Microsoft Family Safety App Rolls out iOS and Android Preview Versions

Microsoft Family Safety App Rolls out iOS and Android Preview Versions

Technology is making life easy for everyone, as social distancing monitoring norms tighten for good. From various apps to track mobility to linking your mobile banking apps for essential goods ordering, technology at your fingertips encourages quarantine is followed strictly. In a major step toward boosting social distancing norms and personal healthcare, Microsoft has officially launched the preview versions of its Family Safety App on Android and iOS.

For the preview link, click here.

Microsoft had announced its Family Safety App in March, which almost coincided with the beginning of the new normal in public life– quarantine-focused lockdown and elf distancing. As 90% of the workforce working from home or staring at idle job portfolios, family members are exposed to unknown physical and mental conditions. It has become an unprecedented challenge to balance work and life, as a collaboration with employees, colleagues, partners and customers take precedence. Microsoft Family Safety Apps proves to be offering to do the balancing act between working efficiently from home and spending quality time with the family members.

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Microsoft Family Safety Apps cares for your family, especially the kids an elderly– who seek more attention and time from you, even as your screen time on mobile and laptops could be multiplying 2-3 times compared to pre-lockdown days.

In the days to come, the app also promises to offer additional safety features, including safe driving, child monitoring and so on.

Here are the top features of the newly launched Microsoft Family Safety App.

  1. Real-time monitoring of digital habits, including screen time, website visited
  2. Auto-recommendations for kids’ online learning programs
  3. An email summary of your digital health choices
  4. Setting screen time limits on your favorite Microsoft devices, including the Xbox gaming kits and Mobile apps
  5. Content control on web and search, with child-care filters for kid-friendly browsing on Microsoft Edge3
  6. Location tracking of family and loved ones

Currently, Microsoft Family Safety App is launched only in its preview version. The team intends to gather as much as feedback on experience and ease of use before launching the full-blown commercial app in the next 3-4 months.

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Sudipto Ghosh

Sudipto Ghosh is a former Director of Content at iTech Series.

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