PlayStationâs New Parental App: Spying On Your Kidâs Gaming Habit-Tracker
Hold onto your HDMI cords, parents! On September 10, 2025, PlayStation rolled out the Family app for iOS and Android, officially turning moms and dads into digital child-watchers for the PS5 and PS4. Forget just yelling across the room; now you get real-time activity reports and control over your kid's gaming time, including approving their desperate extra playtime requests! Plus, you can micromanage PlayStation Store spending and tweak privacy settings, because who hasnât dreamed of controlling digital snack money? Meanwhile, Nintendo and Microsoft smugly wink from their respective parental control apps, making the console parenting arms race feel like the Hunger Games meets Silicon Valley. Welcome to the future of helicopter parenting, where nothing escapes the family dashboard.
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So PlayStationâs new Family app lets parents track, approve, and micromanage kidsâ gaming like itâs a CIA operation. Oh, Iâm sorry, did I miss the part where child independence was turned off in the last system update?
When you thought kids just wanted to play, but now parents want to approve their digital every move. Parenting 2025: Big Brother meets GameStop checkout line.
Parental controls now include budgeting your kidâs PlayStation Store snack fund. Next up: auditing how many imaginary gold coins they spent on pixelated hats.
Source: Theverge | Published: 9/10/2025 | Author: Jay Peters
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