Enable “Apps from unknown sources” in the phone’s settings, on the child’s device.In Family Link, on the parent device, select the account, go to the device tab, then Settings, and enable “Apps from unknown sources” If you are using Family Link, allow unknown sources for the child’s device first:.With this, you can circumvent the Play Store’s age restriction easily. How to install the (Android) app directly from SpotifyĪs an alternative to the Google Play Store, Spotify also publishes its app as an Android APK package for custom installation. You can not customize the Spotify usage restriction on Family link, because this is per app (will affect the whole browser usage).Playback is sometimes a little bit flaky, when the phone gets into lock mode.With this, they can now each listen to their favorite tracks on my family plan. Create a link on the Home screen which they can use.Go to on their phone’s web browser (Google Chrome in my case).Spotify has a quite decent Webplayer, so you can use that instead of the age-restricted Play Store app: Linked the kid’s accounts to the family plan.Created new accounts for each of the kids, with their birthday set to make them over 18.Subscribed to the Spotify Premium Family plan with my own account.With this, they can still use Spotify, while being protected by Google’s Family Link. While I did not want to cheat on the age of the Google Account (for Family Link reasons), I decided to get an account for each of my kids with a “custom” age value.

Must be 18 or older, or be 13 or older and have parent or guardian consent. Depending on the country, that is: Per the End User Agreement, in Switzerland, for example, the requirement is: There are actually two restrictions: Children under 13 are not only disallowed to load the app from the app store, and they also can not get an account from Spotify. Not to mention, that the Spotify Kids app is not available in my region, too.

Recently I bought Spotify’s family plan, only to find out that I can not install the Spotify app on their phone from the Google Play Store at all.

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