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Verizon Family Companion Positive Reviews

Need parents to see this, 15 yr olds perspectiveSo, I have this app because my parents are over bearing or whatever. I don’t really mind it because they have it paired with the normal apple restrictions so it’s like it’s not even there, plus they already take my phone at night and read my texts so this app is the least of my worries. However, I saw a lot of people referring to the kids who gave it zero stars as brats and stuff (many adults said this is how you know it works) but have you guys thought about how your kids are actual people, little kids absolutely need this app but 14+ is when kids start to experience life more and while you can allow them to not have social media and stuff, it doesn’t really do you any good. Because your kids will just find ways to bypass it, they’ll find ways to get sneakier and hide stuff from you, you can absolutely have this app for your children but you have to deal with the consequences of your relationship with them being strained. Imagine that you are the parent of these children complaining, imagine the resentment. Is it really worth all the trouble? Is it really worth messing up your relationship because you wanted to see a couple of your kids tests? Also I do understand that some kids are higher needs so it does depend. Anyways think really hard on how it will impact your kids because I can tell you first hand that it will hinder their ability to socialize and stuff .(btw some of the kids have valid points and some of the parents have valid points but it’s nuanced).SophiawuznthereVersion: 1.92.9

Helps GREATLY with brain impaired when it worksI have a brain impaired son, who also has a diagnosis of autism. There have been people tricking him and pretending to be someone they are not, and others trying to groom him to get to take him to Mexico for personal male sexual purposes, trying to open Social Security accounts for him when he was already on it, & getting those mail and items directed to his home, he also worked very deliberately over time trying to isolate him from his family and support system. He must have something detailed in many features & aspects, secure to keep him alive & SAFE, and when smart family works you pretty much have something to help with that. It can save a life for the brain impaired. The problem is this app for years has been having trouble pairing with the child app to control the phone, and there are safety issues that need this kind of an app not only to exist, but to work. Look on Verizon message boards, people I’ve been having trouble for years getting the app to pair, which should be a very simple matter. Now please resolve that but public you must know that there are situations & the life of youth & some adults that absolutely need something like this application! It is literally a very, very, serious matter; but the app and pairing must work easily for it to be a working program..MoonBlue2Version: 1.55.8

PARENTS DO NOT GET THIS APPAbout a two years ago I got my daughter her first phone. She is 13 years old and is going to the 9th grade. The guy at the verison place told me that I could get it set up on her phone and I thought it was a good idea. I didn’t even think about her privacy and about me having trust issues. When I set it up I blocked all apps that can allow her to communicate with any other person except for family. I’m thinking back to it and It just sounds controlling. We’ve been arguing a lot ever since I got it on her phone and she never wants to do anything with me. She also has social anxiety and I always tell her that she needs to make more friends but I blocked her from doing that. She’s so used to being in her room and never going out or talking to anyone because I never let her. This app has ruined our relationship. I still have it on her phone because even though our relationship is bad she doesn’t get in trouble and I know she can’t talk to bad people. I know this sounds crazy but I dont think I can ever let this app go. I’ve just gotten used to having her phone under my control and I dont think I can trust her with out if Im being honest.Yofavv_ayeayeVersion: 1.20

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Verizon Family Companion Negative Reviews

Cellular IssuesSo I am the child in this situation, and this isn't about me being like ungrateful or whatever towards my parents, this app genuinely made it hard for my phone to function. Unless the app was updated on all sides, I wasn't able to get cellular service. I also was not able to update my phone unless the app was updated, which I didn't realize until after my phone got stuck on "verifying update" for 19 or so hours (i had to let my phone die entirely before it would even let me use it). Once we finally deleted the app off my phone, my phone was working much smoother, until about two days when I completely lost cellular service, and I decided to try to redownload the app to see if it was an issue there, but it wouldn't even let me log in because it said I needed to be connected to a Verizon Cellular Network. I had to replace my old phone because of these cellular issues, and I don't want to have to replace this phone, but this is getting out of hand and is very stressful, because without cell service, I cant contact my parents when I leave the house, and they cant see where I am in, and what would happen if there was an emergency? I have no service or anything so I couldnt call for help. I dont know if there can be resolved, but I've tried to call Verizon Customer Support and the call doesn't go through, and I used the troubleshooting software and did everything it said to and no difference was made. So if anyone else has had this issue; please let me know what you did to fix it..Mp2026Version: 1.59.5

