Important: Location and driving safety features in Microsoft Family Safety are going away. Learn more.
Drive safety is a great way to gain insight and introduce discussions about safe driving habits in your family group. Encourage family members to enable drive safety through the Microsoft Family Safety app on their mobile phones to view a driving summary and up to two weeks of individual drive details, including route maps and the following:
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Top speed: fastest speed traveled during trip
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Phone use: detected use of phone during drive, duration of use
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Hard braking: vehicle suddenly slows down
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Fast acceleration: vehicle suddenly speeds up
Access this information in your Family Safety app and on family.microsoft.com.
Drive safety is a premium Microsoft Family Safety feature, only available with a Microsoft 365 Family subscription. Drive safety and other location-based features only support one connected device per Microsoft account.
Drive safety is currently available to subscribers with Microsoft accounts based in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, Belgium.
Set up drive safety
To begin using drive safety, firstenable location sharing on your mobile phone and in the Family Safety app. Then follow the instructions below.
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Open the Family Safety app.
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Tap the home or ☰ menu icon in the top left corner.
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Tap Settings > Drive safety.
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Turn on Drive safety toggle.
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To enable drive data sharing with your family group’s organizers, turn on Share drives toggle.
