@💖{°×.EMA.×°}💖 I'm an adult but I don't have this app. I know someone younger than 18 that has this and I think it's a terrible parenting tool. I also know exactly what this app does for you guys cuz I've tested it with my two phones. I'm very against this app for anyone.
I'm literally 15 and my grandparents use this fucking app, it gave me more stress after they downloaded app, when I try to vent or talk with my friends, my grandparents always block my phone in random times. And for example, if you have android, on the lock screen there is only one icon for 'contacts' when I try to call my parents this mf comes up: "time for a break, your parents have locked this device" like what if you're in an CAR accident? How are you able to call your parents? I know my opinion might sucks but ok..
@@JoeChip yes, but you can make up a birthday to make them think your 10 when your actually 15 or something like that, that'll keep family link on until your 18.
As someone who has been controlled by family until the age of 13, I hated every single second. I was restricted so much. And remember - the stricter the parents, the sneaker the kids. I managed to watch RUclips, search questionable stuff, and even start a RUclips channel. If I ever have kids, I will rather talk to them and talk about their screen time than trust an app that damaged me.
Trust me, 100%, your kids won't listen to your "talks" about screen time. It's not entirely their fault: the internet aggressively attempts to get eyeballs on screens and kids aren't equipped to navigate that alone. The internet is also a cesspool and most parents are just trying to protect you from the stuff you should not be viewing, and to help you set healthy life-long screen/technology habits. If you interpret that as controlling and causing damage, that's a real shame. But please give your parents the benefit of considering that they are trying to do the right thing in a very new and wild age of technology. Personally I'm a child of the 80s and my parents really only had to intervene about television - there were no computers at home and certainly no internet. There was limited ability for me to be exposed to things that were completely inappropriate for my age. Of course I wasn't completely naive, I saw nude magazines and such, but on a scale absolutely dwarfed by what is readily available on the internet now.
@jirskyrjenkins1959 I see where you're coming from, however I'll still hate family link forever. When I was just a little kid controlled by it, I didn't learn how to manage healthy screentime without it feeling like a chore, so the second I no longer was monitored by family link, my screen time immediately skyrocketed and I was spending hours upon hours a day just to "compensate "
Right. My mom used to have it. She didn’t know it was that bad! I couldn’t do anything on the phone. Like no really. I couldn’t even search popcorn because of the key letters p r o and n
I just say to her a couple week back. that i need to search something that related to online school so she removed the cursed app. (She was away from the house)
Yo my phone locked at night, and in the morning my mom tried unlocking it and it wouldnt work. My location told my mom that I was two towns over. Messed up app. Hate it, sorry but until they fix it, I will hate it.
i understand the bit of wanting to protect your kid and wanting to make sure that they're being safe and making sure they don't spend too much time on the phone but damn family link is just encouraging parents to be overly controlling and protective i personally don't own a phone, which is good and i'm glad my mom doesn't know about this and i'm glad i own a laptop where i have privacy and freedom gggg i feel absolutely terrible for kids who have controlling parents like this,, and i really wish that i could help in some way i hope you're having a nice day, and thank you for posting this video, joe chip
My parents set up family link so I can have a Gmail account and they just signed in on my phone when they gave it to me. Now I can’t download text now and WhatsApp to talk to my friends
I feel bad, kids like RUclips and Play Games. They shouldn’t get RUclips kids and no Play games. I would choose Apple instead of Google. They just limit it like they think kids shouldn’t play games or watch RUclips and have locked apps. Then, WHAT IS THE POINT OF THE PHONE?! See, there is no point.
Family link is more than just useless. It sometimes breaks emergency services, background processes count as screen time, and google outright disables settings that are not "child-friendly" like developer options. I feel like google thinks that we are clueless about technology (I use Arch BTW). The restrictions recently got disabled because I reached the age of 16 (I dont know if it's an EU regulation or just germany and nearby countries), but this was still unnecessary. Most of my apps were also sideloaded, so i couldn't update them for a while.
if you have a computer, you can just use ADB to remove the app time limit should be gone afaik you can also enter recovery mode on boot and just wipe everything and start anew. it varies between manufacturers, but usually it's a power key and a volume key held at the same time
Duude im 14 and I still have google family link.. i dont have my own privacy. How did I still have family link? My father won't let me download apps, I can download games from oppo app store but the games are not updated🙂
I'm very lucky in a way because I knew my parents were going to use this on my new phone and I set it up with a sub-account that I don't use anymore. and I'm actually plotting a way to hack myself out of family link because I just hate it.
I hate family link, the worst part is that when u turn 13 ur parents either force u to click Keep Supervision OR make ur age younger than 13 every single time it's so horrible, and btw have dealt with a family link it was terrible I always have to get my parents permission from apps even tho the apps r for my age, like if the apps r like 1% chatting or 1% multiplayer he will not accept it
My parents placed family link in my phone and I can’t even buy anything online for my school stuff. I nearly broke my phone but I was able to calm myself down.
