To give parents more control over their children's phone usage, Google launched an app a little over a year ago called Family Link. Now, the company is expanding the app to support Chromebooks, adding many of these features to that platform.
Parents will be able to whitelist the websites that children are allowed to visit, as well as limit usage time, remotely lock devices and monitor all usage. Chromebooks, for the first time, with supervised accounts will have access to Android apps from the Google Play Store.
Android apps can be whitelisted or hidden from the device, which can be very useful for shared devices. To top it off, parents will be able to manage in-app purchases.
Google will allow the user to set up supervised accounts for teens, but teens will be able to disable these controls. The user will receive an alert when this happens.
Chromebooks, even if they don't turn into tablets, have an advantage over the iPad, they're great as shared devices. So, as they support multiple accounts, it's easier to have a gadget that anyone in the family can access without having contact with other people's stuff.
Source: The Verge