DisgustingRuined my trust, privacy, relationship with my parents. I haven’t done anything bad on my phone even before this app, but because I have this app on my phone. I know my parents don’t trust me. And Ive noticed myself talking to them less. I don’t want to be friendly to people who don’t trust me. I’ve had this app for about a year and we still aren’t friendly to each other. It’s so hard because before this me and my parents would talk everyday about school and my problems and I trusted them with pretty much everything about me. I had a good relationship with both of them. But now, I can’t tell them about anything because I’m scared they’ll betray me somehow. I’m a teenager. I’m not a bad teenager though. I don’t smoke,drink,send nudes. And I get good grades. The worst thing I can possibly think of me doing is I curse around my friends (like most teens do) but that’s not a reason to add this to my phone. Now a couple of my relationships have gotten worse with my friends because we used to be there for each other. If they needed to vent, I was always there. But now, they can’t vent to me anymore or curse because they know my parents are watching. This would be fine if not for corona. I can’t see them in real life so for serious times I can’t be there for them. Just, don’t get this app. Have a talk with your kids instead. Tell them what not to do for their safety. If you get this app, they will assume that you don’t trust them (like I do.) and your relationship might be ruined..Scary_kerriVersion: 1.20

This app is... underwhelmingOk. I am 14, and I’ve had this app installed for quite a while. I will start by dividing this into two sections: Parent, and Child. Child: You’re parents either made this app sound really REALLY bad, or good. To those who believe you’re parents can view everything you do, and everything you see; this is not the truth. With this app, you can see: your location, your past location, what apps you are on, how much time you spend on your phone, and your call/text history, and block websites/apps. With this app, you cannot: see your search history, see what you text, see what you do on apps, or notify your parents if you attempt to access a blocked website/app. I get it, this is very controlling and privacy-interfering, but this is not as NEAR as bad as some make it sound. There are many ways to get past this. In fact, just scroll down a bit and you are sure to find more than a few viable options to “overcome the obstacles” that come with this app. Parents: Look, I get it. There is reasons to check your phone, but this app doesn’t work well at all. I don’t want to be a whining teenager that freaks out and leaves bad reviews because their parents are “spying” on them, but this app is bad. I am not an idiot, it took me a couple minutes to figure out how to bypass all of this apps features, without notifying the administrator. If you are looking for a way to see what your kid does, I completely get it, but this app won’t cost you anything, and will cost you a monthly fee..Now thats a lot of damageVersion: 1.5.2

DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!This is the worst app I have used to track activity. The interface is so hard to use and is so confusing. It’s always lagging and slow to process when I hit the buttons. I genuinely hope no one else downloads this app because of what a bad experience my family had using it. It can’t even track basic location. At this point, I might as well use Find My Friends to view locations because this Verizon app does a terrible job. Also when I tried to contact them for help, they blew me off! Apparently with a terrible app comes terrible customer service as well. Anyways, the person helping me was so inconsiderate and blamed me for using the app wrong when I followed all of HIS instructions. In fact, his guidance made the app even worse because I was drowned in useless notifications that were triggered by the slightest movement made by anyone in my family. It made it so hard to focus when I actually had to work or when I was simply sleeping at night. Another annoying and pesky problem was its random updates and USE OF MY PHONE WITHOUT MY CONSENT. Any app that does not ask for permission does not deserve to serve any demographic. I sincerely hope that this app is taken down because it’s beyond its saving point. Honestly, my son who just started computer programming in college could design a better interface/app. If I could I would not even give it one star so trust me when I say DO NOT GET THIS APP!!! From one mother to another all it brings is inconvenience and excessive pestering..Christine.nguyenVersion: 1.16

Horrible appI’ve had this app for a very long time already. I feel like my siblings developed more of an attitude towards my mom not because they want technology it’s just things have gotten unfair for no reason at all and we’re always tired now. I barely have time to talk or call friends especially because were in covid I can barely talk with anyone. They want more “family time” when that’s all we do all day are around family. I don’t think they know that we have friends that make us happy and I just hate this app because it’s tearing the family apart and it feels like parents have lost trust in the kids. There is no reason to. I wake up early get my stuff done do everything I need to and I still do not earn the things I work hard for. My teenage years especially my older brothers are getting torn apart. This is going to ruin people’s social life. I don’t know why this app is created. “to stop phone addiction” yes I heard that. But with us we do everything all day I clean I do my school my school work I do more chores I help make breakfast lunch and dinner I do anything I can just to get 30 minutes to play on my ps4? Or 1 hour to be on my phone? Before COVID happened I was actually really into sports and did so well in school but now I have all this stress on me my grades go down I can’t ask for help from friends like we used to do IN SCHOOL I can’t have my phone literally during school when I need it most to help my grades. because this app..Ely.._:)Version: 1.18

