We’ve noticed a new “Parental controls” setting in Pixel gadgets operating Google’s new Android Canary construct. It seems beneath the Digital Wellbeing possibility inside the Settings menu, and we expect it might be linked to the “Supervision” instruments we beforehand noticed in the Android 16 Beta 4 launch.

Google’s new Android Canary launch channel provides builders early entry to in-progress Android options. On this preliminary Canary construct, the new “Parental controls” setting hints at future updates to youngster security instruments on Android.

The outline of the setting reads, “digital floor guidelines & display deadlines.” Nevertheless, tapping it presently doesn’t open up something in the Canary construct. Like we mentioned, the characteristic seems just like a “Supervision” web page we beforehand discovered in Android 16 Beta 4.

Within the earlier beta, the “Supervision” web page included a toggle to allow machine supervision and an possibility for net content material filtering. As soon as supervision was turned on by coming into a PIN for the supervised account, filters might block specific websites on Chrome and specific content material in Google Search. These instruments intention to cover inappropriate supplies on-line, although they could not have the ability to block every little thing.

The Android Canary channel is geared toward builders, and Google warns that these builds aren’t appropriate for every day customers. The primary launch is out there for a number of Pixel fashions, together with the Pixel 9 sequence, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Pill.