Let your child use Google Assistant on your devices

Children under 13 (or the applicable age in your country) can take many of the same actions as adults, like:

• Ask Google questions
• Play games
• Listen to stories
• Play YouTube videos or songs from YouTube Music in available regions.

Tip: For your child to play music and videos with Google Assistant, you must give your child access to YouTube, YouTube Music, or any third-party media apps.

Children can't:

• Make purchases
• Use some non-Google actions, unless they have the "For families" badge

Tip: Children may be able to interact with Android applications installed on the device using Google Assistant.

1. Connect your phone or tablet to the same Wi-Fi network as your speaker, Smart Display, or Smart Clock.
2. On your phone or tablet, open the Family Link app .
3. Select your child.
4. Tap Controls  Content restrictions  Google Assistant  Add your child to new devices.
5. If you have multiple devices, tap the box next to each shared device you want to add your child's voice to. If not, skip to step 6.
6. Follow the on-screen instructions to sign your child in.
7. Hand the phone or tablet to your child.
8. Help them teach Google Assistant to recognize their voice.

1. Connect your child’s phone or tablet to the same Wi-Fi network as your speaker, Smart Display, or Smart Clock.
2. On your child’s phone or tablet, open the Google Home app .
3. At the bottom, tap Home .
4. Touch and hold the shared device you want to add your child’s voice to.
5. At the top right, tap Device settings   Link with Voice Match.
6. Follow the on-screen instructions.
   • Tip: To give permission, sign in with your password.
7. Hand the phone or tablet to your child.
8. Help them teach Google Assistant to recognize their voice.

1. Connect your child’s phone or tablet to the same Wi-Fi network as your speaker, Smart Display, or Smart Clock.
2. On your child’s phone or tablet, say, “Hey Google, open Google Assistant settings.”
   • Tip: Make sure your child’s profile picture or initial is showing.
3. Tap Hey Google & Voice Match Other devices   Add device with Voice Match.
4. Select the shared devices you want to add your child’s voice to.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions.
   • Tip: To give permission, sign in with your password.
6. Help them teach Google Assistant to recognize their voice.

If the Google Assistant isn't recognizing your child's voice, you may need to train it again.

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls  Content restrictions  Google Assistant  Teach Assistant [child's name]'s voice again  Retrain.
4. Hand your phone or tablet to your child.
5. Help them teach Google Assistant to recognize their voice. 

If the Google Assistant doesn't recognize your child's face, you may need to train it again.

On a phone or tablet:

1. Open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls  Content Restrictions  Google Assistant  Teach Assistant [child's name]'s face again.
4. To teach Google Assistant to recognize their face, follow the on-screen instructions.

You can let Google Assistant read or show personal results for your child, like their calendar events and reminders. Learn more about personal results.

If you turn off personal results for your child for a shared device, Google Assistant won’t give info specific to your child on that device. This includes results from their calendar and reminders.

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls  Devices.
4. Tap the device.
5. Turn Personal results on or off. 

Important:

• Your child can turn personal results on or off in their Google Home app or Google Assistant app. You won’t get a notification if your child changes this setting, but you can always check their settings for shared devices in the Family Link app or their settings for personal devices on their personal device.
• If you turn off personal results for your child for all eligible devices, Google Assistant won’t give info specific to your child on any of those devices. This includes results from their Google Calendar, Gmail, and Google Photos.
• The personal results setting below applies to:
  • Your child’s phones and tablets
  • Shared speakers, Smart Displays, Smart Clocks, and TVs

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls  Content restrictions  Google Assistant  Turn off personal results  Turn off.

1. Connect your child’s phone or tablet to the same Wi-Fi network as your Nest Hub Max.
2. On your child’s phone or tablet, open the Google Home app .
3. At the top right, tap your child's Profile picture or initial Assistant settings Face Match Set up Face Match.
4. To set up Face Match, after you give parental permission, follow the on-screen instructions.

