Back in March, Google launched ‘Family Link,’ a way for parents to create and manage Google accounts for their children (13 or younger). The feature ended up being very impressive, but had two huge limitations – it only worked on Android 7.0 or higher, and you couldn’t use existing Google accounts for your kids.
Thankfully, Google is working on a possible solution for the second problem. The company has updated a support page for Family Link with the below message:
You can only use Family Link’s parental supervision features with Google Accounts created using Family Link.
Google is “currently exploring solutions” for connecting existing Google accounts to Family Link was written by the awesome team at Android Police.