# T-Mobile FamilyMode

> Locate and protect your child

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1348097043](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1348097043)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1348097043`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** T-Mobile
- **Category:** Lifestyle
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (15,921 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.2.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-11
- **First published:** 2018-07-06
- **Size:** 189 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/t-mobile-familymode/id1348097043)
- **Website:** [https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/t-mobile-family-mode](https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/t-mobile-family-mode)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.t-mobile.com/privacy](http://www.t-mobile.com/privacy)

## Description

FamilyMode is the all-in-one family safety solution that can help you locate your family in real-time and improve online habits for your kids across devices. From pausing Internet access for dinner, to rewarding good grades with more screen time, FamilyMode helps make digital parenting easier.

New features include: finding a lost phone by ringing it, sending SOS alerts with the touch of a button, and easy check-in with location sharing. You’ll still get healthy digital habits like time limits, real-time location tracking, and customizable content filters to keep kids safe online across devices.

## Rankings

- #13,809 — Overall
- #24 — parental control

## Review summary

Overall, reviews are largely negative. Pros are limited to features that work only when data is current (tracking), a data/internet pause option, and the idea of centralized controls. Major downsides include a steep, poorly disclosed $10/mo cost, repeated glitches and unreliability, difficult setup, easy circumvent by kids, and adverse effects on other apps/services. These issues undermine trust and make the app feel bloated and ineffective as a parental-control solution.

### Pros

- Tracking is useful when the data is up to date
- Internet/data pause feature for parental control
- Centralized parental controls in one app (conceptually convenient)

### Cons

- High monthly cost ($10) with unclear pricing and transparency issues
- Frequent glitches, crashes, and reliability problems (including inability to locate devices)
- Setup is overly complicated and the UI feels bloated/not user-friendly
- Kids can easily bypass protections (low power mode, uninstalling the app)
- Interference with other apps and services (VPN issues, Netflix/streaming blocks, Wi-Fi control)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1348097043)