Google Play starts showing ‘Family’ category

At I/O 2015, Google announced that the Play Store would see a ‘Family’ category offers friendly content to users depending upon their age. That new category went live this afternoon and displays apps, games, movies, television shows, and books away from everything else in the Play Store.

Apps filters:

• Ages 5 & Under
• Ages 6-8
• Ages 9 & Up
• Action & Adventure
• Brain Games
• Creativity
• Education
• Music & Video
• Pretend Play

Movies & TV filters:

• Ages 5 & Under
• Ages 6-8
• Ages 9-12
• TV
• Action & Adventure
• Animation
• Classics
• Comedy
• Education
• Music
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Books filters:

• Ages 5 & Under
• Ages 6-8
• Ages 9-12
• Action & Adventure
• Comics
• Early Learning
• Education
• Fiction
• Growing Up
• History & Biographies
• Mysteries
• Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Sports

The filters are in place to allow parents to pinpoint content that will be a fit for their children. Parents can even filter by popular characters and find solely content involving Elmo, Disney Princesses, LEGO, Minions, and Power Rangers.

Google Play does still need child accounts. As it stands, children have to use either their own unwatched accounts or share one with parents. And there are plenty of parents that do not want to share an account with children.

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