Work around for anyone who has a child who needs to be supervised on an Android phone while having access to linked accounts (e.g. Spotify) with their voice recognition on Google Home devices
This can be achieved by using a separate account from your child's android device (their normal supervised account). Create a dummy account which you control but has your child's voice recognition added to it (you will need to set this up with your child). This needs to be an over 13 year old account and can be added to your Google Home family group. You can link it to your child's Spotify account by being signed in to spotify as your child when you link spotify in your Google Home account (signed in with the dummy account). I did this using spotify and google home on my iPhone but presume it will also work with the same on an android phone. If you use things like voice activated dialling of phone numbers you will need to add the numbers to the address book of the new account. It also won't share search results with their phone but that's a small price to pay.
Now I just need to wait for spotify to realise that I don't only listen to gamer glitch tech earache music.
There is functionality in the Family Link app to allow the supervised account to use voice commands on your Google Home devices but that doesn't seem to manage the linking to their spotify account. I turned this off so that there was no confusion between which account my son's voice would activate on the home devices. Come on Google, you can do better with your mountain of cash and army of PhDs!