Just before watching this, I saw an ad for Rope Spider Swinger or something, featuring Spiderman but yellow. Google can't be arsed to take blatant copyright infringement off their store, or ads for it off their platform. They also let games get away with breaking the law by not offering refunds if you refuse to agree to their illegal ToS. Silence. Ignoring the problem. Always.
I'm honestly sick and tired of Google. They try to come off as socially responsible when, in fact, they are among the worst companies out there. There attitude towards customers, creators etc is absolutely indefensible. Just yesterday I tried to contact them over an ongoing issue where subscribers don't seem to be seeing my videos (I have fewer than 1% or views coming from subs), but all I got was a generic, automated response that literally had nothing to do with my question. If someone could come up with a viable alternative to RUclips, I'd jump ship in a heartbeat.
@@JoeChip Yep. They're immoral and astounding cheap and lazy for one of the most powerful companies in the world. People see illegal and objectively false ads all the time. There's not even a token nod to customer support. I dearly hope the inevitable end of all corporations claims them soon when their sloth allows someone else to do it better (and provides an opportunity for more competition for others in their rise).
I agree. I would honestly like to see the end of Google. They are so bad I’m even considering a return to Apple for my next phone and that was something I never thought I’d say.
What I want to see is family link get shut down because whenever it's back to school my dad sets this up I'm ten but when family link is around I feel like a 3 Year old
In Greece it works until 15 and I am 14,5 and I have it it's soo annoying I can't disable it until I'm 15 and I'm turning 15 at October. I have a day limit 2 hours, bedtime from 9pm to 10am that is the most annoying part and when I go to the play store I can't download anything because it says that I need to ask a parent, so I only have 2 games on my phone and each of them 5 minutes app limit. An other annoying thing is as you said we don't have Google play, so I can't save my progress. Also we don't have freedom and privacy if we must ask our parent for everything, and if our parents can see our location. Also when I go to a friend and I take my phone there I feel really embarrassed when my phone locks because I'm a teenager and my friends don't have this trash so I feel uncomfortable when my phone locks. Family link sucks and I hope it will be banned.
look I'm 12 my self and what ima say is having this app is gonna get a kid to lose trust in there parent. I'm tired of not having privacy on my own phone, and its not even her phone its a phone I won in a gaming tournament, I'm sick of my phone being controlled by a app from google. its like in the futuristic movies that one app is controlling your devices, and that's how felling like, I don't know if you guys get what I mean but all am trying to say is don't get this app for your KID. what's the point of having a kid if your going to have a app to parent them.
The biggest problem I had was that I couldn't get in touch with then to get it sorted out and the help forum hadn't had an answer from Google in years. Terrible customer service.
My friend has this app and i can feel the pain, like all the apps are blocked even google drive, gmail and whatsapp, and she cant have contact with people on the phone's calling app because she cannot pay the fee, and also the google drive and gmail apps are for her projects and she cant use them while they are blocked, imagine there is an emergency situation and you need to communicate with someone but you cannot because of family link, that could cause deaths, right? Also people say family link saves lives but she showed the location feature and it was not even the right location, it didn't show the location of her house, just an random location of somewhere nearby, so the location can be innaccurate many times, that makes the argument of the app saving lives complicated.
My mom is an idiot SHE DIDNT EVEN SEE THE REVIEWS ON THIS STUPID APP AND MOCKS ME BECAUSE I WAS TELLING HER THAT THE APP DOESNT DO ANYTHING!!!!! GOOGLE NEEDS TO SHUT DOWN THIS APP My lil sister-
I want to use my tab but the moment i got my tab it was with a family link so the family link app manger phone got destroyed now i cannot use the tab or hard reset don't even know what was the email for family link manager
Sorry for the people who have family link just like me😔 Also why does it even need updates loki its bad with or without updates and updates are getting worse cuz when my dad unlocks my phone it glitches for a whjle and then starts
Made the family link for my brother, thought it would help, he can't log in in his tablet anymore, can't play brawl stars using his account even on another devices, I can't remove him from family link, can't change his age, this thing is garbage to the core
Whats more worse about this app is the fact that it ALMOST takes up all of your storage. Thankfully im free from that burden app now by some email sent to me about leaving family link or staying in supervision
... Could as well work, but, you know how Google is. Just to save a thousand money (when they are a company with billions) they will even let the worst app ever run.
