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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

Apply screen time limits to devices, apps, and games. When screen time runs out, choose whether to add more time based on what’s right for you and your family.

App and game screen time limits (Windows, Xbox, Android)
Device screen time limits (Windows, Xbox)
Screen time requests
Activity summaries

Explore safely with content filters

Create a safe space for your kids to explore online. Use the app's content filters to set healthy boundaries, block inappropriate apps and games, and limit browsing to kid-friendly websites using Microsoft Edge on Xbox, Windows, and Android.

Apps and game content filters
Web and search content filters
Content filter requests

Use location sharing with family members

Stay connected even when you’re apart with family location sharing and tracking. Share your location with loved ones, spot them on a map, and save places they visit the most.

Location sharing for families
Saved places
Location alerts¹

Build better driving habits

Get insights on how your family is doing on the road, including how many times the driver uses their phone, their top speed, and even the number of times they brake hard.

Drive safety reports²
Drive history²

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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

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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

Premium apps and services included

Word, create impressive documents and improve your writing with built-in intelligent features.
Excel, simplify complex data and create easy-to-read spreadsheets.
PowerPoint, easily create polished presentations that stand out.
Defender, Safeguard your personal data and devices with Microsoft Defender.
OneDrive, save, access, edit, and share files and photos wherever you are.
Microsoft Teams, bring everyone together in one place to meet, chat, call, and collaborate.
Clipchamp, Easily make creative videos for any occasion.
Family Safety, protect the ones you love with digital and physical safety features.

Your privacy is important to us

We work to help protect your data and information, and we don’t sell or share your location or driving data with insurance companies.

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Phone monitoring

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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.

[1] A Microsoft 365 Family subscription is required. Location permissions must be active.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.

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