Thinking about creation an account for my child (9 yo) on my laptop. Question: is it a good idea to create a windows child account (with an email from MS) or I should better provide a fake age and create “usual” account or I should try to a local account only?
Asking because when I created a google child account for my another child it was over-limited like he was not able to start youtube and some other a bit crazy limitation. Moreover, there was no way to release these limits at all.
I’d make a Windows account for them. This way you can use MS’s tools like screentime and content filtering. The settings would carry over across any Windows PCs they log into.
Do you know how usable this account will be? With google it was a disaster - youtube did not work, mail forwarding was impossible to configure etc
My kid only ran into issues running stuff that required admin rights. I ended up giving them said rights on the account but content filtering and screentime still worked. I think you can whitelist websites as well.
She had the setup for a few years and she never figured out how to remove her parental lockdown.
This sounds good, that you!