Manage your child's account on Chromebook

When you use Family Link to manage your child's Google account, yous can let them sign in to some Google services on their Chromebook. You can also use the Family Link app to choose what websites your child tin can access using Chrome, supervise your child'southward app usage, and more.

System requirements

Family Link can exist used with Chromebooks with Chrome OS versions 71 or college. Learn more about how to update your Chromebook's operating system.

How Chromebooks work with your child's Google Account

Children signed in to their Google Account on a Chromebook have a similar experience to adults. Features may be updated from time to time, but some differences include:

  • Children can't browse in private.
  • You tin manage which websites children tin visit and limit their ability to grant permissions to websites.
  • You can set Chrome to cake most sexually explicit and violent sites.
  • You demand Chrome Sync to utilize some parental management features. Note that your child tin plough off sure kinds of data collection when sync is on.
  • Your kid's Google Activity controls may permit Google to utilize Chrome browsing history and activity from websites to personalize your kid's experience beyond Google products and services. Nonetheless, this info won't exist used to personalize ads for children under 13 (or the applicative historic period in your land).

Important: For school accounts and schoolhouse-issued Chromebooks, Google Workspace for Education administrators determine which Google services their users can admission while signed into a Google Workspace for Education account. This may include some features or services that your child was previously unable to admission using the Family unit Link supervised account. Learn how to add a schoolhouse account equally a secondary business relationship.

Add your child's Google Business relationship

A Chromebook that'due south already ready

  1. Add together your child's Google Account to the Chromebook.
    • Of import: If you've added supervision to your kid's existing Google Account, they'll need to restart the Chromebook to finish adding supervision and regain admission to some Google services.
  2. Recommended: If yous (the parent) are the Chromebook'south owner account, disable guest mode and control who can sign in to your kid'due south Chromebook. If you permit invitee fashion or the addition of new users your child may be able to use their Chromebook without Family Link settings applying.

Remove your child'southward Google Account

  1. On the Chromebook sign-in screen, select the contour you desire to remove.
  2. Side by side to the profile name, select the Down arrow .
  3. Select Remove this user.
  4. In the box that appears, select Remove this user.

Important: If you delete your child'south account before y'all remove the profile from the Chromebook, you may accept to reset your Chromebook to mill settings. To reset, press and concur Ctrl + Alt + Shift + r.

Manage your child's feel on a Chromebook

Cake or allow sure sites

If you block a certain site, your child can enquire for parental permission to visit it. You'll get a notification in the Family Link app where you tin corroborate or deny their request.

  • Websites: If you block or let a specific website, like www.google.com , the permission won't utilise to sites that brainstorm or stop differently, like www.google.co.uk or get.google.com/tips .
  • Domains: If yous block or allow an unabridged domain, like google , the permission applies to sites that begin or end differently as well, like google.com , and images.google.fr .

Block or allow a site

Tip: You tin can also manage this setting by clicking on your kid's name at thousand.co/YourFamily.

Alter website permission settings

Y'all tin can decide whether your child can give site permissions to websites they visit, including permission to use location, camera, and notifications.

Tip: You can also manage this setting by clicking on your child'south name on the Chrome dashboard.

When "Permissions for sites and apps" is off, children won't be able to grant permissions to websites. However, permissions they have already granted will still be in place.

Forestall changes to family settings

Yous can use a parent access code to prevent your child from removing supervision without your consent.

Meet or delete your child'south Chrome history

Clear Chrome history & information

Browsing history

Tip: Your child's Google Account might have other kinds of browsing history saved at myactivity.google.com.

Browsing information

Yous can clear your child's browsing data, similar cookies, saved passwords, and autofill form information.

If you sync a type of data, deleting it on your calculator volition delete it everywhere it'southward synced. It'll be removed from other devices and your Google Account.

Of import: If you added supervision to your kid'due south previously existing Google Account, you'll need their help to practise this.

  1. On your child's Chromebook, open up Chrome Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More More.
  3. Click More tools and then Articulate browsing data.
  4. Choose a fourth dimension range, like last hr or all time.
  5. Select the types of info you want to remove.
  6. Click Clear data.

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