I hate it i had this phone for 4 years having family link and im older now and i cant delete it i cant download with out my dads password like im older now i have too use samsung internet to watch youtube and do more like what if my dad lost his phone like i cant do anything
Completly absolutly horrid. Horrendous. I’ve never been so aggravated… I have 4 children and it was so unhelpful, basically days of hell dealing with all the BS… they couldn’t do anything….I spent hours trying to get them games, media, apps etc… a billion codes, passwords…. Unusable. Now both the kids laptops that they also do schoolwork on are locked out….. after I deleted family link… still asking for a parental control code on the main screen so I’m locked out of both laptops… don’t have the codes anymore… there is a help box… I click it and it’s a blank screen with no words…. Can’t even contact google on them cause can’t get off that screen… worst thing I could of ever done…. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
The main issue is that the software is shit, i.e. it has limited functionality and it's a real dog's breakfast trying to police what is or is not allowed across your Google ecosystem. For example the Chrome controls work well for internet browsing, but it's a complete shitstorm trying to manage any content on a Google Hub - the device simply ignores my kids, or isn't smart enough to do things like blocking youtube videos whilst still allowing youtube music. Underneath all this, as noted in the video, Google sets universal policies that will simply never meet the complicated needs of varied families. It's often difficult to figure out what these policies are. It either needs to be highly flexible, or you just delete the whole thing.
i was trying to remove my kids account and let me tell you how nightmare it is i was going back and forth between google and family and their absolutely useless guide
Is this video out of date? We’ve just set up family link and my daughter can access loads of games and apps, she just has to send a quick permission request to us. It serves its purpose in keeping kids safe online perfectly well so far as I can tell
Glad it's working for you. Unfortunately it's very hit and miss. I know people who've had no real issues, while others have run into all sorts of trouble. Sometimes both scenarios occur in the same family. That's why it's so annoying. You can't really know whether it's going to work or not and Google are less than helpful.
When I got a $10 gift card for Google play, I had to verificate some things and when I got login, it didn't work. That's why family link Can be garbage
to all kids who suffer under family link: you can get rid of it without parent password and it doesn’t notify them! Its called a hard reset, you can look it up. ONLY DO IT IF YOU ARE OK WITH LOSING ALL YOUR DATA!!
still no solution in 2023... I am above 13 on my account birthday and in real life and yet it doesnt let me delete the account from family link so i think im stuck with this... unless i want to delete my whole email which i dont... i have been using an alt email for probably 3 years now....
I have Family Link, I'm 12, but I'm responsible. I cannot purchase games by my own, and if I want to buy something, i need to register for something that kids under 14 (at least here in Italy) can't register to...
Family Link is having trouble with updating the age on my other account. I need it to check my notifications cause on my other account it won't show up, do you have any advice?
My dad started using this because if a STUPID TIKTOK VIDEO THAT GOT ON MY FYP (keep in mind I have NO CONTROL over my fyp) so now my phone is being supervised. 😃
Thats EXACTLY why you need supervision - because ill intented people are bombarding your account and youre being exposed to crazy stuff that you will think is normal
I think it's fine to have a strict parental app AS LONG AS YOU CAN CHANGE IT make it so 13 year olds can't disable it if the parents don't want that, make it so kids under 13 can use the Google play app, give the parents some control
Could you help me I deleted my account from family link by accidentally I thought it would just remove me from the family link thing but my whole account is gone now and I can't even recover it
You're right, Family Link is the worst app I've seen in years. Garbage and completely unusable. Removed. I'll rather give my child full access than this.
If anybody wants to take it off try to uninstall it. Then it will say app cannot be unistalled. Press that then it will take you to a place that Says stop permission. Press that so you can take it off. But in return you can't use your phone for 24 hours. After 24 hours u got ur phone back.
familylink keeps requiring me to double authenticate even though ticked the box saying she can log in. so sometimes she cant do her homework unless i drop everything an come log her in. its infuriating. i dont have any of this trouble with apple.
Trying to add my daughters account to my sons new family link infested Chromebook, jeez oh why is it not letting me ?? This app really is a pain in the arse.
My phone got malware shortly after google family link controlled like it a puppet. because of that my phone was changed 3 times. I must make sure that my 3rd phone will not be gone
when i had family link i couldn't download a harmless strategy game but then i tried to DOWNLOAD A HOROR GAME THAT COULD LITERARY GIVE A YOUNG KID NIGHTMARES AND IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!
@@newpotatoxd Not only can't make you download any apps, you also have to ask your parents if you want to make your account. At first before my dad set this garbage on my phone, I looked at the reviews and wondering why it was rated 1 star. And after got set up, now I know why teens rate it 1 star and I agree with these 1 star review.
thank god i dont have family link my parents think its just bulling a child my little sisters friend had/has 15 minutes of phone time my friend (13+ cuz im not telling her age)still has family link
Not only is it crap and useless but it's almost impossible to completely scrub it from devices. I thought I had deleted it from everything. But my kids Chromebook was still restricting her. Had to factory reset. But we're still having problems with our accounts in RUclips music.🤬
Absolute crap!!!! I screwed around with this app for a couple hours today trying to get it to work before I realized I wasn’t doing something wrong and the app just sucks. It’s horrible.
