In Sony Interactive Entertainment, we are involved in ensuring sheltered fun to players of all ages, including improving games management methods for children. This includes the current one parental control Functions available on the PS5 and PS4 consoles, such as game time settings and settings of age limitations. Today we are glad that we can announce our next step in this commitment in PlayStation Family, a modern dedicated application of mobile parental control available on devices with iOS and Android*. The PlayStation Family application will start all over the world today.
The PlayStation Family application is a modern experience that helps parents configure and manage children’s experience on PlayStation – straight from a supported mobile device. The application contains a number of modern configurable features for parents to manage the time of play for their children, including a report on activity, greater visibility in what their children are playing and approving additional play -related conclusions – everything to touch the finger.
Here are functions from PlayStation Family App:
With a guide – Enjoy the guide carefully to easily set up a children’s account in the PlayStation Family application.
Notifications in real time- Become notified in what game the child plays in real time. Confirm or reject your child’s requests for additional game time, narrow games and communicate with a mobile device – you have the last saying.
Business reports – Browse daily and weekly reports from activity at first glance. Parents can see current information about the time of play and activity of the child.
Manage the game time – Set the game time limits for each day of the week. Children can enjoy greater flexibility, asking for additional fun from the console, while parents can approve or reject the requests from the phone or tablet.
Manage expenses – Manage expenditure activity by adding funds, watching the balance and setting a monthly expenditure limit for a child for the purchase of content in the PlayStation store.
Content filters – Select and configure the appropriate content with the button touch. We have included preliminary settings that automatically apply the recommended settings for different age groups, and each setting can also be adjusted individually to best match each child.
Social interactions Adjust the privacy settings and the way your children connect and have fun. Manage access to social functions.
The PlayStation Family application is available for download at the App Store and Google Play on most markets from today.
We are excited that we can bring an simple way to parents to manage our children’s games directly from mobile devices. This is just the beginning of our modern mobile application – we plan to continue to add improvements to the PlayStation Family application to develop this experience over time. We hope you like it and we are waiting for your opinion.
*The Family PlayStation application is compatible with iOS version 14 and Android 8 or more.
