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A free app and service that helps families create healthy digital habits and stay connected. It’s designed to support both online safety and real-world awareness by offering tools for screen time management, content filtering, and location sharing
My daughter is having issues with screen time and website restrictions. She has a child account. I am the family organiser. I cannot see her when I log into my family safety account, so I can’t remove her restrictions. can you please go into my account…
A free app and service that helps families create healthy digital habits and stay connected. It’s designed to support both online safety and real-world awareness by offering tools for screen time management, content filtering, and location sharing
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I can’t leave my family the owner is dead and I can’t leave it because of that Microsoft family safety issue some one please help me pls bill gates or Microsoft family support o already talked to regular Microsoft support and they told me to ask here and…
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I added my mother-on-law to my Microsoft Family account. I sent her the invite, she accepted, but still can't gain access. What are we doing wrong? Do I remove her and try again? If so, how do I remove her?
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i have just been invited to sharing a family account but on clicking on get started it gives me error
A free app and service that helps families create healthy digital habits and stay connected. It’s designed to support both online safety and real-world awareness by offering tools for screen time management, content filtering, and location sharing
I created my actual XBOX account when I was like 16 and then created a fake “parent account” to take the restrictions off. I know this is stupid but I made a dumb first and last name and stupid outlook email to maintain it. It is now 10 yrs later and the…
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So my Xbox account got permanently suspended on Xbox and I couldn’t see details why it happened and I was wondering if I could get this fix because I hope it’s not actually banned for a bad reason I would like to have it fixed
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Im 20 Years old, and I created a family to help my little brother (14yrs) play multiplayer (Minecraft) with me by changing the multiplayer setting on Xbox to allow for multiplayer. I already created the family and had invited him. I specifically sent…
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All along I was given I TB to my personal Microsoft Account as I had subscription to other Microsoft Account. Suddenly, I am seeing notification that I overshot my storage capacity and need to buy storage space. This is unacceptable as 1 TB was given…
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I have access to my current Microsoft account, but it is attached to a Microsoft Family organizer account that I no longer know or have access to. I do not know the organizer email, phone number, or Skype name. I need help identifying, recovering, or…
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I can't accept the invitation to the family account for some reason. It keeps saying somthing went wrong once I accept it or try to join. It tells me that something went wrong and refresh and try again later. What do I do?
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I received an invite to a family subscription after the account owner renewed his subscription. When I click "join", I get the following error. "Sorry, something went wrong. We're not sure what happened but refreshing the page may help,…
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I need help in disabling the family features, but the problem is that i can't seem to remember my password, i dont have an usb card, this account isn't signed in to an email either i really really need help on how to fix this
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My MS365 mobile account renews May 3, 2026. I wish to cancel it and join another family safety group. What steps do I take?
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I keep receiving the family status report email today. 10 times already. Can you stop doing that? It seems this issue happened many times with other customers in the past.
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I am recently bereaved and forgot to cancel the Microsoft annual payment. I need to speak to a microsoft agent.
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out of nowhere, that account started giving me this message after working completely fine for a long time, i am an adult im 18+, i don't even know if i put a wrong date of birth or not, i can't even check or open the account, and when i searched for…
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so i cant play multi player while i multiplayer is anabled i am a child and i have a family and me and my mom tryed to fix it but we dont know hot to fix our issue
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Hi I have a family group for which 3 members have joined perfectly fine. However the link to my sons didn’t work correctly, when I have tried to resend it’s saying he is already in a family group. I have contacted Microsoft via chat and they’ve told me…
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I cannot add funds to my child's account despite it working only a few days ago. I have checked card details (all OK), accounts are not suspended (mine or child's) and there are no overdue subscriptions. Any idea on what else to try? Many…
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how to disable ask to buy from my childs xbox on my computer
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