Like its competitors, Microsoft Family Safety will work best for those who have already bought into the company’s own ecosystem of products and services.
The app competes with other parental control technologies, including those built into iOS and Android - the latter of which is also available as a standalone app, called Family Link. The app is designed to help parents better understand children’s use of screen time, set limits and create screen time schedules, configure boundaries around web access and track family members’ location, among other things. Microsoft’s new screen time and parental controls app, Microsoft Family Safety, is today launching publicly on iOS and Android, following a preview of the experience which had arrived earlier this spring.
