Chrome & your child's Google Account

When your child has a Google Account, they can use Google Chrome on their Android device or Chromebook.

Learn more about Chromebooks and your child’s Google Account.

How Chrome works on Android or Chromebook

Children signed in to their Google Account on an Android device or Chromebook have a similar, though different, experience from adults. Available features may be updated from time to time, but for now some of the differences include:

Children won’t have access to apps from Google Play and Chrome Web Store.
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.
As set up in Family Link, by default, Chrome browsing tries to block sexually explicit and violent sites from being shown to children.
Chrome Sync is required for certain parental management features to work with your child’s Google Account. You 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 information won't be used to personalize ads.

Manage your child's activity on Chrome

Note: These settings only apply if your child is using Chrome on an Android device or a Chromebook.

Manage your child's browsing on Chrome

Open the Family Link app .
Select your child.
On the "Settings" card, tap Manage Settings Filters on Google Chrome.
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.
Tap 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

Open the Family Link app .
Select your child.
On the "Settings" card, tap Manage Settings Filters on Google Chrome Manage sites Approved or Blocked.
In the bottom right corner, click Create .
Add a website or domain.
In the top left, click 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.

Open the Family Link app .
Select your child.
On the "Settings" card, tap Manage Settings Filters on Google Chrome Chrome dashboard.
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 already granted will still be in place.

See or delete your child's Chrome history

See Chrome history

On your child's device, open the Chrome app .
In the top right, tap More History. This page shows your child's recent Chrome history.

Delete Chrome history & data

Browsing history

Open the Family Link app .
Select your child.
On the "Settings" card, tap Manage Settings Filters on Google Chrome Chrome dashboard.
In the "History" section, tap 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.

On your child's device, open the Chrome app .
In the top right, tap More History.
At the bottom, tap Clear browsing data.
Check the boxes next to the type of browsing data you want to remove.
Tap Clear data.