McAfee Safe Family
The facts below are what the maker publishes about McAfee Safe Family, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From McAfee Safe Family's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | Priced on request | — |
| Monthly | — | — |
| Annual | Priced on request | — |
| Annual | — | — |
The facts
Each one read from McAfee Safe Family's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Activity monitoring
- Parents can monitor their children’s daily device activity.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Activity reports
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Alerts
- The product can send real-time notifications when a child violates a device rule.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Content filtering
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Digital timeout
- Parents can set a digital timeout to help children focus on family time.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Flexible rules
- Parents can create flexible rules that grant extra screen time or access to favorite apps and sites.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Location
- Parents can monitor children’s location and receive alerts when they arrive at or leave a known place, such as home or school.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Location tracking
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Management
- McAfee says parents can configure controls through the Safe Family app on desktop or mobile.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Pricing display
- The product page shows monthly and annual purchase options, but their prices render as dynamic placeholders rather than amounts.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Safe Family is parental-control software intended to help parents keep children safer online.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Retired
- McAfee says it retired Safe Family on August 31, 2026, and asked customers to uninstall the app from all devices before that date.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Screen-time controls
- Parents can restrict when children use their devices and set screen-time limits.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Screen-time schedules
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Supported systems
- McAfee lists iOS 16 or later, Android 10 or later, Windows 10 (RS5) or later on x64 processors, and Windows 11 or later on ARM64 processors.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- App and website controls
- The product can block apps and filter inappropriate or distracting websites.checked 12 Oct 2026
- App blocking
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- San Jose, California, USAchecked 4 Oct 2026
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