Windows 10: Family settings despite not being part of a Microsoft family

Andrew5124 · Mar 31, 2021

Recently I have been unable to use any search engines besides Edge. When I try I receive a family features pop up stating "You'll need to ask to use this app" and "
You can't use Firefox because of your family safety settings, but it doesn't hurt to ask" I am not a part of any family groups in microsoft, I am the only user on this computer, and I can say with a fair degree of confidence my family wouldn't know how to set one of these up. Any suggestions for what I should do?

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Brink · Mar 31, 2021

Changes in Microsoft family

Changes in Microsoft family

There’s a lot happening over the next few months. We’ll update this page regularly to give you the latest on Microsoft family.

Updates

Recent activity you can act on

On the redesigned recent activity page, you can see how your kids are spending their time on each PC, from the apps and games they’re using to the websites they’re visiting. And while you’re looking at their recent activity, you can decide whether or not something is right for them, and block or allow it right there.

Simpler settings
We’ve heard your feedback that some of the settings are too confusing and hard to use. So, we’ve made some changes to make it easier -

For web filtering, we reduced the options down to a few crucial ways to keep your kids safe when they're online. We now automatically block adult content in their web browsers, and if your kids are very young, you can allow them to access only specific web sites that you want them to see.

For apps & games, we've simplified how restrictions are set. You can choose an age setting for them, and based on that, they'll be able to only download apps and games that have been rated appropriate for their age.

For screen timers, we've taken the complex graphs and settings and simplified them down, while giving you the flexibility to easily control when your kids can use the PC.

We believe all these changes will make it easier for you to manage your kids settings on their Windows devices.

A new home for family
Family Safety is now part of account.microsoft.com, which is the single place to manage everything connected to your account. To manage your family and kids’ settings, go to account.microsoft.com/family. Right now some of the settings pages still live on the old site—some things will look the same, and some will look different—but over the next few months, everything will be updated and moved to account.microsoft.com/family.

Changes to linked accounts
If you’ve linked your kids’ Family Safety accounts, you’ll see that each of them are listed individually and that you now have to manage their settings separately for each device. We know this may be painful for some of you, but we’re doing this to make way for a simpler, better experience: roaming your child’s settings with their Microsoft account. We appreciate your patience as we make these changes. A few other notes:

If devices show up on your list that you no longer use, you can select “Remove” to get rid of them.

You’ll get a separate activity report email for each device.

Coming soon

Kids’ settings go with them
On Windows 10, you’ll need a Microsoft account in order to use Microsoft family whether you’re a part of a family as an adult or a child. When kids are added to a Microsoft family with a Microsoft account, any time they sign in to a Windows 10 device, their settings will be applied and their activity will be reported to the adults in their family. Adults can always turn off activity reporting or remove kids from the Microsoft family at account.microsoft.com/family.
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Source: Microsoft account | Whats new for Microsoft family

PreciousLeb · Mar 31, 2021

Microsoft Family

Hi,

It could be because of the settings on the Family and Safety feature or the account you're using is added to a Family. With that being said, we suggest that you check if the account that you are using is a part of the
Family list. To check on it, go to Cortana
and search for Family Options.

To remove your account to the Family, you may follow the steps below:

Use the Adult account to log in using this link.

Click on the Family tab.

On the account that you want to remove, click More > Remove from family.

Then click Remove to confirm.

Let us know how it goes and feel free to get back to us if you need further assistance.

Martin Biddiscombe · Mar 31, 2021

No longer part of the family setting

Original title: Family safety

When I migrated from Windows 8 to Windows 10, I went through the laborious process of converting all my children's local accounts (which had family safety, time limits, etc, etc) set up on the PC itself (and which worked perfectly well thank you very much),
to Microsoft accounts, in order to use the "improved" (hah!) family safety settings.

It was all (kind of) working for a couple of months. My main bugbear with it is that having set a daily time-limit for the children, if I then want to allow them some extra time (e.g. to finish off some homework), I have to actually log on myself and visit
the family settings part of the Microsoft account website, rather than just clicking on a dialog box on-screen and entering my password. That's a massive step backwards in usability, IMO.

Anyhow, that's not my grumble today. Somehow my 8-year-old has managed to modify his account settings, so that he is no longer part of the "family". His entry in the "Your family" (https://account.microsoft.com/family#/)
page now says "Once <email> has signed in to a Windows Phone or Windows 10 device, it'll show up here." As a result, none of the web filters or time limits I'd set up apply to him any more.

What has he managed to do, and how can I prevent him doing so again?

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