Unblock thousands of educational websites in one click with Family Safety on Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Family Safety helps empower you and your family to build healthy digital and physical safety habits tailored to your everyday lives. It allows you to create a safe space for your kids online with content filters to customize what they can and can't see online while using Microsoft Edge. Family Safety recently launched a new feature, Always allow educational websites, where families can now allow their kids to explore thousands of educational sites with a simple toggle. Parents still can manage which educational websites should be blocked based on their family needs. To try out this new feature: Visit Family Safety on Microsoft Edge at family.microsoft.com and log in with your family account or create a new one. Select a family member you would like to apply settings for. Navigate to the “Content Filtering” tab and turn the “Only use allowed sites” toggle on. Turn on the Always allow educational websites toggle. Learn more about how to set web filters online What counts as an educational site? We classify educational sites as websites that may be needed for remote learning, completing homework or for after school enhancement. This feature uses an AI-generated list curated and maintained by our Family Safety team. would love to hear from you if you think a site should be included or is incorrectly categorized. To submit feedback, selectSend your feedback about this feature below the toggle in the Family Safety dashboard.New Update Experience for Mac available in Edge Beta / Dev / Canary
Getting updates timely and smoothly is key to keeping web browsers secure. It also helps you try new experiences sooner on a fast-moving browser like Microsoft Edge. Since Microsoft Edge launched on MacOS, we have heard your feedback on the update experience on Mac devices, specifically: Having to update through Microsoft AutoUpdate can be confusing, especially since it typically is used to update the Office suite applications. edge://settings/help was not always consistent with Microsoft AutoUpdate in showing update availability Update experience was not rapid: when you close and then reopen your browser when a new update is available, you will need to wait until the update is applied before browser restarts. We are now excited to announce an improved update experience on Mac to address your feedback, making updating faster and smoother. This experience is currently rolled out to Mac users (both Intel and M1 users) on Beta versions higher than93.0.961.11, Dev versions higher than 91.0.852.0 or Canary versions higher than 90.0.816.0 behind a feature flag. Here are some highlights of the new experience: The new update experience is now Edge-native. It will solely be responsible for updating Edge-related products and will not be affected (e.g. blocked) by other pending product updates. Updates will happen automatically and silently, and no out-of-Edge notifications/toasts will be shown. Update sizes are now reduced by as much as 80% on average! This speeds up updates by over two thirds! edge://settings/help now more consistently reflects update status and allows seamless updates. In-app update notifications are promptly reflected when an update becomes available. When you restart the browser when an update is available, your browser will now instantly relaunch with the updated version rather than wait for update to be applied. As always, please do not hesitate to send any feedback on the update experience our way so that we can make your experience better! You can do so by selecting the "send feedback" button or going to … menu -> Help and Feedback -> send feedback.