Goofy ahh appWhy was this even created bro, if ur a good parent you’d know to just talk with your kids so they feel open around you and can have conversations ab stuff without feeling weird. knowing my family put this on my phone WITHOUT ASKING OR TELLING ME trying to sugarcoat what it was just makes me sick. i'm not 5 anymore. i'm turning 15 in around 2 months. i know parenting is hard, but if i was the parent i would never invade my child's privacy without their permission like that. its just so dumb especially keeping tags on literal 15 year olds. people really be braindead. me personally i would never take that level of disrespect. i deleted the app, don't know if i should confront my family about it i'm just disappointed i actually started to get close with them and develop a healthy relationship then boom they do this. not cool man. get your kids a game tablet or something. but seriously giving parental control to teenagers who have no idea that their stuff is being monitored is just sick. it makes a little more sense with little kids since they’re like really young and you wanna keep them safe but 15 year olds, come on bro i think we’re old enough. i would prefer if my parents blocked social media apps on my phone or something and explained to me what it was in the beginning or something like that, rather than all my activity being watched constantly. i wouldn’t have known about the app if i hadn't been suspicious and clicked on it..KeksoebdjdiVersion: 1.23.4

Disgusting ahh appIt’s actually sad how this app is in the category of “lifestyle” because this app literally RUINS trust in family’s. I have had this app on my phone and it is so stupid. I have NEVER done anything to do something completely against my moms wishes, yet she still feels it right to know what her teenage daughter is doing at all times. This app is a total violation to personal space and should not even be an app. After eight at night I cannot text, call, or even listen to music. It makes no sense because if I was in a dangerous situation and I needed to call somebody, I could not get that safety. This app made me loose all of the respect that I originally had for my mom, because it is so obnoxious and honestly hurtful that she doesn’t even want me to have personal space.I’ve gotten in trouble for literally setting my alarm at night (since she is able to see when I access my phone) for school the next morning. I cannot have personal conversations with my friends because their personal information would be able for MY MOTHER to look at. My friends and I literally have to text each other on the notes app to have personal conversations because of my mom. It’s gotten to the point I don’t even text my friends anymore because they do not feel comfortable having conversations with me. This app is so stupid. So, parents, if you actually want to have a healthy connection with your child, do not get this app. It’s actually sad if you were thinking of putting this app of your kids phone, or actually have this app on your kids phone already..HdksojrbVersion: 1.23.5

Love you Mom, but...This app pretty much turns my phone into the ladybug phone from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I would be fine with it just being a thing where they can see my location, but also being able to look at who they are texting and what apps they are using is a bit of a privacy issue, I love my parents a lot but I am in highschool I think I should have a little more privacy than them being able to see what I do on my phone 24/7 (FYI, there are already setting in the settings app that allow you to block websites like ph and other stuff from being on your kids phone, and you can use the Find My iPhone app to see where your kids device is). This part is for the rest of the parents who may see this wanting to install it on their kids phone, I see what you are trying to do, keeping your kid safe, but in reality it just makes them fall out of touch with their friends and family, I can’t even text people who don’t have an iPhone anymore because of this, it also randomly shuts off certain apps like safari doesn’t work on my phone anymore because someone blocked a website and now the whole app is broken, just gain trust with your kid, think about it, it’s corona time kids need to be able to talk with their friends and you being able to see when and who and all the other things is just very annoying and an invasion of privacy. Also, you as an adult and a parent, would you really want your mom or dad when you were younger hovering over your head like a puppeteer seeing and controlling the things you can do, and who you talk to, no, that’s what I thought..Seemore ButssVersion: 1.17.5

This is messed upIt is terrible when your having a conversation with someone and you can’t even finish because of the restrictions. I go to look of something about school or a celebrity’s and it’s restricted. I want to play a game it’s restricted. All my photos are restricted so if I wanted to go thro memories I can’t. I wish I had more time. My adoptive mom put this on my phone when I was in 6th grade witch is understandable. But, I’m a few months away from my Junior and I’m graduating early without their help. I have perfect grades and I haven’t been in trouble since 6th grade which is a long time. And I have Improved so much but I still don’t feel like they trust me they say they don’t but not if they still have this app. Verizon, if you were us would this for you? I wouldn’t think so considering with everything that’s going on in the world. I rather be distracted with my phone then to see this hatred world turn on each. And when it hits 10 and your having a good conversation but you can’t finish it because of the restrictions and what’s worse is that since you can finish the person or people your talking to think you mad at them or if some one is in need of help or support because of depressing thought and you can’t help them because this app is a thing. You have the time restriction you feel helpless like you can’t help that one person that needs it the most and you hope and pray that they are still going into the next day. Because if they aren’t that guilt of feeling like it’s your fault stays with you forever..DjfgnvcVersion: 1.18

