Sign your child in on their Pixel Slate

If you'd like to supervise what your child does on the internet while using their Pixel Slate, use Family Link to create a Google Account for your child. With the Family Link app, you can choose what websites your child can access using Chrome, supervise your child's app usage, and more.

System requirements

Family Link can be used with devices running Chrome OS versions 71 or higher. To learn how to update your device's operating system, see Related articles.

How your device works with your child's Google Account

Children signed in to their Google Account on a Chrome OS device have a similar experience to adults. Available features may be updated from time to time, but some of the differences include:

  • Children won't have access to apps and extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
  • Children won't have access to Google Assistant.
  • Children can't use incognito mode.
  • Parents can manage the websites their children can visit on Chrome, and limit their children's ability to grant permissions to websites.
  • If "try to block mature sites" has been turned on for your child in your Family Link settings, the Chrome browser will block most sexually explicit and violent sites.
  • Chrome Sync is required for certain parental management features to work with your child's Google Account. However, your child can turn off certain kinds of data collection.
  • Your child's Google Activity controls may allow Google to use Chrome browsing history and activity from websites to personalize your child's experience across Google products and services. However, this info won't be used to personalize ads for children under 13 (or the applicable age in your country).

For more information on private browsing and syncing account settings, see Related articles.

Add your child's Google Account

To a new or factory reset device
  1. Set up the device and sign in using your Google account.
  2. Add your child's Google Account to the device.

Note: After your child is signed in to their device, a parent's password is required to add new users.

For more information on private browsing and syncing account settings, see Related articles.

A device that's already set up
  1. Add your child's Google Account to the device.
  2. Recommended: If you (the parent) are the owner device's owner account, then disable guest mode and control who can sign in to your child's device. If guest mode and adding new users are allowed, your child can use the device without Family Link settings applying.

For more information on private browsing and syncing account settings, see Related articles.

Manage your child's activity

Choose what apps your child can use

You can choose what apps your child can use on their device and what permissions your child provides to those apps.

Manage your child's browsing on Chrome
  1. Open the Family Link app Family Link
  2. Select your child.
  3. On the "Settings" card, select Manage settings and then Filters on Google Chrome.
  4. Choose the setting that's right for your family:
    • Allow all sites: Your child will be able to visit all sites, except the ones you block.
    • Try to block mature sites: No filter is perfect, but this should help hide sexually explicit and violent sites.
    • Only allow certain sites: Your child will only be able to visit the sites you allow.
  5. Select Manage sites to manually allow or block certain sites.

Note: You can also manage this setting by clicking on your child's name at families.google.com.

Block or allow certain sites

If you block a certain site, your child can ask for parental permission to visit it. You'll get a notification in the Family Link app where you can approve or deny their request.

  • Websites: If you block or allow a specific website, like www.google.com, the permission won't apply to sites that begin or end differently, like www.google.co.uk or get.google.com/tips.
  • Domains: If you block or allow an entire domain, like google, the permission applies to sites that begin or end differently too, like google.com, and images.google.fr.

Block or allow a site

  1. Open the Family Link app Family Link
  2. Select your child.
  3. On the "Settings" card, select Manage settings and then Filters on Google Chrome and then Manage sites and then Approved or Blocked.
  4. In the bottom right corner, select Create Create
  5. Add a website or domain.
  6. In the top left, select Close Close

Note: You can also manage this setting by clicking on your child's name at families.google.com.

Change website permission settings

You can decide whether your child can give site permissions to websites they visit, including permission to use location, camera, and notifications.

  1. Open the Family Link app Family Link
  2. Select your child.
  3. On the "Settings" card, select Manage settings and then Filters on Google Chrome and then Chrome dashboard.
  4. Turn "Permissions for sites and apps" on or off.

Note: You can also manage this setting by clicking on your child's name on the Chrome dashboard.

When "Permissions for sites and apps" is off, children won't be able to grant permissions to websites. However, permissions they have already granted will still be in place.

See or delete your child's Chrome history

See Chrome history
  1. On your child's device, open Chrome Chrome
  2. In the top right, select More More and then History. This page shows your child's recent Chrome history.
Clear Chrome history & data

Browsing history

  1. Open the Family Link app Family Link
  2. Select your child.
  3. On the "Settings" card, select Manage settings and then Filters on Google Chrome and then Chrome dashboard.
  4. In the "History" section, select Clear history.

Note: Your child's Google Account might have other kinds of browsing history saved at myactivity.google.com.

Browsing data

You can clear your child's browsing data, like cookies, saved passwords, and autofill form data.

If you sync a type of data, deleting it on your computer will delete it everywhere it's synced. It'll be removed from other devices and your Google Account.

  1. On your child's device, open Chrome Chrome
  2. At the top right, select More More
  3. Select More tools and then Clear browsing data.
  4. Choose a time range, like last hour or all time.
  5. Select the types of info you want to remove.
  6. Select Clear data.

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