Norton Family Parental Control

3.2
24.8K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Norton Family provides tools that teach safe, smart, and healthy online habits. It also provides insights that help you foster a healthy online/offline balance for your children and their devices.

At home, attending school, or on the go, Norton Family helps keep children focused on what’s most important.

• Monitor the sites and content your child views
Make the Web safer for your kids to explore—by keeping you informed of which sites your kids are visiting, and letting you block potentially harmful and inappropriate content.‡

• Set limits on your child’s internet access
Help your kids balance time spent online by scheduling screen time limits for their device usage.‡ This can helps you focus your child on schoolwork and avoid online distractions while remote learning or at bedtime.‡

• Stay informed about your child’s physical location
Use geo-location features in the app to track your child’s location. Receive alerts if you’re your child arrives in or goes beyond areas of interest established by you. (4)

Here are some of the Norton Family features parents can use to help protect their child’s online activities.

• Instant Lock
Help your kids take a break by locking the device, so they can re-focus, or join the family at dinner. You can still contact your children and children can still contact each other while the device is in lock mode.

• Web Supervision
Let your kids explore the Web freely, with tools that help you block unsuitable websites while keeping you in the know about which sites they’re visiting. (6)

• Video Supervision
See a list of the YouTube videos your kids watch on their PCs or mobile devices and even view a snippet of each video, so you know when you need to talk. (3)

• Mobile App Supervision
See which apps your kids have downloaded on their Android devices. Choose which ones they can use. (5)

Time Features:

• School Time
Remote learning requires the internet, so pausing the internet on your child’s device is not an option. Manage content access to relevant categories and websites to help your child maintain focus while school is in session.

Location Features:

• Alert Me
Stay informed about your child’s location automatically. You can set specific dates and times to receive automatic alerts of the location of a child’s device. (2)

‡ Norton Family and Norton Parental Control can only be installed and used on a child’s Windows PC, iOS and Android devices but not all features are available on all platforms. Parents can monitor and manage their child’s activities from any device – Windows PC (excluding Windows 10 in S mode), iOS and Android – via our mobile apps, or by signing into their account at my.Norton.com and selecting Parental Control via any browser.

‡‡ Requires your device to have an Internet/data plan and be turned on.

1. Parents can sign in to my.Norton.com or family.Norton.com and select Parental Control to view their child’s activity and manage settings from any supported browser on any device.

2. Location Supervision features are NOT available in all countries. Visit Norton.com for details. To work, the child’s device must have Norton Family installed and be turned on.

3. Video Supervision monitors videos that your kids view on YouTube.com. It does not monitor or track YouTube videos that have been embedded in other websites or blogs.

4. Location Supervision requires activation before use.

5. Mobile app must be downloaded separately.

6. Norton Family uses AccessibilityService API to collect data about websites viewed through browsers on your child's device. It is also used to prevent the child from removing permissions without a parent’s authentication.

Privacy Statement

NortonLifeLock respects your privacy and is dedicated to safeguarding your personal data. See http://www.nortonlifelock.com/privacy for more information.

No one can prevent all cybercrime or identity theft.
Updated on
Mar 13, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.2
21.5K reviews
Destiny Henning
February 15, 2024
I'm the child here. Personally, the app is fairly effective at keeping me under control. The only problem is it has a lot of bugs, annoys my parents to no end with the interface and work arounds, and sometimes blocks apps that it was fine with only a few hours prior. It also doesn't do the best job at telling my parents when I want a time extension. Overall not a bad app, just not the most user friendly.
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John Curtis
November 20, 2023
The latest release would be great if it retained the settings after they're saved. Every time I make changes, it appears they've been applied then my kids phones are locked and I go back and sure enough they're default settings again. I guess it's time to move on to another provider. It has actually been working well before this rebuild, but it is worthless at the moment.
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NortonMobile
December 1, 2023
Hello! We are sorry to hear that you are not satisfied with the latest update. We would love to take a closer look at what you reported. Please don't hesitate to drop us a message on Facebook at https://m.me/norton or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/messages/Nortonsupport.
K Wurtz
October 18, 2023
Terrible user interface. Setup is so confusing, and the links to the Help Center just say, Your page is no longer available. Location settings continually turns off. And I have to totally reenter my kids' device information. Would not recommend. I am cutting my losses and restarting my search for a better app. Google's Family Link is so much better.
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NortonMobile
October 29, 2023
Hi! We are sorry that you are not satisfied with the interface of the app. We would love to take a closer look at what you reported. Could you please send us a message on Facebook at https://m.me/norton or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/messages/Nortonsupport.

What's new

-        Minor bug fixes