It Lies!!Don’t download this app parents! You can’t trust it! It lied on me! It told my dad I had been on all these web sights and that I had been on face book and other stuff. When I told him it was lying he didn’t believe me and I got in trouble. He said “why would it say you had been on these web sights if you haven’t?” All I could say is I don’t know because I really didn’t. I did one bad thing and they put restrictions on my phone! I regret it so much! But now they treat me different. Parents, kids are going to mess up. But if they only mess up once please give them a second chance and don’t download this app. This app completely broke my trust with my parents. I feel it is an invasion of privacy. I am a teenager. I want to talk to my friends, and tell them about stuff that I don’t want my parents knowing! Give your kids their privacy! How would you feel if you messed up ONCE and you felt horribly about it. You tried to apologize but they didn’t care. They didn’t trust you anymore. They treated you different now. They put restrictions on your phone. You feel like you can’t even talk to them about stuff now because they will take it the wrong way because of what happened in the past. I am a good kid! I make good grades, I hang out with good people, I don’t drink, do drugs, etc. I made one mistake and that ruined my whole relationship with my parents. If you want to keep a good relationship with your kid then talk to them about their mistake and give them a second chance. I wish my parents would have done that for me😔.Alayna_33Version: 1.15

The app is good, the intention isn’t.Yes this is a good FUNCTIONING app. It works well and it lets you see your kid’s internet searches and who they text. It also lets you turn off their internet whenever you want. Before you buy this app thinking it’ll be great, let a teen of a parent with this app tell you the downsides. Your teen wants your trust and it’ll make them feel SO GOOD to know they have it from you. This app will show them you don’t trust them. Do you want that? As young adults we can’t be sheltered like little kids, it’s our time to figure ourselves out. Your kids are not getting drugs or putting themselves in danger online 90% of the time. Are there kids who do that? Yes. But don’t let the small percentage get you paranoid. We know you want us to be safe and even if we don’t show it, we appreciate that you care. So thank you! But please, put some trust in your kids so they can become successful adults who can create their own personality’s and opinions. I’m not saying you shouldn’t care what your teen is doing online, but if you wonder about it, TALK to them. Have a conversation in a friendly way! ASK them how their lives are! Not everything needs to be a lecture. We know there’s bad things out there. But we also know we can keep ourselves safe. In conclusion, trust us please! If you have a young child with a phone, this app is more reasonable for them. But if you have a teen, let them communicate and interact in the way of their generation. The choice is yours, but you could risk a healthy relationship with your child by getting this app..Batteriesnotincluded 3Version: 1.17.5

My Honest Review.1 year ago my mom put this app on my phone. I was really upset because I thought she didn’t trust me to go to bed when I needed to. I’m gonna agree I was really bad in the past. I never went to sleep. But after a year I have changed and my parents still don’t trust me to go to sleep without getting on it. When I tell them that I am capable of going to sleep now without it on they don’t listen to me. It hurts me because I don’t think I can be trusted at all. I’m not a bad kid! I get A,B,C’s on my report card. I don’t sneak out. I don’t cuss. I do everything I’m supposed to do, and I actually listen to my parents 99% of the time. 2 days ago my mom added “School Hours” and Made my “Night Hours” to 8 O’clock pm and it used to be 10! My mom refused to listen to how I feel which made me so hurt I cried like 5 times that night and had so much an anxiety. She even took my messages off. It use to be I could text certain people and now I can’t. So when I wanted to talk to someone to help me calm down and get my life back together, I couldn’t. And I didn’t do anything wrong. This app makes me feel like I can’t be trusted which now me and my mom are not as close and we have never been so mad at each other In are life’s and it’s because of this app😕. If you want your kids to come to you when you need them too. And just trust you. Don’t get this app. It’s that easy....Lilly VassalllVersion: 1.14

Do not waste your money on this appThe app sends screen time and other alerts to parents and they are completely false and unreliable, writing this as someone who’s had this app as a restriction on their phone for a few years and it is useless. It sends reports randomly and falsely, for example sending an alert that a child is sending texts during school hours, when in reality the phone was left at home, or sending a report of a child spending 3 hours on “banned apps” like i and snapchat, when in reality they where not installed. The screen time reports are also unreliable putting things into extremely vague categories like “Music, Games, entertainment, and other” which typically don’t report higher than three minutes a day no matter how much time you spent on your phone. Not only does the app send false reports but it doesn’t report real information like deleting text conversations and doesn’t really block banned apps, they can still be installed. The only thing it does when screen time is enabled is block the wifi connection, which doesn’t work well since you can somehow still text and also use apps that don’t require internet. I don’t understand why an app this useless was created, it honestly seems like a joke. Please do not waste your money on this app and just use the regular apple screen time settings..Timothys motherVersion: 1.83.12

