Help protect your family with Family settings

To help make it easier to keep your family unit condom on their phones and build healthy phone habits, you tin can:

  • Block contact from strangers
  • Manage data employ
  • Access Family Link in Family settings

Block contact from strangers

Turn on "Block contact from strangers" so that:

  • Only numbers in your contacts can call or text you.
  • You tin can all the same brand outbound calls or texts to anyone you desire, and they can call or text yous back.

When you lot turn this setting on, calls from numbers not in your contact list get directly to voicemail and texts aren't received. This uses the aforementioned contact list that'south on your phone and syncs to Google Contacts to ensure information technology'southward up to engagement.

To make sure that you lot don't miss call-backs from people y'all intend to attain, numbers that y'all call or text can call or text y'all back for a month. If y'all intend to contact them long term, nosotros recommend that you add them to your contact listing.

To brand sure y'all don't miss important texts from 2-factor authentication and institutions like banks, text letters from brusk-codes volition automatically be allowed.

Important: If you lot make a 911 call, "Block contact from strangers" is turned off for 48 hours to allow callbacks from unknown starting time responders.

To use "Block contact from strangers," plough on contact syncing. Learn how to dorsum up and sync device contacts.

Turn Block contact from strangers on/off on your account

  1. On your Android device, open the Fi app .
  2. Under "Phone Settings," tapFamilies.
  3. Plough "Cake contact from strangers" on or off. If you don't take contact syncing on, we ask you to plough it on. Learn how to support and sync device contacts.

Turn Cake contact from strangers on/off on a supervised business relationship

For member accounts that you add to your group plan with Family Link, y'all can turn "Block contact from strangers" on or off. Members must employ a compatible Android phone. Learn how to add together a child to your Google Fi group plan.

  1. On your Android device, open the Fi app.
  2. On the left, nether "Business relationship," tap the fellow member's name.
  3. Under "Families," tap Edit Family unit settings.
  4. Plough Block contact from strangers on or off. If contact syncing for that account is off, you're asked to send a notification to the member's phone to cease setup.

Asking that a programme member turns Block contact from strangers on/off

Tip: Program owners can enquire program members with compatible Android phones to plough "Block contact from strangers" on or off. "Block contact from strangers" is only available for Android.

  1. On your Android device, open up the Fi app .
  2. On the left, under "Account," tap the fellow member's name.
  3. Under "Families," tap Edit Family settings.
  4. Under "Cake contact from strangers," tap Ask {member} to turn it on. The member gets a notification on their phone to turn on the feature.

Notice information about blocked contacts

You can find data nigh the number of attempted contacts blocked in the last 60 days. Plan owners tin detect the number of blocked contacts for programme members.

  1. On your Android device, open the Fi app .
  2. Tap Accounts.
  3. If yous accept a group plan, tap the member y'all want to find data about.
  4. Nether "Families," tap Edit Family settings. You discover the number of phone contacts and blocked numbers for the last 60 days.

Monitor & upkeep information usage

Y'all tin get an alert when you lot employ a specific amount of data. If you lot're a group program owner, you tin can also get alerts for each member in your group.

You lot can also decide how much data can exist used before data is slowed down. When you accomplish a boring data limit, information speeds reduce to 256 kbps.

Important: You're still charged for data used at this slower speed. We notify programme owners and program members when they're shut to slower data. Learn more about data speed limits.

Monitor & budget data usage equally a plan possessor for a plan member

  1. Open up the Google Fi website or app .
  2. Select the fellow member's proper noun.
  3. Under "Families," select Edit Family settings.
  4. Under "Monitor and budget data usage," choose the alarm and the slow data limit:
    • Alarm me at: Touch and concord, and so drag to your chosen information employ alert level.
    • Slow data at: Touch and agree, then drag to your chosen deadening data limit.

Change alert & deadening information limit

Alerts:

  • When the programme member reaches or is near the information usage level, the program member will receive an alert.
  • Plan members tin can prepare their own alerts.

Irksome data limit:

  • In the plan fellow member's Fi app, the limit yous set is reflected.
  • The plan member gets a notification that the limit is set.
  • Members tin can't change the irksome data limit.
  • The program member and the owner get an alert:
    • Well-nigh the slow information limit
    • After the slow data limit is reached

Monitor & budget your ain information usage as a plan member

Tip: You can gear up your own data usage alert. If the plan possessor didn't set your tedious data limit, you tin fix 1. If the owner already gear up a slow data limit, you can't change it.

  1. Open up the Google Fi website or app .
  2. Select Edit data settings.
  3. Fix your alert. If no tiresome information limit is set, set your limit.
    • Alert me at: Affect and concur, and so drag to your chosen alert information usage level.
    • Irksome data at: Bear on and agree, then elevate to your chosen irksome data limit.

Monitor & budget your own information usage as a program owner

  1. Open the Google Fi website or app .
  2. Select Edit data settings.
  3. Set your alerts and slow data limits.
    • Alert me at: Impact and hold, then elevate to your chosen alert information usage level.
    • Deadening data at: Touch and hold, then drag to your chosen slow data limit.

To get an email notification and an alert, select Also notify past email. Emails are sent to the person whose account they're set for. The emails get to the associated email address, which can't exist changed.

Important: There may be a delay of upward to an hour to measure out data usage and activate limits. International information may take upwards to 48 hours to measure out.

Set digital ground rules with Family Link

With Family Link, you can set parental controls, like how to manage your kid's apps or screen fourth dimension. Learn more than nigh Family Link.

To turn on Family unit Link:

  1. On your kid's phone, open the Fi app .
  2. On the Account screen, under "Telephone settings," tap Families.
  3. Nether "Ready digital footing rules with Family Link," tap Set up Family unit Link.
  4. To set up Family Link for parent and child, follow the onscreen instructions.

Tip: To prepare Family Link from your own telephone, use the above steps. Yous need your child'southward Google Account password.

For more than information about Family Link, go to the Family Link Help Center.

Related manufactures

  • Most data speed limits
  • Turn alerts on or off
  • Getting started with Family Link

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