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Restricting teens

Deez
Community Member

How do I keep my teens from resetting the google router and creating there own google home accounts and having complete access of the devices in my house

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David_K
Diamond Product Expert
Diamond Product Expert

When someone becomes a member of your home, they get the same level of access to devices and settings as you do as the person who set them up. Far from ideal for this exact reason but that's the way it works currently.

Therefore, your options are essentially:

  1. Remove your children from the home.
  2. Reset your Wifi network, create a new home in the app, and setup the Wifi in that new home. Your children can remain as members of your original home but won't have access to the new home you created that just contains your Wifi devices.

This is mostly a user to user community, therefore if this is important to you, I’d encourage you to also send this feedback directly to Google. You will not receive a response, unless Google need more details from you, however the team are still reading the feedback.

olavrb
Platinum Product Expert
Platinum Product Expert

There is also the possibility to physically reset the Nest Wifi devices and set them up from scratch with a different Google account. That's harder to defend against.


I don't work for Google.

AbigailF
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey folks, 

Thanks for lending a hand, @davidking and @olavrb.
@Deez, I wanted to follow up and see if you are still in need of any help. Please let me know if you are still having any concerns or questions from here, as I would be happy to take a closer look and assist you further.

Thanks,
Abi

AbigailF
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi Deez,

Checking back in should you still have some questions here. Let us know by replying to this thread. 

Best, 
Abi

AbigailF
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hello Deez,

I'm just checking in to make sure that you've seen our response. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns as I will be locking this in 24 hours.

Regards,
Abi