Windows 10: Manage and View Activity of Microsoft Family Child Member

How to: Manage and View Activity of Microsoft Family Child Member

How to Manage and View Activity of Microsoft Family Child Member on Windows 10, Xbox One, and Android Devices


A child's location, limit which websites and games they can access, and require your approval to purchase from the Microsoft Store.

Once you set up your family group, you can add or remove child and adult members.

When you add your child to your family group and turn on activity reporting, you'll get weekly activity report emails that show you a summary of their activity on Windows 10 and Xbox One devices, including websites they visited, games and apps they used, terms they searched for on search engines like Bing, Google, or Yahoo! Search, and how much screen time they had.

The email gives you a lot of info about your child's activities on their devices, but to see even more detail or to change their family settings go to their Activity page.

When activity reporting is turned on, a notification is displayed as a reminder to the child that their activity is reported to adults in their family.

See also:

• What is a Microsoft family group? | Microsoft Account Support
• Microsoft account | Your family
• Set up and manage your family | Microsoft Account Support
• See your child's device use with activity reports | Microsoft Account Support
• Fix family activity reporting | Microsoft Account Support

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off activity reporting for a child member in your Microsoft Family group to see how they spend their time on Windows 10, Xbox One, and Android devices.

For activity reporting to work on any of your child's Windows 10 devices, you must have the Diagnostic data level set to Enhanced or Full on your child's Windows 10 devices.

If you want to see activity from an Android device, you'll need to install Microsoft Launcher on your child's device and have them sign in with their Microsoft account.


EXAMPLE: Activity being reported notification on child's PC






Here's How:

1 Do step 2 or step 3 below for how you would like to manage your family settings online.

2 As an adult in the family, go to the Microsoft Family website, sign in with your Microsoft account if not already, and go to step 4 below.

3 Open Settings in Windows 10, click/tap on the Accounts icon, click/tap on Family & other users on the left side, click/tap on the Manage family settings online link, and go to step 4 below. (see screenshot below)



4 Click/tap on the Activity link for the child member you want to manage. (see screenshot below)



5 Click/tap on Keep an eye on kids online or Manage, and turn on or off Activity reporting for what you want for this child. (see screenshots below)

If you turned on Activity reporting, you can also turn on or off Email weekly reports to me for what you want.








If the child is above the statutory age (ex: 13), the child will have control of this setting instead.





6 If you turned on Activity reporting, you can now select to view activity from a period you want. (see screenshots below)





Apps & games
Here you can see all the apps and games your child has been using, including any that were blocked. You can also see their age rating next to the titles, and you can choose to Allow or Block apps and games right from the list. To adjust your child's app and games restrictions, click/tap on Turn on restrictions or Change restrictions.

On Xbox One, activity is reported while your child is signed in on the console, even if others are using the device.


Web browsing
This section of the activity report shows all your child's recent searches, and the sites your child visited or tried to view. Blocked sites are listed first, and then sites that your child successfully visited. You can allow or block any of the sites directly from the recent activity report by selecting Allow or Block next to the URL. To adjust your child's web browsing restrictions, click/tap on Turn on restrictions or Change restrictions.

Searches
When your child searches the web, you'll see what they looked for here.

Screen time
For a breakdown of your child's overall time spent on each of their devices, the Screen time section indicates when and for how long your child used their devices throughout the week. You'll see a list of how much time they spent on their devices overall by each day, and also how much time they spent on each device during the entire week. To adjust your child's screen time limits, click/tap on Turn on restrictions or Change restrictions.







That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Create and Set Up Your Microsoft Family Group
• How to Add or Remove Adult Member for Microsoft Family Group in Windows 10
• How to Add or Remove Child Member for Microsoft Family Group in Windows 10
• How to Manage Microsoft Family Settings for Child in Windows 10
• How to Allow or Block Family Member from using a PC in Windows 10
• How to Find Your Child in Microsoft Family on a Map
• How to Add Money to Account of Family Child for Purchase & Spending in Windows Store
• How to Turn On or Off Ask a Parent before buying stuff in Microsoft Store for Microsoft Family Child Member
• How to Manage Web Browsing Restriction Settings for Child in your Microsoft Family
• How to Manage Apps, Games & Media Settings for Child in your Microsoft Family
• How to Manage Screen Time Settings for Child in your Microsoft Family
• Hide or Show Family Options in Windows Defender Security Center in Windows 10
• How to See Devices Connected to Account of Microsoft Family Child Member
• How to Set App and Game Limits of Microsoft Family Child on Windows 10, Xbox One, and Android

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Family activity report

Hi Javier,

There are ways on how to manage activity reporting for your child. To configure your account settings, here are the steps:

• Go to the account.microsoft.com/family site at Microsoft on any PC
• Then sign-in
• Open Settings
  
• Tap on the Accounts icon
• Click on Family and other users on the left side
• Chose Manage family settings online
• Check recent activity link for the child's account

Turn On and Manage Activity Reporting for Child

• Click on Recent activity on the left side, and turn on Activity reporting.
• Check or uncheck to Email weekly reports to me for what you want.
• Under Web browsing, Apps and games etc., you can view your child's recent activity for each one, tap on Change settings
  
• Then set allowed times to manage them, and to block any apps and games.

To Turn Off Activity Reporting for your Child, just tap on Recent activity on the left side, and turn off Activity reporting on the right side.

Get back to us if the steps won't work.

 

microsoft family features

Hello,

Once your account is under a Child family member from the
Microsoft Family feature, you’re restricted to view or access a website that is set to your account. To sort out your concern, we suggest that you manage your account by following the steps provided in this article on how to
remove members from your Microsoft family.
Once you’re on the page, you may proceed with the steps and complete the process. After completing the given steps, you may check if you’re able to use your account properly.



Note: The account that can remove you from the family member is the account that adds you as a child.



Keep us updated about your concern for additional assistance.

 

Family Settings - Manage for Child in Windows 10


UPDATE: Email from Microsoft.

 

Microsoft Family Should have more than child and adult family members...

Has anyone noticed that when adding someone to the Microsoft family there is only adult and child as a selection... Wouldnt it make sense for there to also be a teenage selection for those parents who want their teens to have
control of their own settings but still be able to monitor their activity (without the teens needing the parents account info)...

I would make sense and could even be set to switch over from child to teen when the child hits a certain age...the parent could even pick the age...

Why not add it...it would be useful to quite a few people and it just makes sense to have a teen family member option

Ideas and things to take into consideration for a teenager family member option:

• Giving the teen a sense of responsibility by:
  • Allowing control over some settings
  • Option to give a money spending limit or making them able to save the money given to them over certain periods of time in order to buy something
  • ect.
• Addition of a rating limit and automatically asking the parents for permission to buy or watch something that is over the rating limit.
• ect.

This is just an idea I thought of...

If you have any support or aditional idea's for a teen family member option comment them below cause i wanna see if anyone else has ideas that would work with this...

 

Something went wrong message when my child clicks join family link in the email.

Hello,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

• Is the Child account a Microsoft account?
  

The issue might be due to the age verification, hence I suggest you to verify the child’s age by logging in with child’s account on
account.microsoft.com/family and verify the age.

I also suggest you to refer the article
Add members to your family group to get more information on adding members to your family account.

Regards,

Noor Azam S

Microsoft Community – Moderator