Verizon Family Companion

1.9
10,4K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

With the Verizon Family Companion app you can keep up with your family and they can keep up with you. Dependents on the Verizon Family account can:
- Locate Guardians, Members and other Dependents (if granted location sharing permission)
- Send a check-in (a location update to Guardians)
- Send a Pick-me-up request to a Guardian
- Start or receive a Safe Walk and send or receive an SOS
- View your driving insights

The Verizon Family Companion app is intended for minors in the family. Adults can use the Verizon Family app.

This app uses Accessibility and VPN services to support parental control features. Together, the Accessibility and VPN services are used to block children's access to websites prohibited by parents and to prevent children from disabling other parental control features.
Updated on
Oct 15, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

1.9
10,3K reviews
Hunter Leal
18 August 2020
I am a child who has this app on my phone, and it sucks. It blocks stuff just fine, which is what it is designed for, but most of the stuff the app can do you can do without it (time limit, data limit, etc.) The problem comes in when you try and unblock stuff. WiFi doesn't unpause, it'll restrict call and text sometimes even a few hours early, blocks random apps (like Amazon Music or once even my calculator app) without warning, and sometimes it just stops working, forcing you to reconnect it.
53 people found this review helpful
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Kurama
02 September 2020
Found out recently that this app is blowing up my limited data usage without even being opened. Nice job, Verizon. Edit: I honestly can't stand this app. Now it's a permanent icon on my notifications bar, saying that it's updating data. I wouldn't care if this app didn't start kicking me to the home screen once I turn my phone on, even if an app was active while I turned it off. Fix these issues and kids wouldn't have so much of a problem with this parasite on their phone.
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Sophia Smith
18 June 2021
Drains battery quickly and uses up most of my data. The location part of the app never functions properly, the location is always off of where people actually are. Should have an option for internet to be turned off, not service. I miss tons of texts as the 20 contacts aren't enough to fit everyone in, and the texts never come through, even when my service comes back on.
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