Where Does Family Safety Store Settings on Mobile?
Where Microsoft Family Safety keeps settings and activity history on mobile for full review.
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Family Safety keeps settings in app private storage with activity history and limits in the Microsoft family cloud. Signing in restores nearly everything that counts on every phone.
Local files barely exist beyond caches, so reinstalls cost one sign in. Organizer accounts manage limits for the whole group from any device. Screen time reports derive from cloud history, not local files, on every phone you own.
Where Family Safety stores this, by platform
/data/data/com.microsoft.familysafety/files
Settings local with history and limits in the family cloud. Sign in restores everything. Organizer manages the group from any device.
On My iPhone/Family Safety
Same cloud first pattern on iPhone with activity in the family account. Local caches rebuild on demand. Sign in restores limits.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move Family Safety to a new phone?
Sign in with the same Microsoft account and let settings sync, then verify members on the new phone. Screen limits follow the family group, not files. Reinstalls pull everything back on sign in.
Where is Family Safety activity history?
Open Family Safety settings and read the family group entries. Activity history lives in the cloud under the organizer account. The app always shows the live state after sync.
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