Version PlanAs a 11 yr old I’ve had this app the DAY I got my first phome which wasn’t a hand me down. Having this app for a long makes me realize my mother doesn’t want me having fun and having a open social life. I honestly hate telling anyone I have this on my phone because I know for a fact someone is going to make fun of me. Seeing kids go on them phones during the day and during school really hurt me because I was never able to experience this. I hate always trying to log on into apps and seeing “ No connection “ or something like that knowing when kids don’t have to see that. Out of all the kids my age I feel like I’m the only person in my school or my friends that have this. I remember one time it was the end of the day by 9:45 and I wanted to go on my phone. I told my sister to rate stuff for a game and she did. Then she started taking pictures of herself on MY phone which annoyed me but I went on with it. Soon when she left the game had reloaded ( Genshin Impact ). When I was logging on i realized my internet time has ran out and I couldn’t play and get my dailys. I got mad and sad so I went to complain to my mother and she said I could play for more time tomorrow. 😐I LITERALLY HATE WHEN PARENTS DON’T TRUST YOU WITH ANYTHING . ANYTIME I THINK OF THIS STUPID APP AND HOW IM REALLY THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS IT, IT MAKES ME CRY AND BURST INTO TEARS KNOWING MY MOTHER DOESN’T WANT ME TO HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE. Anyways thats it, Don’t let your kids have it I absolutely hate this app and wish I can scream at the owners myself 😞☹️.NotMakcamnoVersion: 1.22

For FELLOW STRICT PARENT KIDSThis is freaking dumb. I already have the find my friend app on my phone. There is no reason they shouldn’t trust me. I’ve had this app for 2 years now on my phone. They are way too insanely strict. Plus my parents played around with the settings recently to block my internet and restrict some things and messed up my phone. It literally does not connect to the internet anymore and everything is glitchy and no one knows how to fix it. All my ways I would get around this dumb app don’t even work anymore. Before they broke my internet, They would randomly pause my internet and forget to unpause it or put some weird restricted hours on my phone when is literally QUARANTINE and I don’t have a schedule with my life. Very very dumb. I don’t get why apps like this exist. They’re controlling and an invasion of privacy. If anything things like this make me more sneaky. FOR ANY OTHER KIDS THAT HAVE THIS APP.. If your parents paid your internet or put restrictions on what hours your internet is working here’s a trick. Download the app called VPN 360. Then open the app and click on connect, go to your settings and click on VPN (under personal hotspot) then change your VPN from smart family to VPN 360. When you go to the VPN app it should say connected. This will open up your internet to work for almost anything. The only troubles I’ve run into is it won’t work for Disney+ or Netflix. But otherwise it normally works. My heart goes out to all of the kids with overly strict parents. I feel your pain. 😓❤️.Captainbeardbeard!!Version: 1.15

Hate this appI had this app for a year last year but when i got a new phone my parents decided to take it off, i wasn’t able to text people at certain times of the day, and i was only allowed a certain amount of contacts which sucked because when new friends asked for my number i said i have restrictions on my phone and it ends up never working, i can’t call a new number so if my friend needed to use my phone to call someone they weren’t able too, i couldn’t call people unless my parents allowed to me to which was extremely annoying, you have ZERO privacy. parents should learn to talk with their kid and try to reason with them instead of fully invading their privacy and ruining their social life. my parents decided to put it back on my phone but this time with even more restrictions, the times that they want to put limits on my phone are times that friends ask to hangout or do stuff, it’s insane that you get no privacy from this app. i’m sure our parents wouldn’t like it if we could see their texts and their browsing history and limit their contacts and apps and see when we’re on our phone. i get the intentions are good but the app is horrible for anyone who wants to have trust with their kids. so parents, try to reason with your kid instead of invading their privacy and ruining their social life..Kab123.Version: 1.25

Depression-DO NOT GET THIS APPIt’s really upsetting because it makes me feel like my dad doesn’t trust me. I don’t even know why I have a phone if I can’t text or call my friends, or even family. I get that they want to know where I am, and I’m ok with him tracking me. But I have had SO MANY anxiety attacks because I can’t get on quizlet to study even before 10 because my phone is disabled from WiFi and data. Sometimes I don’t get home till then because of the sport events that my parents made me go to. They make me feel like I’m going to failure tests because I HAVE to go to bed at ten. And when I tell them I need WiFi they just assume I’m going to be texting my friends or playing games. I’m a good student and I really care about my grades, and I definitely could’ve done a lot better on my tests if I could’ve had ten more minutes just 10. Also if my friend had a really bad day, and they texted me, and as a friend, you should be there for them, but no. Then the next day they are hurt, because you didn’t answer. And if you tell them it was because of this app, it seems like a really lame excuse. I’m not rebellious at all and I’m a good student, and before this app, I really thought my parents trusted me. Then I realized they actually don’t, and think they need to turn off my phone. Most of the time it doesn’t even affect me. But the nights I really need to study or someone to talk to, I can’t have that. Because of this app. So if you’re a parent reading this thinking about getting this for you and your kid, please don’t do this to them. :-(.Eve67820Version: 1.15

