier that it will soon use Machine Training to Determine YouTube Users’ Age For better recommendations, but Google tells TechCrunch, it will also test this feature at Google’s account level. This means that it will be applicable to Google products, including but not just YouTube.

These tests of the age assessment model will begin in the United States sometime this year and will expand to more countries in time. Other social media services such as Facebook., Instagramand Tiktok Already use age -appreciation and check technologies.

Meanwhile, Google’s Family Link Parental Link software has also earned several improvements. The app was designed to allow parents or guardians to limit children’s access to content and control various privacy and security settings in a number of services, including Google Search, Photos, Assistant, YouTube, Chrome and others.

Now Family Link is updated to include children’s screen management tools through their Android and Chrome devices while helping children remain focused at school.

A new feature called School Time will begin to unfold next week on phones and tablets with Android, leaving parents “automatically restrict or adjusting” the child’s device at certain hours, and to limit access to certain applications.

Later, parents will also be able to add contacts to their child’s device and then set controls to limit the child only to be able to call or send text messages to the approved contacts. This can be useful when giving phones to younger children who may need to be able to call mom or dad or grandparents, but not others.

Google says this addition will begin to unfold in March.

Children with Android devices will be able to pay at the store using Google Wallet sometime later this spring. Google says parents of Android controlled users under the consent era will be able to add a payment card to Google’s portfolio of his child so that children can use a crane and pay. Parents will also be able to approve of new cards, remove cards, add gift cards and tickets to their child’s portfolio and see the history of the child’s deals.

Teens will have access to more features with AI later this year, including A ”Learn about“AI -generative AI power supply tool that offers interactive training experience, and AI Research assistant NotebooklmS They join the features of AI that teens, such as AI reviews in Google Search, AI Chatbot Gemini and a search round.

According to the threat of further provisions in the US and abroad, Google and other technological giants have begun to introduce additional precautions and functions for the confidentiality of minors. In the case of Google, it began by default for users under 18 to its Safsearch filter, limited sensitive ads, content of age closed on YouTube and others.