Windows 10: How to Add and Monitor a Child's Account in Windows 10?

The internet is a vast and extremely scary place. Everyone loves their children, and it is scary what they may come across if their internet activity is not monitored. This is where a child's account comes in. You can now set up your child's account with Windows 10. This will be one less thing for you to worry about as parents.

Microsoft introduced the Family Safety app to help monitor the family's screen time and control excess usage. A child account can be set up and merged with this app. The process is straightforward, and you can have one running within minutes.

Setting up Your Child’s Account


While setting up your child's account, you will first need to add them to your family account to get parental control. This can be done by clicking on settings and accounts and adding a family member.

The next screen will ask if you want to add an adult or a child. You should add all members of your family for convenience. For this tutorial, select add a child and select this person does not have an email account. On the next screen, you must enter all the information for your child. You must also enter a phone number. This will help you recover the account if you've forgotten the password or if it is hacked.

You will then be asked to select if you would like that account to receive promotional offers from your Microsoft account. Uncheck both boxes and click done. Your child's account is now created. You can now configure their account settings using the Family Safety app.

Family Safety


On the Family Safety app, you can select the activity settings. Under web browsing, you can block all inappropriate websites. You can restrict all browsing only to allowed websites. You can also specifically block websites and add websites to the allowed list.

You can also limit games and apps for your child's account. Here also, you can specifically allow certain games and apps while blocking specific games and apps.

The final setting you can apply is for usage. You can choose how many hours your child browses the internet on specific days.



Time To Protect Your Children


With new parental controls, you can now control what your child sees and doesn't see. This is something that wasn't available with Microsoft before. The internet can be scary, and it is your job to protect your loved ones from it.

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Child Account Get Greyed Out

Thanks for the suggestion, but I did the following instead.

I have another laptop, 2 weeks old, with Windows 10 Home on it.

On that one, I tried the same steps with the child account, and got the exact same results.

 

Child's account monitoring no logs

Hi Rona,



Thank you for updating us. Let me help you.



I suggest you to remove the PC associated to the child via the Family Safety website to re-establish the connection by following these steps:

1. Login to

Family Safety website.

2. Go to the child's
Edit settings.

3. Look for the computer associated to the child account at the lower portion, click
Remove at the right side of the computer.

4. Go to Windows 8 Family Safety control panel, turn on Family Safety for the child account.

5. Switch user and then log in using the child account at the PC.

6. Try to do some activities on the child account such as web browsing, etc. (at least 5 minutes).

7. Log out from the child account then log in using the parent account. Verify if the activities are reflected in the Activity reports of the Family Safety website.

Reference: Refer to the following Microsoft article on
Monitor your child's device use with activity reports.

View device and app use with activity reporting - Microsoft Support

Check if it resolves the issue.



Keep us posted on the issue. We will be happy to assist you further.

 

Issues with using Family Safety on Windows 10 and child device is not monitored by parent account.

Hi Joe,



I realize the inconvenience you are experiencing with Windows 10. I will certainly help you.



This issue might occur if monitor the child device activity is disabled in the Family Safety.



I suggest you to follow the steps provided in the Microsoft Help Article about setting up Family Safety account and how to configure the child limits.



Set up your family:

Getting started with Microsoft Family Safety - Microsoft Support

Set the right limits for your child:

Filter apps and games with Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Support

Monitor your child's device use with activity reports:

View device and app use with activity reporting - Microsoft Support

Please get back to us with an update on issue with configuring child account in the Family Safety, we will be happy to help.



Thank you.