Hi I want let my 9-year-old play Fifa on our TV / Chromecast - using his own account.... afaik, that needs him to connect using the Stadia app... But: how are you supposed to install the Stadia a...
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Hi I want let my 9-year-old play Fifa on our TV / Chromecast - using his own account.... afaik, that needs him to connect using the Stadia app... But: how are you supposed to install the Stadia app onto a phone using a Family child account? AFAICT, because Stadia is 18 rated, it cannot be installed. Ever. That means: you cannot connect any child Stadia account to the TV (he can play via a session in a web browser of course, but that's not the point) My attempts: 1. Tried to install Stadia App on his phone. I disabled all the age filters for him for Apps in Family and also in the Play Store on the phone itself - when I try to install any 18 rated app, i.e. Stadia (but also others), I get told "sorry, you are not old enough". (despite the age filters being off) When I try other apps e.g. Prime Video or Netflix, rated 16, I get a pop-up asking for a parents password... 2. I tried using my Stadia App on my phone and switching accounts: but when I try to login as my son, I get told that it is a Family controlled account and that it might lead to "stuff getting mixed up" 3. I try I tried downloading the stadia APK on his phone: Family blocks my son from installing untrusted apps. Maybe there is a way around that restriction? 4. I tried installing a second user on my phone: This works, but then I ran into the same restrictions as his own phone (not surprising, really) . Obvs I have looked at the other posts - plenty of annoyed people, but none of their solutions has worked for me so far. I am in Germany, and I wonder if this leads to an extra restriction? I assume it MUST be possible since others seem to have succeeded, but arrggghhhhhhh....... Maybe I am missing some small setting I need to alter, but this is crazy. It really seems a bit pointless to have settings in the Family Link app to allow an 18 rated content if it is then silently blocked by other rules. And to have Stadia menu in Family Link to control the content, if you cant install Stadia! It also make little sense to me to rate the Stadia app as 18 in the first place - considering Prime and Netflix are 16. Does anyone have any good ideas on how I can fix this?