Smart Family Companion

1.8
10.4K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Get to know the digital-you and partner with your parents with Verizon Smart Family. The Companion (or Child) app lets you see how much you use different websites and apps and with Premium, you can ask your parents to pick you up, send them check-ins, and find family members on a map.

Download our Companion (Child) app to your smartphone or your Android connected tablet and pair it with the Parent app to:
• Learn about how you use your screen time.

Select Premium to unlock map features:
• Check in
• Pick me up
• Find your family members

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Once the child’s iPhone or Android device is paired via the Verizon Smart Family companion app, the parent app can configure parental controls (iPads aren’t currently supported). If enrolled in Smart Family Premium, the parent app can also monitor location and driving history – for either a driver or a passenger.

What’s New:
• Simple, easy to use interface.

This app uses Accessibility services to support parental control features. Accessibility services are used to block children's access to websites prohibited by parents and to prevent children from disabling other parental control features.
Updated on
Mar 8, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

1.8
10.3K reviews
A Google user
March 27, 2019
This app is not child proof. If you click on the VPN icon on the notification bar, a screen pops up for a split second that says deactive. If you are fast enough a child can deactive the companion app and all the controls to go along with it. Go ahead kids, give it a try. Maybe when the parents complain enough, Verizon will fix it. When it does work, the app is great.
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Hunter Leal
August 18, 2020
I am a child who has this app on my phone, and it sucks. It blocks stuff just fine, which is what it is designed for, but most of the stuff the app can do you can do without it (time limit, data limit, etc.) The problem comes in when you try and unblock stuff. WiFi doesn't unpause, it'll restrict call and text sometimes even a few hours early, blocks random apps (like Amazon Music or once even my calculator app) without warning, and sometimes it just stops working, forcing you to reconnect it.
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Sophia Smith
June 18, 2021
Drains battery quickly and uses up most of my data. The location part of the app never functions properly, the location is always off of where people actually are. Should have an option for internet to be turned off, not service. I miss tons of texts as the 20 contacts aren't enough to fit everyone in, and the texts never come through, even when my service comes back on.
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What's new

Bug fixes and performance enhancements.