Manage Search on your child's Google Account

When students sign in to their school Google Workspace for Education account and use Google Search, SafeSearch helps to filter explicit content that appears in their search results. This feature works if the school administrator keeps it turned on.

School administrators can update SafeSearch filtering at any time and turn it on or off in the Admin Console. When SafeSearch enforcement is turned off, students can manage their own SafeSearch preferences.

You can manage search activities and device settings for your child's account with Family Link. To help manage explicit content in search results, SafeSearch filtering is turned on and locked by default for your child's account. SafeSearch filtering can only be managed by parents.

For devices like Android and Chromebooks, Incognito mode is disabled to help manage content preferences. Ads Personalization is also disabled.

To go to this setting directly in the app, tap the button below:

Set up Google Search controls

Important: The SafeSearch preferences you set in Family Link can't be enforced if: 

• Your child isn't signed into their Google Account. Sign them into their account before use.
• You have installed alternative search apps, such as Google Go. Learn how Family Link can help you approve and limit specific apps here.

1. Open the Family Link app or go to g.co/YourFamily.
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls Google Search.
4. Keep SafeSearch in "Filter" or change it to "Blur" or "Off" if you want to update access rights for your child.

To go to this setting directly in the app, tap the button below:

Set up personal results

Important: Your child can turn “Personal results" on or off from their device. If your child changes this setting, you won’t get a notification. You can always check your child’s account settings in the Family Link app.

1. Open the Family Link app or go to g.co/YourFamily.
2. Select your child's name.
3. Tap Controls Google Search Search personalization.
4. Turn Show personal results on or off.

1. Open the Family Link app .
2. At the top left, select your child.
3. At the bottom left, tap Screen time Time limits App limits.
4. Tap Google App App details Search.
5. Turn off Allowed.

1. Open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls Account settings Privacy settings.
4. Tap Account data settings Web & App Activity.
5. Follow on-screen instructions.

Important: If you added supervision to your child’s previously existing Google Account, you’ll need their help to do this.

1. On your child's device, visit the My Activity page. Your child may need to sign in with their Google Account.
2. Follow the steps to delete activity manually or set up automatic deletion.

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls Account settings Privacy settings.
4. Tap Account data settings.
5. In the ”Other account settings” section, manage contact and app info from devices.

First, use the instructions above to make sure SafeSearch is on.

Then, report the content to Google. If your child uses an Android device, follow the instructions for sites or images below. Otherwise, learn how to report inappropriate content on other devices.

Sites

If your child visited a site with inappropriate content, report the content to Google.

Images

1. To find more options, tap the image.
2. Below the image, tap More Send feedback.

Your child may find ads when they use Google Search. Learn more on how ads work with your child's Google Account.