I think the same way too. Literally I was playing Roblox shinobi storm when my dad said im gonna lock ur phone cuz of ur eyes and stuff. After that I found his password so my phone got unlocked. He changed his password and then bocked Roblox. Also I feel like Google developers are brainless like they cant even responde to someone question. I wish I could become a hacker and hack this app. Also this dosent even have to do with links. Also the location is wrong. 1 person said that he/she was at school and his/her dad was asking him/her why was she/he at a train station
I did it for my family a while ago and I did consider making a video about it but it was so convoluted and difficult that I didn’t want to add to peoples’ confusion. Honestly, it was just trial and error with me over a period of about three days and eventually I was shot of it. In the end it was more luck than judgment. Google we’re about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
Finally, a parent that understands.
It sucks
Yes
Thank god
Too bad my parents will never understand
@@zapphazappha same since my parents are so rude still they were Liang a few hours ago
Nobody:
Parents: Wow our kids have a beautiful life..... let's destroy it with family link and make their life hell
I'm am adult and I hate this app. Its literally just Spyware
FR
@💖{°×.EMA.×°}💖 I'm an adult but I don't have this app. I know someone younger than 18 that has this and I think it's a terrible parenting tool. I also know exactly what this app does for you guys cuz I've tested it with my two phones. I'm very against this app for anyone.
I'm literally 15 and my grandparents use this fucking app, it gave me more stress after they downloaded app, when I try to vent or talk with my friends, my grandparents always block my phone in random times. And for example, if you have android, on the lock screen there is only one icon for 'contacts' when I try to call my parents this mf comes up: "time for a break, your parents have locked this device" like what if you're in an CAR accident? How are you able to call your parents? I know my opinion might sucks but ok..
@RottengirlX I dont have parents 👏
for the love of god can thanos just snap google family link out of existence
YES PLEASE
YASS SLAY
I'm 15 and now I'm suspecting my parents in trying to get this 🙄🙄
It only works up to age 13, if I remember correctly. There are other apps, though.
Holy shit my parents too im also 15 years old.
@@JoeChip you can still add bedtimes and time limits. Correct me if I'm wrong
@@JoeChip yes, but you can make up a birthday to make them think your 10 when your actually 15 or something like that, that'll keep family link on until your 18.
omggg same
i hate family link!
Me too. And have you tried getting on to Google about it? You'll have more chance getting a response from Zeus.
@@JoeChip lol
exactly
@@JoeChip They never responded
Lets take this app down by giving it 1 star review
As someone who has been controlled by family until the age of 13, I hated every single second. I was restricted so much. And remember - the stricter the parents, the sneaker the kids. I managed to watch RUclips, search questionable stuff, and even start a RUclips channel.
If I ever have kids, I will rather talk to them and talk about their screen time than trust an app that damaged me.
Trust me, 100%, your kids won't listen to your "talks" about screen time. It's not entirely their fault: the internet aggressively attempts to get eyeballs on screens and kids aren't equipped to navigate that alone. The internet is also a cesspool and most parents are just trying to protect you from the stuff you should not be viewing, and to help you set healthy life-long screen/technology habits.
If you interpret that as controlling and causing damage, that's a real shame. But please give your parents the benefit of considering that they are trying to do the right thing in a very new and wild age of technology.
Personally I'm a child of the 80s and my parents really only had to intervene about television - there were no computers at home and certainly no internet. There was limited ability for me to be exposed to things that were completely inappropriate for my age. Of course I wasn't completely naive, I saw nude magazines and such, but on a scale absolutely dwarfed by what is readily available on the internet now.
@jirskyrjenkins1959 I see where you're coming from, however I'll still hate family link forever. When I was just a little kid controlled by it, I didn't learn how to manage healthy screentime without it feeling like a chore, so the second I no longer was monitored by family link, my screen time immediately skyrocketed and I was spending hours upon hours a day just to "compensate "
This app made me switch to apple so I could get more privacy , which Is annoying because if this app wasn't produced i would still be with android
Same here
Same but instead of switching Apple products lm gonna factory reset my chromebook
Im 14 and my mom still put family link on my phone. i hate her
Right. My mom used to have it. She didn’t know it was that bad! I couldn’t do anything on the phone. Like no really. I couldn’t even search popcorn because of the key letters p r o and n
I just say to her a couple week back. that i need to search something that related to online school so she removed the cursed app.
(She was away from the house)
And she never bother to connect it back
You have legal age to use normal app
bro i'm 19 and my dad is going to install this shit on my phone
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW SHIT FAMILY LINK IS.
