Guide your child's Gemini Apps experience

You can give your child under 13 (or the applicable age in your country) access to Gemini Apps. As a parent, you're in control of your child’s Gemini Apps access, including turning it on or off, using the Google Family Link app.

Our filters try to limit inappropriate content from appearing, but they're not perfect. Your child may encounter content you don't want them to see. Like many other AI apps, Gemini is conversational and can feel like a human. It's important for you to help your child understand that it's an AI tool, not a person to confide in.

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Help your child use Gemini Apps responsibly

To help guide your conversations about using Gemini Apps in a responsible way, use the reminders and resources below.

Explore together

As your child is learning how to use generative AI, explore the tool with them and supervise their use.

Try Gemini Apps

Your child can use generative AI to learn and be creative. With Gemini Apps, they can do things like:

  • Ask questions about things they’re curious about, like why the sky is blue or how long dinosaurs lived.
  • Be creative by getting help writing a story, making up a silly song, or brainstorming ideas for their next art project.
  • Get a little help with learning. If they’re stuck on a tricky math problem or a book report, Gemini Apps can give them clues and explanations to help them figure it out themselves. Learn how to use Guided Learning and create study materials.

Learn about generative AI & Gemini Apps

Learn about using generative AI and responses from Gemini Apps. Here are some resources to help get started:

Remember that Gemini isn’t a person

Help your child understand that although Gemini is conversational, it's not a person and cannot think for itself or feel emotions. Its responses can sometimes seem overly encouraging or supportive. Remind them that they are interacting with an app, and Gemini should not be treated as a friend or used to discuss personal problems or secrets.

Remind your child not to enter personal information

Let your child know not to share sensitive personal information like their address, school name, or family information in their chats with Gemini Apps.

Double-check responses

Gemini is new and evolving, and can hallucinate and present inaccurate information as factual.

Help your child think critically about Gemini Apps responses and teach them how to use the double-check response feature.

Here are some resources to learn more about responses:

Report inappropriate or inaccurate content

Our filters try to limit access to inappropriate content, but they’re not perfect. Your child may encounter content you don’t want them to see.

If your child encounters inappropriate or incorrect content, you or your child can report it.

You can report it by submitting feedback or your child can mark it as a bad response.

Added protections for minors in Gemini Apps

Content filters

To help protect all users, Gemini Apps attempts to identify and block harmful content, avoiding certain responses that violate our policy guidelines like violence, sexually explicit material, and harassment. For more information about these types of responses, review the policy guidelines for the Gemini app.

Added content filters for minors

In addition to the protections for all Gemini Apps users, there are added content filters for minors who are signed into their Google account. These additional protections are designed to provide a more protective experience for minors, including filters to avoid Gemini claiming to be a person or having human emotions, or role-playing as a harmful character.

These filters have been designed for minors and try to limit access to inappropriate content, but they’re not perfect. Your child may encounter content you don’t want them to see.

Privacy

The Keep Activity setting is not available to users under 13 (or the applicable age in your country).

Gemini Apps availability for supervised accounts

Important: We’re gradually releasing access to Gemini Apps for supervised accounts, so access might not be available to your child just yet even if you have Gemini Apps enabled in Family Link.

Gemini Apps are not available for supervised accounts in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Gemini Apps feature availability for supervised accounts

Some Gemini Apps features have age requirements and are not yet available for supervised users.

Gemini as the digital assistant on Android devices

Important: "Hey Google" and Voice Match are not available to use with Gemini Apps for users under 13 (or the applicable age in your country). "Hey Google" and Voice Match will still work with other devices, like Smart Displays and smart speakers that support Google Assistant. Learn how to set up "Hey Google" and Voice Match for shared devices.

Manage your child’s access to Gemini Apps

A parent must enable access before their child under 13 (or the applicable age in your country) can use Gemini Apps with a supervised account. When your child first activates the app, you’ll receive an email notification. You can change your child’s access to Gemini Apps at any time.

  1. Go to familylink.google.com or open the Family Link app Family Link.
  2. Select your child.
  3. Tap Controls and then Gemini and then Gemini Apps.
  4. Turn Gemini Apps on or off .
Turn off a child’s access to Gemini Apps in older versions of Family Link

If you use an older version of Family Link, to turn your child’s access to Gemini Apps on or off:

  1. Go to familylink.google.com or open the Family Link app Family Link.
  2. Select your child.
  3. Tap Controls and then Content restrictions and then Gemini and then Gemini Apps.
  4. Turn Gemini Apps on or off .
Troubleshoot your child’s access to Gemini Apps

If your child is unable to access Gemini Apps or gets an error message that "Gemini isn’t available for your account," try the following steps:

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