Microsoft Family Safety
Empower your family to create healthy habits and help protect the ones you love with physical and digital family safety features.
Develop healthy digital habits
Explore safely with content filters
Use location sharing with family members

Build better driving habits
Get premium Microsoft Family Safety features with Microsoft 365 Family
Microsoft Family Safety
- Screen time limits
- App and game limits (Windows, Xbox, Android)
- Device limits (Windows and Xbox)
- Screen time requests
- Activity summaries
- App and game filters
- Web and search filters
- Content requests
- Location sharing
- Saved places
- Web versions of apps
Microsoft 365 Family
/ month
(Annual subscription – auto renews)3
Everything in Microsoft Family Safety plus:
- For up to six people
- Advanced features in the Microsoft Family Safety mobile app, including location alerts, drive safety reports, and drive history
- Up to 6 TB of cloud storage (1 TB/person)
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint with premium features
- Microsoft Defender security for data and devices
- OneDrive ransomware protection for files/photos
- Outlook ad-free email
- Microsoft Editor advanced spelling and grammar
- Microsoft Teams all-day video calling
- Desktop and web versions of apps
Your privacy is important to us

Ideas and resources for your family
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Location sharing
Find out how your family can benefit from location sharing.
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Parental control
Choose a parental control app that works for you.
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Phone monitoring
Help protect your family with phone monitoring apps.
Premium features with Microsoft 365
Frequently asked questions
Screen time limits work on Windows (Windows 10 and Windows 11), Xbox (Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S), and Android apps and games. They can be managed using the Microsoft Family Safety app on Android and iOS.
Turn web and search filters on to filter out sites and search results that are too mature when using Microsoft Edge on Windows (Windows 10 and Windows 11), Xbox (Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S), and Android devices. Other commonly used browsers will be blocked for this to work.
Yes, you or anyone in your family can pause or turn off location sharing. To keep everyone safe and up to date on each other’s location, we recommend turning your location setting to “Always allow.”
Drive safety is only available in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, Belgium.
A Microsoft 365 Family subscription is required for location alerts and drive safety features.
- A Microsoft 365 Family subscription is required. Location permissions must be active.
- A Microsoft 365 Family subscription is required. Location permissions must be active; drive safety features only available in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, Poland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil and Belgium.
- To cancel your Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription online go to the Microsoft Account site. Sign in with the Microsoft account you used to buy your subscription, then turn off recurring billing. Your subscription will automatically expire when your remaining subscription time ends. Go to “How to cancel your Microsoft subscription” on the Microsoft Support site for details.