Google has disabled Gemini for supervised accounts in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom — a hard regional cutoff that leaves no parental override. In the US, by contrast, parents can enable Gemini for children under 13 via Family Link. That split reflects a broader global patchwork: ChatGPT offers granular controls but no chat visibility.
Meta AI shows topic summaries but not messages. Microsoft restricts Copilot to age 13+ and excludes teen data from training. Anthropic bans minors outright. No provider lets parents read actual conversations.
None offer real-time monitoring. And none have built AI-specific toggles into iOS 27 or Android’s Family Link, so blocking an AI app means blocking the whole app, or the whole browser, unless the provider itself supplies controls. The result is a fragmented, reactive landscape where parents are left assembling safeguards like mismatched puzzle pieces.
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