Important:

• To delete your child's face model from your Nest Hub Max, disable Face Match in your Family Link app.
• If you remove Voice Match for your child, it also disables Face Match.
• When Face Match is disabled, your child's face model will be deleted from the Nest Hub Max. This won't delete the enrollment images you used to create their face model. To delete Face Match enrollment images, sign in with your child's account and go to g.co/assistant/match.

Disable Face Match in the Family Link app

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls Devices Nest Hub Max Remove Face Match.

Important: If you remove Voice Match for your child:

• Google Assistant will no longer recognize your child’s voice or provide their personal results on the shared device. This means your child won’t get a personalized experience and might be able to access content that would otherwise be restricted.
  • To remove Voice Match from your child’s phone or tablet, go to Assistant settings on that device.
• Your child's voice model will be deleted from the shared device. This won't delete the enrollment clips of their voice used to create their voice model. To delete Voice Match enrollment clips, sign in with your child's account and go to g.co/assistant/match.
• If Face Match is set up on a Nest Hub Max, Face Match will also be disabled and your child’s face model will be deleted from that device. This won’t delete the enrollment images used to create their face model. To delete Face Match enrollment images, sign in with your child’s account and go to g.co/assistant/match.
• Your child’s account will be removed from the shared device.

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls  Devices.
4. Select the shared device and tap Remove Voice Match Remove.

Important: If you remove Voice Match and Face Match for your child:

• Google Assistant will no longer recognize their voice and face on any devices.
  • To remove Voice and Face Match from a specific shared device, go to that device’s settings in the Family Link app.
  • To remove Voice Match from just your child’s phone or tablet, go to Assistant settings on that device.
• Google Assistant will no longer provide their personal results on shared devices.
• Your child’s account will be removed from shared Google Assistant devices.
• On some devices like phones, Google Assistant might no longer respond to “Hey Google.”
• Your child's voice and face model will be deleted from Google Assistant-enabled devices. The voice and face models might not be deleted from a device if it’s not connected to the internet, not running the latest version of Google Assistant, or an older device. In cases like these, to remove the voice and face models, factory reset the device.
• Enrollment Voice Match clips and Face Match images will be deleted from g.co/assistant/match in your child’s account.
• After your child’s voice and face model are removed from all Google Assistant-enabled devices, you can add them back to devices later. To do so, follow the steps to “Set up Voice Match” and “Set up Face Match.”

• These steps aren’t available on Google Pixel Tablet. You’ll need to follow these steps on another compatible mobile device.

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls  Content restrictions  Google Assistant  Remove Voice Match or  Remove Voice Match & Face Match Remove.

Tip: You can also remove Voice Match from all devices. To remove Voice Match, tap Remove Voice Match from all my devices.

You can control whether information about your child’s contacts and apps from their signed-in devices is saved to your child’s Google Account. This data affects your child’s experience across Google services, including Search and Assistant.

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls Account settings Privacy settings Account data settings.
4. In the ”Other account settings” section, manage contact and app info from devices.

Learn more about contact info saved from signed-in devices. 

Learn more about app info saved from signed-in devices. 

1. On your Pixel phone, open the Settings app .
2. Under "All settings," tap Explore.
3. Tap the app’s icon.
4. In the "Details" section, check for the "For families" badge .

1. Go to assistant.google.com/explore.
2. Select an app.
3. In the “Details” section, check for the “For families” badge.

1. On your device, open the Family Link app .
2. Select your child.
3. Account settings  Controls for third party apps Manage third party app access. 
4. If you have third party apps, you can tap them to change access.

If you allow your child to use certain non-Google actions:

• Google won't share recordings of your child's voice with these apps.
• A transcript of what your child said can be sent to these apps.
• Google won't share your child's personal info with these apps, like your child's name, email address, or precise location.
• If an app needs to save info, like your child’s answers to trivia questions, it will be saved to a unique code instead of their Google Account.