How to manage groups and devices in Premium WiFi

Groups allow you to easily set controls for online content and internet access on multiple devices. Learn how to create and manage groups in the CenturyLink app.

You can also manage individual devices.

Device groups

Creating groups is the first step in controlling content or access schedules for any given device or multiple devices together. As examples, you could group all your kid's devices, all your smart home devices, all devices in a particular room, or all TVs.

How to create a group

See the steps for creating a group of devices.

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1. From your home dashboard, tap on your current plan in the Internet section.

home screen of CenturyLink app showing Internet section

2. Scroll down to Device Groups. Tap on an existing group to manage it.

3. Select Create a group and give the group a name. Note that this is also where you can Pause all groups to block WiFi access across all groups, regardless of any schedules that have been set up.

screenshot from app showing the Device Groups section of the Internet screen

4. Tap the pop-up to Assign devices to group. If you select Not now, you can come back later to do this, but you must assign devices before the group will be active.

5. Select the devices you'd like to add to the group. You can select devices that are currently offline, as long as they have been connected to your network in the past. You cannot assign a device to more than one group to prevent conflicting settings. Tap Save.