Yo my phone locked at night, and in the morning my mom tried unlocking it and it wouldnt work. My location told my mom that I was two towns over. Messed up app. Hate it, sorry but until they fix it, I will hate it.
I hate it too. It's utter garbage.
I once tried to log in to gmail, only to find that Family Link is on! I am just trying to do 2SV with Gmail in Roblox! Family Link should go bankrupt!
@@arktos7444 and when my mom wanted to buy me robux,it couldn't work because of family link!
@@arktos7444 sadly family link is made by google itself
Google/Family Link is gonna be the lne crying until we hack it
Nobody:
Parents: Lets destroy the Social lifes of our sons :D
*children
edit: srry im stupid lmao
@@brilvy It's The Same...
@@wonokairun69 ?? how?? not trying to be rude or anything, im just confused
@@brilvy Kids = Sons
@@wonokairun69 oh, okay. srry!
i understand the bit of wanting to protect your kid and wanting to make sure that they're being safe and making sure they don't spend too much time on the phone but damn
family link is just encouraging parents to be overly controlling and protective
i personally don't own a phone, which is good
and i'm glad my mom doesn't know about this and i'm glad i own a laptop where i have privacy and freedom gggg
i feel absolutely terrible for kids who have controlling parents like this,, and i really wish that i could help in some way
i hope you're having a nice day, and thank you for posting this video, joe chip
Thank you for this comment
My parents set up family link so I can have a Gmail account and they just signed in on my phone when they gave it to me. Now I can’t download text now and WhatsApp to talk to my friends
I feel bad, kids like RUclips and Play Games. They shouldn’t get RUclips kids and no Play games. I would choose Apple instead of Google. They just limit it like they think kids shouldn’t play games or watch RUclips and have locked apps. Then, WHAT IS THE POINT OF THE PHONE?! See, there is no point.
I have it
i have delt with family link before, its horrible
Someone: *gets phone for birthday or Christmas*
Parents: let's make it basically f**king useless *adds family link*
That happened to me
Happended to me with my fuckin pc😭
Im on phone (does not have family link :D)
GEEZ PLS REMOVE FAMILY LINK FROM THIS WORLD! B(
Agreed!
Family link is hell
family link is cancer
Unfortunately, it can't be removed because it made by Google.
@@mario493 Dear God...
I say we march up to google headquarters with signs saying "Shut down Family link"
Who's with me?
Family link is more than just useless. It sometimes breaks emergency services, background processes count as screen time, and google outright disables settings that are not "child-friendly" like developer options. I feel like google thinks that we are clueless about technology (I use Arch BTW). The restrictions recently got disabled because I reached the age of 16 (I dont know if it's an EU regulation or just germany and nearby countries), but this was still unnecessary. Most of my apps were also sideloaded, so i couldn't update them for a while.
if you have a computer, you can just use ADB to remove the app time limit should be gone afaik
you can also enter recovery mode on boot and just wipe everything and start anew. it varies between manufacturers, but usually it's a power key and a volume key held at the same time
Duude im 14 and I still have google family link.. i dont have my own privacy. How did I still have family link? My father won't let me download apps, I can download games from oppo app store but the games are not updated🙂
Your dad will regret.He had a kid,but he wasted it.
I'm very lucky in a way because I knew my parents were going to use this on my new phone and I set it up with a sub-account that I don't use anymore. and I'm actually plotting a way to hack myself out of family link because I just hate it.
Show me your ways wise one
the dislikes are parents that torture their poor children with this stupid ass app
I bought Kaspersky year ago after investigating Family Link and I see that nothing has changed. What a disappointment from Google.
we have to destroy the family link
How??
Get it to 1 star or spam report@@cyrilplant2906
I hate family link, the worst part is that when u turn 13 ur parents either force u to click Keep Supervision OR make ur age younger than 13 every single time it's so horrible, and btw have dealt with a family link it was terrible I always have to get my parents permission from apps even tho the apps r for my age, like if the apps r like 1% chatting or 1% multiplayer he will not accept it
Family Link should never have existed..
Good old times when it didn't exist... NetNanny was much better
My parents placed family link in my phone and I can’t even buy anything online for my school stuff. I nearly broke my phone but I was able to calm myself down.
I feel bad for other kids like its really sad and annoying because they don't have privacy
Finally, a video about this
Fun fact if family link locks your phone you cant awnser phone calls
Just before watching this, I saw an ad for Rope Spider Swinger or something, featuring Spiderman but yellow. Google can't be arsed to take blatant copyright infringement off their store, or ads for it off their platform. They also let games get away with breaking the law by not offering refunds if you refuse to agree to their illegal ToS.
Silence. Ignoring the problem. Always.
