com.samsung.android.app.parentalcare Copy

Labelled "Parental controls" on the device and signed by the Samsung keys that also sign the Android framework, this is the Galaxy side of the parental controls entry users reach at Settings, then "Digital Wellbeing and parental controls". Samsung documents that path, and documents that the controls behind it are Google's: "parental controls with Google's Family Link app allow you to set rules for how Galaxy phones and tablets are used". The parent installs Family Link on their own device, the child's device needs One UI 2.0 or later and a Google Account signed in during setup, and no separate install is needed on the child's device because the entry point is built into Settings. 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. Samsung 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. For 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. On a company-owned or work-profile device the screen is at best irrelevant and at worst a confusing entry point for users, which makes the app a plausible candidate for blocking on managed fleets. What we cannot tell you is what disabling it actually does: Samsung's documentation covers the settings workflow, not the package, and neither the effect on the Settings entry nor any dependency on it is documented in the sources reviewed. Treat the outcome as unverified and test it on the specific One UI build before applying it across a fleet.

• Using Parental Controls on my Samsung Phone - Samsung Australia →
• Use Google's Family Link parental controls on your Galaxy phone or tablet - Samsung US →
• Learn which devices can be supervised - Google For Families Help →
• Manage Family groups and parental controls with your Samsung Account - Samsung US →
• Package provenance for com.samsung.android.app.parentalcare - Android System App Database →

• Signed by the device maker's own signing key (Samsung), so it is an OEM preinstall, and that single certificate is consistent across all 19 device profiles. It also signs the Android framework, so it is a platform-level key on its device(s). Inferred from the certificate appearing only on Samsung devices (508 packages, 10196 observations).
• Its largest observed manifest declares 33 permissions: 1 runtime (user-granted), 10 signature or system-level, 7 install-time and 15 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 9.7 MB to 20.1 MB across the reporting device profiles, so the build differs substantially between them.
• Reported as an updated system app on 11 of 19 profiles - a newer build is installed over the one in the system image there.