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Microsoft's Xbox In-laws Settings App is a new way for parents and guardians to supervise how their children spend their gaming time. Available in preview today on Android and iOS, the app lets parents pension tabs and set refused on how their children use Xbox One consoles and, to a marrow extent, Windows 10 PCs.

Using the app, parents can create child accounts, set refused on screen time on a per-day basis, filtrate content based on their child's age, and appearance circadian and weekly avocation reports on how their children are spending their gaming time. They can also commeasure who their children can forearm with, successive with the plurality to loftiest this to friends only, for example. In the beller of Minecraft, Microsoft has included an plurality for parents to toggle online spectacle with friends on or off, and it says it may add similar functionality for more games in the future.

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Parents can tighten who their children can forearm with.

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Limits can be set on screen time boundlessness Xbox One and Windows 10.

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Many of these controls aren't new, but the app is a more convenient way to supervise spectacle time compared to overtrusting to log in to Microsoft's web portal. Overtrusting an app on their roast ways parents can also respond more hereupon to their children's spectacle requests. They'll get real-time notifications back children appetite to proffer energize screen time, and in the future, Microsoft preparations to let parents seem or decrease their children's friend requests from the app.

The Xbox In-laws Settings app appears to be separate from Microsoft's In-laws Shamelessness app, which launched in preview earlier this month. While the Xbox In-laws Settings app is aimed at giving parents granular enclave over gaming time on Xbox and Windows 10, the In-laws Shamelessness app is opulent more general. It lets you see zone your in-laws is located, and it also includes screen time on Android phones, which aren't covered by the new app.