I'm honestly sick and tired of Google. They try to come off as socially responsible when, in fact, they are among the worst companies out there. There attitude towards customers, creators etc is absolutely indefensible. Just yesterday I tried to contact them over an ongoing issue where subscribers don't seem to be seeing my videos (I have fewer than 1% or views coming from subs), but all I got was a generic, automated response that literally had nothing to do with my question.
If someone could come up with a viable alternative to RUclips, I'd jump ship in a heartbeat.
@@JoeChip Yep. They're immoral and astounding cheap and lazy for one of the most powerful companies in the world. People see illegal and objectively false ads all the time. There's not even a token nod to customer support. I dearly hope the inevitable end of all corporations claims them soon when their sloth allows someone else to do it better (and provides an opportunity for more competition for others in their rise).
I agree. I would honestly like to see the end of Google. They are so bad I’m even considering a return to Apple for my next phone and that was something I never thought I’d say.
What I want to see is family link get shut down because whenever it's back to school my dad sets this up I'm ten but when family link is around I feel like a 3 Year old
In Greece it works until 15 and I am 14,5 and I have it it's soo annoying I can't disable it until I'm 15 and I'm turning 15 at October. I have a day limit 2 hours, bedtime from 9pm to 10am that is the most annoying part and when I go to the play store I can't download anything because it says that I need to ask a parent, so I only have 2 games on my phone and each of them 5 minutes app limit. An other annoying thing is as you said we don't have Google play, so I can't save my progress. Also we don't have freedom and privacy if we must ask our parent for everything, and if our parents can see our location. Also when I go to a friend and I take my phone there I feel really embarrassed when my phone locks because I'm a teenager and my friends don't have this trash so I feel uncomfortable when my phone locks. Family link sucks and I hope it will be banned.
bro this family link app keeps on draining my battery. It's like when i charge my phone to 100 in a half an hour it was 50
and at that time my phone was on sleep
I'd not noticed that. That's not at all good.
OMG LITTERALY SAME
look I'm 12 my self and what ima say is having this app is gonna get a kid to lose trust in there parent. I'm tired of not having privacy on my own phone, and its not even her phone its a phone I won in a gaming tournament, I'm sick of my phone being controlled by a app from google. its like in the futuristic movies that one app is controlling your devices, and that's how felling like, I don't know if you guys get what I mean but all am trying to say is don't get this app for your KID. what's the point of having a kid if your going to have a app to parent them.
I'm a kid with family link and I'm here because there's so many ways to get around it
Almost 10k subs you're close
Cheers. Yeah, I'm getting there. Won't quite make it in time for Xmas on current trends, though.
I’m 13 and it has my wrong birth year and it won’t let me change to 2007
Sounds about right. It's a terrible application.
Yeah i hate it when its happening
and i tough i was strict
well what a pathetic way they should instead of blocking the phone make them do duolingo
The biggest problem I had was that I couldn't get in touch with then to get it sorted out and the help forum hadn't had an answer from Google in years. Terrible customer service.
This feels like pain than hell
My friend has this app and i can feel the pain, like all the apps are blocked even google drive, gmail and whatsapp, and she cant have contact with people on the phone's calling app because she cannot pay the fee, and also the google drive and gmail apps are for her projects and she cant use them while they are blocked, imagine there is an emergency situation and you need to communicate with someone but you cannot because of family link, that could cause deaths, right? Also people say family link saves lives but she showed the location feature and it was not even the right location, it didn't show the location of her house, just an random location of somewhere nearby, so the location can be innaccurate many times, that makes the argument of the app saving lives complicated.
You are so cool, finally someone thinks the same way this app is rubbish😁
Gamers can be upset with this app😭
im VERY upset with this app
This family link all is so annoying make me sick and I have enough of family link am gonna factory reset my chromebook
*annoying
My mom is an idiot SHE DIDNT EVEN SEE THE REVIEWS ON THIS STUPID APP AND MOCKS ME BECAUSE I WAS TELLING HER THAT THE APP DOESNT DO ANYTHING!!!!!
GOOGLE NEEDS TO SHUT DOWN THIS APP
My lil sister-
I doubt your mum is an idiot. She just may not understand the limits of the app.
@@JoeChip yea i know its just im just frustrated bc this app still sticks with my phone
I want to use my tab but the moment i got my tab it was with a family link so the family link app manger phone got destroyed now i cannot use the tab or hard reset don't even know what was the email for family link manager
Sorry for the people who have family link just like me😔 Also why does it even need updates loki its bad with or without updates and updates are getting worse cuz when my dad unlocks my phone it glitches for a whjle and then starts
My son have been trapped for 4 or 5 years bc of this app, there’s no way to stop it
Made the family link for my brother, thought it would help, he can't log in in his tablet anymore, can't play brawl stars using his account even on another devices, I can't remove him from family link, can't change his age, this thing is garbage to the core
I think they updated it now where you can change the account. If it still doesn't work for you try and change the birthday to make it over 13 yrs old.
