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1. #Microsoft pc monitoring software for parents install#
2. #Microsoft pc monitoring software for parents drivers#
3. #Microsoft pc monitoring software for parents driver#
4. #Microsoft pc monitoring software for parents android#
5. #Microsoft pc monitoring software for parents free#

This is a useful way to keep an eye on the new drivers in your family, but it could help anyone check their driving, parents too. It even tries to detect phone use by checking 'if the phone moves around like someone’s touching it and for how long.' But the logs try to capture lots of detail, including the journey route, top speed, moments of fast acceleration or hard braking. We didn't test this either, not least because it deserves an entire review all by itself. Turn this on and Family Safety not only tracks your location, it also analyses your driving, logs journeys, and keeps a two-week history.

#Microsoft pc monitoring software for parents driver#

You'll need to sign up for Family Safety Premium to test out Microsoft's Driver Safety feature (Image credit: Microsoft) Driver Safetyĭriver Safety, probably the most interesting Family Safety Premium feature, takes this to a whole new level. If this is a school location, for instance, you can choose the one or more children who go there opt for alerts when they arrive there, leave, or both and decide to get these alerts every time, or just once (a better choice for one-off events, like going to a party.) It's a handy set of options, and more than we've seen with other parental control apps. We'd like a little more flexibility - ESET Parental Control can set a location by tapping the map, and set a zone to a specific size between 100-500m - but it's certainly easy to use.įamily Safety gives far more control over location alerts. Enter an address, give it a name, choose the size of a zone (Small/ Medium/ Large), and it's set up.

#Microsoft pc monitoring software for parents free#

We're reviewing the free app, not Office 365 Family, and so didn't test this, but the basics look good. Pay for Microsoft Office 365 Family and simple geofencing support enables creating common locations (home, school, work) and getting alerts when family members arrive or leave. Get alerts when your child arrives at or leaves a location (Image credit: Microsoft) If it's parents watching kids, that could seem like spying if it's every family member sharing their location with each other, that feels more like a feature which benefits everyone. That's unusual in the parental control world, but it's certainly fair, and that might create a better impression with your child. And assuming you've also enabled location sharing, they can see you, too.

Technical details sorted, Family Safety displays your child's location both within the app and in the web dashboard.

#Microsoft pc monitoring software for parents android#

You must explicitly turn on location sharing in the app settings, and enable the Android and iOS location permissions for Family Safety before it starts to work.

Microsoft Family Safety's location sharing features require a little setup, though nothing unexpected. Kaspersky Safe Kids blocks sites by your choice of category (Adult, Drugs, Violence and others), for instance, and supports Safe Search at Bing, Google, Yahoo!, Yandex and YouTube. That's better than nothing - just about - but even the free competition typically does a lot more. Bonus tools allow you to build website blacklists and whitelists, and Family Safety tries to block a stack of popular browsers to prevent your kids finding a way around the system (Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Brave, Tor - 25 in total, as we write.) The core feature is an option to automatically block inappropriate content in Edge, and enforce Safe Search (built-in filtering to block dubious sites) at Bing. Web filtering only works in Edge but Family Safety can block other browsers (Image credit: Microsoft) If they set this to make themselves appear older, that restricts what you're able to do.) (If this is a young child and the monitor settings are still greyed out, check the child's birth date in their Microsoft profile. This isn't an app which automatically allows parents to do whatever they like, and the profiles for older children may not allow you to limit their app usage, for instance.

#Microsoft pc monitoring software for parents install#

Next, Microsoft prompts your family member to create a Microsoft account and install Family Safety on their device. Enter an email address for each family member, give them a role (Organizers can manage settings, Members mostly do as they're told), tap the Invite button and Family Safety sends an invitation. This didn't involve much low-level Android work - it only asked for a single permission (Location), for instance - and the app was up and running in barely a minute.Īpp setup starts by building a family group. We grabbed Microsoft Family Safety for our Android device, and began a simple installation process. You'll need to join a family group to get started with Microsoft Family Safety (Image credit: Microsoft) Getting started