Everything you need to know about My Family for Windows Phone
The combination of the internet and mobile technology has changed our lives drastically, and mostly for good. However, there are many dark alleys in the world of internet, just like in the real world, the ones you would always want to keep your family, especially your children, protected from.
In today's world, and owing to our modern lifestyle, it is usual for young children to have their own smartphones, and it is not easy to keep a tab on what your kids are downloading, watching, getting exposed to when venturing out in the online world.
However, with the advent of the Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone 8.1 handsets, this dilemma of a parent has been solved like never before. And, they have done this with something called, My Family. …show more content…
You can monitor the apps and games being downloaded by your kids on their mobile devices and much more.
All that you have to do is activate the My Family service at the time of setting up your kid's phone, by entering their age as a part of activating the handset for them. Once done, for minors, a parent will have the authority to approve or decline the download of apps and games etc.
You can even set the app types that your child would be allowed to download, for example, free, paid, both or no apps. You can also fix the rating level for the games that your child will be able to download. How to set up My Family for Windows Phone
Setting up My Family at present cannot be done from your phone, for this, you will have to visit the Windows Phone desktop site. All that you have to do is visit the site - Windowsphone.com and log in to your account. Once logged in, tap on your account (top right hand side) and you will get a drop down with the My Family
The combination of the internet and mobile technology has changed our lives drastically, and mostly for good. However, there are many dark alleys in the world of internet, just like in the real world, the ones you would always want to keep your family, especially your children, protected from.
In today's world, and owing to our modern lifestyle, it is usual for young children to have their own smartphones, and it is not easy to keep a tab on what your kids are downloading, watching, getting exposed to when venturing out in the online world.
However, with the advent of the Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone 8.1 handsets, this dilemma of a parent has been solved like never before. And, they have done this with something called, My Family. …show more content…
You can monitor the apps and games being downloaded by your kids on their mobile devices and much more.
All that you have to do is activate the My Family service at the time of setting up your kid's phone, by entering their age as a part of activating the handset for them. Once done, for minors, a parent will have the authority to approve or decline the download of apps and games etc.
You can even set the app types that your child would be allowed to download, for example, free, paid, both or no apps. You can also fix the rating level for the games that your child will be able to download. How to set up My Family for Windows Phone
Setting up My Family at present cannot be done from your phone, for this, you will have to visit the Windows Phone desktop site. All that you have to do is visit the site - Windowsphone.com and log in to your account. Once logged in, tap on your account (top right hand side) and you will get a drop down with the My Family