Im cursed with this i can use youtube,play games and everything
Whats more worse about this app is the fact that it ALMOST takes up all of your storage. Thankfully im free from that burden app now by some email sent to me about leaving family link or staying in supervision
My friend had this on her phone and freaking RUclips kids and Amazon is blocked wth!?!
Sounds familiar.
wait but how old is ur friend?
Quite Orwellian, isn’t it? Big brother is watching you
Hear me out maybe if we put terrible reviews they have to shut it down
never
... Could as well work, but, you know how Google is.
Just to save a thousand money (when they are a company with billions) they will even let the worst app ever run.
I hate it i had this phone for 4 years having family link and im older now and i cant delete it i cant download with out my dads password like im older now i have too use samsung internet to watch youtube and do more like what if my dad lost his phone like i cant do anything
Worse part was I couldn't unlink without actually deleting the account hence losing Gmail access
Truth. We fully agree... two years later.
Completly absolutly horrid. Horrendous. I’ve never been so aggravated… I have 4 children and it was so unhelpful, basically days of hell dealing with all the BS… they couldn’t do anything….I spent hours trying to get them games, media, apps etc… a billion codes, passwords…. Unusable. Now both the kids laptops that they also do schoolwork on are locked out….. after I deleted family link… still asking for a parental control code on the main screen so I’m locked out of both laptops… don’t have the codes anymore… there is a help box… I click it and it’s a blank screen with no words…. Can’t even contact google on them cause can’t get off that screen… worst thing I could of ever done…. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
The main issue is that the software is shit, i.e. it has limited functionality and it's a real dog's breakfast trying to police what is or is not allowed across your Google ecosystem. For example the Chrome controls work well for internet browsing, but it's a complete shitstorm trying to manage any content on a Google Hub - the device simply ignores my kids, or isn't smart enough to do things like blocking youtube videos whilst still allowing youtube music.
Underneath all this, as noted in the video, Google sets universal policies that will simply never meet the complicated needs of varied families. It's often difficult to figure out what these policies are. It either needs to be highly flexible, or you just delete the whole thing.
Couldn’t agree more.
Please remove Family link from the world and stores!!!
Yesssssss
So one question, are my parents going to get notifications if I purchase something? (Games, Books etc.)
Probably.
i was trying to remove my kids account and let me tell you how nightmare it is i was going back and forth between google and family and their absolutely useless guide
youre right i hope google sees this
also my phone is for school, and the youtube is needs for my youtube school account
They won’t care even if they do see it.
My mom uninstall it without tapping the "stop supervising this account" and i hope that shit gone
Is this video out of date? We’ve just set up family link and my daughter can access loads of games and apps, she just has to send a quick permission request to us. It serves its purpose in keeping kids safe online perfectly well so far as I can tell
Glad it's working for you. Unfortunately it's very hit and miss. I know people who've had no real issues, while others have run into all sorts of trouble. Sometimes both scenarios occur in the same family. That's why it's so annoying. You can't really know whether it's going to work or not and Google are less than helpful.
Thanks for the reply
When I got a $10 gift card for Google play, I had to verificate some things and when I got login, it didn't work. That's why family link Can be garbage
to all kids who suffer under family link: you can get rid of it without parent password and it doesn’t notify them! Its called a hard reset, you can look it up. ONLY DO IT IF YOU ARE OK WITH LOSING ALL YOUR DATA!!
still no solution in 2023... I am above 13 on my account birthday and in real life and yet it doesnt let me delete the account from family link so i think im stuck with this... unless i want to delete my whole email which i dont... i have been using an alt email for probably 3 years now....
I have Family Link, I'm 12, but I'm responsible. I cannot purchase games by my own, and if I want to buy something, i need to register for something that kids under 14 (at least here in Italy) can't register to...
My dad got this so I wouldn't be on my phone past 10 which I'm not and now I cant download or log in to any on of my games
Sounds about right. That’s one reason why I removed it from my son’s phone. It was causing no end of issues.
Family Link is having trouble with updating the age on my other account. I need it to check my notifications cause on my other account it won't show up, do you have any advice?