This app is horribleI just got this app and my parents are gonna turn off the Wi-Fi early, and they can track everything we do. With this app my parents put down the Wi-Fi and we probably won’t get it till later on until the day. I understand our parents are trying to help but it won’t help, i cant download apps I like without getting permission, I can’t have social media, and now they are taking away the Wi-Fi. My parents told my sister and me that if we are on the phones to check something at school it will be turned off. This app is telling me that my parents don’t have trust in me and my sister. We are starting to feel that we aren’t trusted anymore and that our parents think we will do something bad. I’m starting to think about it and I feel like they want us to get away from friends and stop talking to them and doing the things we like. They want us to do other activities but we never have time for them. I hope they delete this app from their phones. This happened on my other electronics, they always paused the Wi-Fi and left us bored. We would only get Wi-Fi for 2 hours, we are doing good in school and I don’t get why they do this. It’s getting boring and I wish I could stop it. And also with emergencies they can turn it off in school but what if there is a sh**ter we can’t contact our parents..JaydoonoVersion: 1.22

Hey.. I really don’t like this appWell first I’m not going to burst out in anger like I want to but just saying that yes we get that parents are trying to help us. They try their best and I can see that in my mom, and no I’m not the best person to get advice from. Parents just why don’t you let us do things on our own thing. I’ve read a lot of the comments and see each side of the story. Yes the app has caused problems for my data and it won’t let me connect to the house WiFi. Some of the apps that are kid friendly won’t even work. But I see that the parents are trying their hardest to probably be involved as some of them would say. I’m just saying that I do not like that they turn my phone off whenever they want to. The tracking part of the app where you can tell where they are is really helpful. Since my sister had gotten into a car wreck and we couldn’t find her so we tracked her phone using the app(she is safe now). But I agree with the kids that this is an invasion of our privacy, and take note that I’m not doing this in a complaining or screaming way but in a calm tone. So parents I wouldn’t suggest this app for you to help your kids because it takes things away from them and some of the things do not work in the app. Please find another one that would probably only be for tracking the phone purpose. That has helped a lot in the past and would have been better if it was a different app since it took so long to load up during the situation☹️. Scared my family half so dead. Parents please don’t get this app but maybe a better one since this takes maybe too much of the child’s life away..Mad person who was niceVersion: 1.11

Please do not get this.I am the lesser person in this situation, my mom uses this on almost all of my devices. It works exactly how it’s supposed to and that’s the problem. You may want to say I’m a bratty kid for this but please try and understand my position. This app has completely ripped apart my bond with my mother. Fighting with her gets tiresome and I have a right to be able to talk crap about her with my friends over text. She can go gossip about how terrible I am but I don’t have the right to do the same thing without her being able to read all of it. She can access everything on my phone and even brings it up just to start an argument. She wants me to be able to trust her without giving me that same benefit. Any relationship with any person will crumble without trust as a basic support. I need every parent that downloads this app to understand that. This is killing me. Late at night when your child can’t sleep, thought are flooding their mind. What if some of those thoughts are a risk to themself? If you want this you’ve probably considered screen time, right? Yeah. Stop considering. Because when your all alone and don’t have enough trust or comfort with your parent you aren’t going to vent to them. Your kid needs an outlet. Especially at night! Your kid could be suicidal and you wouldn’t even know. But there are websites for them to go to. To be able to talk to someone. If their phone is locked at 8 because of screen time they don’t have that option. And that’s scary. I’m speaking from experience on this one. So again, please don’t download this for your (mature enough) children. Give them space to grow and thrive..TrashRaccoonVersion: 1.24

This app is the worstMy mom has used this app from the very start I got my phone and it's ridiculous on how she's addicted to it. She uses it because she doesn't trust me because of things I did when I was about 10 years old and now it's like I can't do anything. I can't call half of my friends and I can't text them without Verizon texting me and saying I can't text them or call them because of this app. I just think it's so stupid how this app stops you from doing the things you would normally do and to keep you from doing the things you would normally do and the things you want to do and it's just not fair. and it's definitely not fair for my mom to go through my phone when literally I can't do anything anyways. I can't go out with friends, I can't bring friends over and I've been really depressed and emotional ever since Covid started. Sometimes I just wish my mom could learn to let go but even the littlest things matter to her because of a few wrong decisions. I just really think this app is the best thing in the world to parents that they forget what it's like when they're on their phones. And it's not like we can just easily take theirs and go through all of their personal stuff like they do to their own kids and I'll never understand why parents are always thinking that we're just something to control and it makes me think why do anything else when you have these people literally controling the things you do and my mom actually told me she can control me and it's really unfair to me and when my brothers growing up and he gets a phone he'll say the same exact thing. I really don't recommend this app because it's very stressing to adults' children..Raging_chimpkin1Version: 1.23.3

