Set up your child’s contacts

Important:

• Texts sent via Rich Business Messaging or to email addresses won’t work on Google Messages when contact limitation is turned on.
• Some features including Google Messages may be limited on watches that are tethered to a phone. Supervised accounts will only be able to reply to incoming text messages.

Contact limitation for messages are only supported in Google Messages and Samsung Messages on watch. You can always block other apps through Family Link.

If your child has access to other apps like WhatsApp and Google Chat, they can still call and text numbers that aren’t in their parent-managed contacts, even if you limit contacts. Learn how to block other apps.

1. On your Android device, open Family Link .
2. Select your child’s account.
3. Tap Controls Contacts, calls & text ​ + Get started.
   • Or, tap Add contacts.
4. Enter your name and phone number.
5. To add your contact info to your child’s contacts, tap Save.

Tip: After you add your info, you’ll find the list of “Parent-managed contacts.” This list contains the contacts in your child’s account that you added or approved. You can add or create more contacts for your child and choose who they can send and receive calls and texts from.

1. On your Android device, open Family Link .
2. Select your child’s account.
3. Tap Controls Contacts, calls & text.
4. Tap Add contact Select from your contacts Allow.
5. Choose contacts from your list that you want to add to your child’s contacts.
6. Tap Add.

Tip: You can add up to 100 contacts.

Important: In the Family Link app, the new contact is added only to the child's device but not the parent's contact list. Those contacts aren't actually added to the child’s profile. Unless the parent-managed contacts are synced to Google contacts, those contacts will be lost when your child turns 13 (or applicable age in your country) and chooses to update their account.

1. On your Android device, open Family Link .
2. Select your child’s account.
3. Tap Controls Contacts, calls & text.
4. Tap Add contact Create new contact for [your child].
5. Enter the contact’s information.
6. Tap Save.

1. On your Android device, open Family Link .
2. Select your child’s account.
3. Tap Controls Contacts, calls & text.
4. Tap the contact you’d like to edit.
5. Add or update the contact information.
6. Tap Save.

1. On your Android device, open Family Link .
2. Select your child’s account.
3. Tap Controls Contacts, calls & text.
4. To remove a contact, swipe left on the selected contact.
5. Tap Remove.

If you set your child’s calls and texts permission to "Only contacts I add," they can send you requests to add new numbers to their contacts. You’ll receive a notification to approve or deny the request.

1. On your Android device’s lock screen or notification center, tap the Family Link notification Your child wants to add a new contact.
   • Or, on your email notification, tap Review request.
2. Tap Review.
   • To approve, edit, and save the contact, when “Add new contact” notification appears, you can tap Edit Save.
3. At the bottom of the notification “Add new contact,” tap Approve or Deny.

Tip: You can edit the contact before saving it to your child’s contacts.

If you set your child’s calls and texts permission to "Only contacts I add," they can only participate in group chats in the supported apps with allowed participants. The child can send a request with all the numbers that require approval and all numbers need to be approved for the child to interact with the group.

1. On your Android device’s lock screen or notification center, tap the Family Link notification Your child wants to add a new contact.
   • Or, on your email notification, tap Review request.
2. Tap Review.
   • To approve, edit, and save the contact, on the “Add new contact” screen, you can tap Edit Save.
3. At the bottom of the screen, tap Approve all or Deny all.
   • When you approve the group chat’s numbers, you also allow your child to send and receive calls and texts from them outside of the group chat.