Parents can now ask Google to lock their teenager's smartphone Google’s ‘Family Link’ made for parents to control the screen time and smart device usage for kids is now available for teens as well. The search giant has updated ‘Family Link’ that now lets parents lock the smartphones of teenagers using the same Google accounts. Teens can still access the smart device once it has been locked by parents but it will send an alert to them. “Family Link originally launched for kids under-13, but we’ve heard overwhelmingly from parents that the app is still useful as their kids enter their teen years. Unlike what’s there for kids, the new ‘Family Link’ features for teens won’t let parents change the passwords of their devices or change the device itself. They can however, simply ask Google Assistant to lock the devices. They can give a voice command “Hey Google, lock Tim’s device” giving them few minutes to finish off whatever they were doing on th...