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Google for its part supports supervision on Android devices running Android 5.0 and up. Samsung also offers a separate, Samsung-account-based family group with its own controls, which is a different mechanism from Family Link and is documented separately by Samsung.\n\nSamsung does not publish a package-level mapping for this settings entry, so the link between this package and that screen rests on the app's device label and Samsung's documentation of the screen itself rather than on a vendor statement naming the package. In this dataset it appears only on Samsung devices running Android 14 and higher, which reflects what has been submitted rather than when Samsung introduced it; we could not source the version at which the package first shipped.\n\nFor Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use it has no role. Family Link supervision is a consumer feature driven by a personal Google Account and a parent's device, and it is not a management channel an EMM can use or should rely on. 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