Safe Family: Screen Time App 4+
GPS Tracker & Parental Control
McAfee, LLC.
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Safe Family’s simple parental controls allow you to track your child’s location using a GPS map. You can set rules & time limits as well as blocking social media apps.
Help your kids develop healthy habits online and make parenting in the digital age a breeze with McAfee Safe Family parental controls. Safe Family is now included with certain McAfee security products—visit mcafee.com to learn more.
McAfee Safe Family equips parents with easy-to-use tools needed to improve visibility and digital safety for their children, such as screen time management, app blocking, live location alerts and more. Shield your kids from dangerous and inappropriate content by monitoring their activities on their smartphones, tablets and PCs, instantly blocking apps you deem unsafe. Safe Family supports an unlimited number of devices, so everyone is covered.
Remember what family dinnertime was like before smartphones? Get that quality time back – digitally lock your kids’ devices (and maybe even your spouse’s) using our time-out feature.
No more worrying about your kids going to a friend’s house. Receive alerts when they arrive at or leave designated locations that you set like school, home or Amy’s house.
McAfee Safe Family includes:
• Screen Time Management
– Control screen time and set custom time limits
• App Blocking
– Block inappropriate or time-wasting apps
• Digital Time-Out
– Lock devices on command until chores are done
• Website Filtering*
– Automatically blocks inappropriate and dangerous websites
• Web and App Usage History*
– See what your kids are up to on their devices
• Block In-app Purchases†
– Stop unauthorized spending online
• Location Alerts
– Get notified when your kids leave or arrive at designated locations
• Location Tracking
– Monitor your kids’ location with device tracking
• Permission Requests*
– Allows kids to request more screen time or to use a blocked app
• Uninstall Protection*
– Prevents kids from deleting Safe Family without permission
Try our 30-day free trial – offers the full McAfee Safe Family experience for free. McAfee Safe Family supports an unlimited number of your kids’ devices, including smartphones, tablets and PCs. You have the option at the end of the 30-day free trial to sign up for a monthly or yearly subscription.
Payment info:
• Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
• Paid subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
• Auto-renewal can be turned off by going to Account Settings after purchase
• Length of subscription: monthly and yearly
• Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription
† Only available on iOS
* Only available on other operating systems
McAfee Safe Family is only available on smartphones, tablets and PCs (not available on Macs). For a full list of system requirements, please visit mcafee.com/systemrequirements.
Please visit our website family.mcafee.com to learn more about how we keep your family safe. Find support or give us feedback on Safe Family at service.mcafee.com.
View our privacy policy at mcafee.com/legal.
What’s New
Version 2.9.4
Your family’s safety is our top priority. We’re constantly working to improve our service to make sure your kids are safe and building healthy habits online.
This update includes:
• Various bug fixes and improvements
Ratings and Reviews
McAfee promises so much delivers so little for iOS
This app simply does not work of Apple products. It crashes CONTINUALLY to the point where you will take 10 mins simply to try and change any restrictions you wish to have on your children’s devices (it crashes in seconds after opening it)On iOS you cannot track movement or location and it crashes so quickly (within 10 seconds of opening the app) that there is no ability to regulate anything. This came as a complimentary download with our Optus Plan but they would be better not to even offer it on iOS devices.
Just a complete disappointment.
*Update. The developer got in touch and after going through the issues I had been having the latest update has made the app more useable and it no longer crashes.
Developer Response ,
Hi. We are sorry for this inconvenience. Kindly update the Safe Family app to the latest version, then restart your device. If you still notice the same issue, contact our support team at service.mcafee.com/contact. We are more than happy to assist. Thanks!
DO NOT GET
Hands down the worst app ever. This app has rendered my sons new phone useless. Even after deleting his profile from my phone it still is in lock down. I have wasted a whole day trying to fix. Left with little choice but to reset his entire phone. Just the way everyone wants to spend their weekend. Save yourself the hassle and get use another app.
To update - interestingly it was my 14 year old son who found a way to solve the problem. He was able to disable my access to his phone through the app setting (his profile was still on my phone). This effectively makes this app a complete joke as kids can disable the monitoring capacity of their parents. I spoke with a friend who is a software developer who had a look and commented that a good portion of computer savvy kids today would be able to hide from their parents or block their access. So, for two reasons, it stuffs up your phone and it is a very poor monitoring system, don’t get this app. NOT SAFE!
Developer Response ,
Hi. Thanks for reaching out. Kids can disable the Safe Family app by turning off device admin however in your parent app, you will see an activity notifying you that your child has made the changes. We would like an opportunity to speak with you and address all your concerns. Please reach out to our support team at service.mcafee.com/contact. We are more than happy to assist. Thanks!
DO NOT GET THIS APP!!!!!!!!!
Originally I thought this app was great. It worked for the first 15 minutes. After that it started blocking almost all of my children's apps, until there was nothing left but some of the apps their iPads came with like settings and iTunes. Even once we deleted the app the problem didn't stop. After much frustration we found the problem. We had to delete the profile from settings.
Please fix this for future users. I will not ever get this app again.
I had the same problem as Gupshaney. So this wasn't a one off thing. Both of my children had the same problem.
App Privacy
The developer, McAfee, LLC., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- McAfee, LLC.
- Size
- 37.1 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2016 - 2021 McAfee, Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Safe Family Monthly $12.99
- McAfee Safe Family Monthly $8.99
- McAfee Safe Family Yearly $54.99
- Safe Family Monthly $11.49
- Safe Family Monthly $3.99
- Safe Family Annual $129.99
- Safe Family Monthly $6.99