

It makes sense to create an app called Wallet because GPay and Google Pay both support non-payment cards such as theme park tickets and airline passes.īut it feels as if the wound had just healed and now Google Wallet is back for who knows how long before the company gives up and moves on … again. I’ll be honest, half the time I’m not even sure which I should be using! Now, it seems that we’ve come full circle back to Wallet. Actually, maybe “after” isn’t the right word because they both exist right now. Adam Doud/Digital TrendsĪfter Google Pay came GPay. Given Google Pay’s Venmo-like features, it makes sense why the company would want to create an app that allows users to easily pay one another and manage finances in other ways, but the complete abandonment of Google Wallet was a blow that took some getting used to. It was a great idea and one that many people would likely have adopted and relied on if Google decided that it wanted to support the app in any way before tossing it aside in favor of the next thing, Google Pay. I think that metaphor got away from me a little bit there, but you know what I mean. Other times, Google farts out decent-smelling ideas only to waft them away before the rest of the room can notice. Sometimes Google is killing it, standing proudly behind products for years at a time like Android and the seemingly uncountable number of smartphones and devices it makes. Google, we need to have a chat about consistency. For more information about how a Family Link account works with Google Home and Assistant, see the Google for Families Help. These limits apply on any Google Assistant devices where they are enrolled. Once your child is enrolled, they can only access non-Google Actions with the “For families” badge and are prevented from taking certain actions, such as making purchases through Assistant. On shared devices, you can link your child’s account to the device using Voice Match, so Assistant can recognize them. You can set limits for individual children using the parental controls offered in Family Link. You can also decide if these settings apply to guests and supervised accounts managed with Family Link, or all users of that device.

With these settings, you can manage downtime schedules, content filtering settings, and limit certain activities, such as phone calls. You can set content controls for shared devices in your home, like smart displays, using the Digital Wellbeing controls in the Google Home app.