Bad app😐I’ve only had this app for a few days but it’s not hard to figure out that its bad. In all honesty I’m not that bad of a kid, but one night mom randomly told me and my sister to bring her our phones, and after she gave our phones back the app was sitting there, when I opened the app I read all the information and was immediately disappointed/mad with my mom, If the app was just location and etc I could understand, but the fact that it’s that and everything under the sun?! It has Location, Apps you use, how LONG you use the app, websites you go on, how long your on that website, WHO you text, WHO you call, they can block contacts, add screen time, power off the phone and everything, they can literally turn off the wifi. I did have some apps that I had to delete because I wasn’t supposed to have them & so did my sister, but I was mad/sad/disappointed because it’s ENTIRE invasion of our privacy, I feel like I can’t be free anymore, my mom has never done this or anything like it. I’m also sad about it because of my mental health at the moment, it’s not good at all and if I’m gonna keep it real I need (not want) certain things on my phone to actually keep me sane and alive, for example, that one friend I can talk to anything about, I lose talking to them while not at school. It hurts me because instead of talking to me and my sister, she put this app on our phones WITHOUT any sort of explanation, and honestly I don’t like it, I feel basically betrayed at the least of words. Like all that trust that has been built has been broken with a simple thought of just getting this app on our phones 👎🏽. Literally probably a whole idea off Facebook Frl..Period sidVersion: 1.24

BROKE MY PHONE. PARENTS READOkay this app is absolutely awful. I had a really old phone, an iphone 6+. BUT MY FRIENDS IPOD WORKED BETTER THAN MINE. Because of this app!!! It completely shut down my phone!! They couldn't get it fixed and me and my dad were at the Apple store or what ever for 2 HOURS. I couldn't call anyone, not even my dad or mom. All it said was a stupid 'welcome to verizon wireless' message. We deleted the app and I literally waited forever. Still wasn't fixed. Eventually was, but we did not risk it again. My phone couldn't even take software updates anymore. I was on I OS 12.5. Lord help me. I got the Iphone 11 Pro Max after that. Terrified me I thought i wasn't going to have me phone back. Also do not get the app if you want your child to love you back. No. They will hate you down inside. This app can see EVERYTHING. I get the trust issues. I get if you put this app on a 8 year old. But parents, putting this app on a tween or teen WILL RUIN THEIR LIVES. And yours. Can monitor every text, call, photo, post, video, FaceTime, Social media(which i get), screen time, contacts, downtime. GET A SCREEN TIME APP OKAY!!!!! BETTER THAN THIS GARBAGE. KIDS UNDERSTAND. BUT PARENTS DONT. EVERY REVIEW FROM A PARENT IT HOW IT DOESN'T WORK.!!!!YOU. DON'T. WANT. IT. TO. WORK!!! WE HAVE RIGHTS TO OURSELVES BUT WITH THIS APP, WE DON'T. DO NOT GET IT. IT WILL RUIN YOUR KIDS LIFE. WE NEED PRIVACY!!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡.IzabwellaVersion: 1.23.4

Ruined my relationship with my motherHonestly I’m only writing a review so this can get to one star faster and be removed from the App Store. So my mom tricked me into downloading this app and now uses it as a way of threatening me. She says if I don’t get my chores done then she’ll turn my phone off, which seems completely unnecessary to me because I keep up with them even without this. I asked her if it was worth jeopardizing our relationship, friendship, and my trust in her just to threaten me to get something done that I already do every day anyway, and she said yes. We were already having some issues before, but this app was the final nail in the coffin to ruin our relationship. I’ve also seen in other reviews that it doesn’t even work that well. I’m terrified to do anything wrong now because I’m afraid she’ll put restrictions on my phone that I won’t ever be able to get rid of. I would also like to add that I’m 18. I am a legal adult. There is absolutely no reason for my parents to be able to invade my privacy like this. I also checked the web history thing just to see the extent of what it will track, and it tracks websites you visit on incognito tabs. I’m not even kidding. As soon as this app is on your phone, your parent or guardian will very literally be able to see everything you do. So parents, if you want complete control over your child’s life, get this app. If you want your child to hide things from you and lie to you because they’ve lost all trust in you, get this app. And, most importantly, if you don’t value your relationship with your child, then go ahead and get this app :).Reaghan HamiltonVersion: 1.16.1

