Google Wallet is coming to your kids’ phones in 2025

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• After starting on the Fitbit Ace, Wallet for kids will be coming to phones.
• Parents will have access to administrative tools and be able to see transactions.
• Availability should get underway sometime next year.

In 2017, Google introduced Family Link, a way for parents to easily monitor their kids’ phone usage with flexible parental controls. Since then, the service has steadily gotten better, but there’s one thing a lot of parents have been asking for: on-device payments. Google launched Google Wallet for kids on the Fitbit Ace earlier this year, but smartphone payments still weren’t possible. Starting next year, that will change.

Google will release Google Wallet for Android devices that have Family Link set up on them in 2025, 9to5Google reports — and it’s about time.




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