Please tell me what happen if this kind of app get 100% of 1 star??i hope it removed
I lost all my progress in pubg because of this stupid app
My dad started using this because if a STUPID TIKTOK VIDEO THAT GOT ON MY FYP (keep in mind I have NO CONTROL over my fyp) so now my phone is being supervised. 😃
Thats EXACTLY why you need supervision - because ill intented people are bombarding your account and youre being exposed to crazy stuff that you will think is normal
I think it's fine to have a strict parental app AS LONG AS YOU CAN CHANGE IT make it so 13 year olds can't disable it if the parents don't want that, make it so kids under 13 can use the Google play app, give the parents some control
shitty app should be removed from existence stop torturing your child
Im 19....and my parents use this on me...help
Just how
@@keanudrljo9244 they installed it on my phone
@@alexisdrodriguez785 that’s ridiculous your 19 I’m 12 years old and my parents don’t agreee with this they gave parents your an adult
@@sofiaaguiar_a yeah but my parents control literally everything in my life
@@alexisdrodriguez785 gurl- no I’m not judging cause it ain’t myself is for you to finish college get yo job and peace out-
Could you help me I deleted my account from family link by accidentally I thought it would just remove me from the family link thing but my whole account is gone now and I can't even recover it
You're right, Family Link is the worst app I've seen in years. Garbage and completely unusable. Removed. I'll rather give my child full access than this.
If anybody wants to take it off try to uninstall it. Then it will say app cannot be unistalled. Press that then it will take you to a place that Says stop permission. Press that so you can take it off. But in return you can't use your phone for 24 hours. After 24 hours u got ur phone back.
familylink keeps requiring me to double authenticate even though ticked the box saying she can log in. so sometimes she cant do her homework unless i drop everything an come log her in. its infuriating. i dont have any of this trouble with apple.
Family link more like family sparta
How about family cringe
Trying to add my daughters account to my sons new family link infested Chromebook, jeez oh why is it not letting me ?? This app really is a pain in the arse.
This actually happened to me it gets annoying all the time good thing I don’t have it anymore
My phone got malware shortly after google family link controlled like it a puppet. because of that my phone was changed 3 times. I must make sure that my 3rd phone will not be gone
Family link is trash finally some one that is a adult understand
Ong I hate it sm. My mom does NOT need to notify my parents every time I want to download an app or downloaded an app.
when i had family link i couldn't download a harmless strategy game but then i tried to DOWNLOAD A HOROR GAME THAT COULD LITERARY GIVE A YOUNG KID NIGHTMARES AND IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!
Yeah same
@@ariplayz5709 yeah
@@newpotatoxd
Not only can't make you download any apps, you also have to ask your parents if you want to make your account. At first before my dad set this garbage on my phone, I looked at the reviews and wondering why it was rated 1 star. And after got set up, now I know why teens rate it 1 star and I agree with these 1 star review.
@@mario493 agreed
Google are making family link and there are a bunch of poo poo heads
Deleting all my apps that i need that my parents allow
I deleted my sons Family link and it deleted sons google account.
Yep, sounds like Google. Try getting them to help you with the app too. Complete waste of time.
The Google Classroom app doesn't even work with this rubbish, I have to use the website as the app won't let me add my school account 🙄
Sounds about right. The app is worse than useless.
I hate family and my mom sets it in 5 hours in night it will lock my phone! I just wanted to crash my phone when its already locked up.. THIS SUCKS
Aww, I hope you’ll get freedom:(
This feels like pain than hell
Family link should go straight to hell my parents are over bearing on monitoring me it's stupid I'm fucking 13 what the hell
thank god i dont have family link my parents think its just bulling a child
my little sisters friend had/has 15 minutes of phone time
my friend (13+ cuz im not telling her age)still has family link
Hi
Not only is it crap and useless but it's almost impossible to completely scrub it from devices. I thought I had deleted it from everything. But my kids Chromebook was still restricting her. Had to factory reset. But we're still having problems with our accounts in RUclips music.🤬
Sounds about right. It behaves a bit like malware.
I just lost 2 hours of my life trying to figure this out....avoid like herpies!!
family link is HELL
Commenting from three years in the future to say google family link is still garbage
Finally, legal spyware
:Me cant Play for 1 day: 🤢🤢🤢🤢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
:My bro only can Play for 4 hours: 😁
Absolute crap!!!! I screwed around with this app for a couple hours today trying to get it to work before I realized I wasn’t doing something wrong and the app just sucks. It’s horrible.
I agree.
I think the same way too. Literally I was playing Roblox shinobi storm when my dad said im gonna lock ur phone cuz of ur eyes and stuff. After that I found his password so my phone got unlocked. He changed his password and then bocked Roblox. Also I feel like Google developers are brainless like they cant even responde to someone question. I wish I could become a hacker and hack this app. Also this dosent even have to do with links. Also the location is wrong. 1 person said that he/she was at school and his/her dad was asking him/her why was she/he at a train station
For sure is garbage
So… Please,… If anybody knows how I can delete all my family links and link accounts etc. please please please let me know.
I did it for my family a while ago and I did consider making a video about it but it was so convoluted and difficult that I didn’t want to add to peoples’ confusion. Honestly, it was just trial and error with me over a period of about three days and eventually I was shot of it. In the end it was more luck than judgment. Google we’re about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
This is a great video, and explains everything in great detail!
And downtime and limit ughh