My phone broke bc of this….Okay hey, hello I am a 12 year old. Yes I get that my fam wanted to protect me. Thanks I guess. But the think is where they set it up they played around with it. Fine whatever, but THEN! one day I when to text my best friend and it said “Lulu💜💜 has blocked you”. Like girl what?!?! Then when I went got school I told her “ GIRLY WHY DID YOU BLOCK ME?” And she said “no Brooke I never blocked you “ And then she told me I have to go. I respected that. Like any kid would I was mad. 😡 my family basically ruined my entire friendship. I told my best friend that my family put the app on and she forgived me. But my thing is like why does this app ruin everything? Another thing it broke my phone!!!! It keep saying “iPhone storage full” but it wasn’t. And then my phone would lag like crazy! I am not pleased with this app. It’s useless,the only thing it does is hurt children. I am aware that something did happen before my fam put this o. My phone it’s good my trust wasn’t the best back then. I was heartbroken when FIRST IT RUINED MY FRIENDSHIP THEN BROKE MY PHONE! I am sorry I am being honest. I am normally sweet and kind but no. Luckily my fam took it off and yeah thank the gods! I am 12 now in the year 2023 and I am still insecure, sensitive, and sad constantly. It’s not funny. That’s my review. 1 start that’s all.BrookieplayzVersion: 1.53.6

Comment readersI used to have this one my phone for a while. Fought my parents enough until they got tired of fighting me over this app that they just let it go. Graduated a few years ago and I’m looking back at this, remembering how bad this app made things. There are people that need to get off their devices, I’m not here to argue that. But it really made me have trust issues with my parents. Can’t work on late night homework without asking for permission, can’t play a game on a no school day or even listen to music to sleep after 9-10pm, not being able to communicate with almost anyone until after school and only having and hour time frame where it worked during school (and lets hope it matched with the lunch time). Getting older, we want more privacy. More freedom and trust from the people that brought us up and this app does the exact opposite, and makes simple things more complicated than they need to be. For any that read this far, there’s how to get rid of it. Go to “general” in settings, go to “VPN” and it should say something for the “family configuration”. It will disable most, if not all the restrictions. Parents will be alerted though that they don’t have a connection to your phone anymore and can spam send you a message to reinstall it..Bug or Glitch?Version: 1.25

Goofy ahh appI’m going through some legal stuff and my mom had me download this app and right now. I would really need someone to talk to but this app has it so can block apps and she blocked all my social media so I cannot talk to my friends especially right now when I really need to talk to someone and I’m not really too concerned about the whole being able to track because my parents have Life360 but right now when I really need to talk to my friends and I only have some of them on Snapchat because they don’t have numbers in. They only have Snapchat and I can only talk to them on there. It’s not fair and blocking websites so I can only use my phone to text on iMessage. It’s not really fair and not being able to see my friends cause they’ll send me pictures of their outfits or something like that. It’s just really not a fair app and it doesn’t help with anything and I have notice. I just get mad at my mom now cause she has no trust in me and the legal stuff I’m going through is not even my fault and I’m a victim in something but she’s punishing me because I did the right thing. I would not recommend this app at all and parents don’t do this to your child. I know this is coming from a kid but realistically, it’s not helping them at all and do you honestly lose their trust?.Someone doesn’tlike this appVersion: 1.66.10

I hate this appI get my parents want to keep an eye on me but this is seriously getting out of control. I have given absolutely no reason for my parents to have these trust issues with me. Not only do they have this app to control me on they have My Circle too because apparently that’s how untrustworthy they think I am. My parents seem to think that this is how they should be parenting me and my siblings even though neither of us have given them a reason to feel untrustworthy of me. I honestly think I am a pretty responsible student, I get all A’s and one B every once and awhile on my report card, I don’t smoke or drink, I have never sneaked out, I do all my chores around the house, and I always help my mom out when she needs it. This app has caused me to ruin my relationship with my parents and have made us drift apart from eachother. I don’t think they understand how I feel during this pandemic I have been stuck with them for almost a year and our relationship only gets worse, I don’t even get to see my friends, online learning is new and awful. My parents continue to insult me saying that I shouldn’t be mad at them or that it’s stupid for me to keep a grudge against them but they have given me every reason to be mad at them, they don’t even trust me anymore which really hurts because they think I’m this horrible kid who needs to have some type of limit or restriction. At this point I have to fake being happy to my parents because if I don’t they insult me and get mad at me for holding a grudge. Overall this app has caused a toxic relationship between me and my parents and giving me many mental breakdowns and hours of crying..Wknhn bhhjjVersion: 1.18.5

PLEASE DO NOT GET THIS APPParents, I understand you want to make sure your kids are safe but this app is not the way to do it. 1. You can only text certain people. Now for most of you, this sounds like a good idea but it isn’t. Why? You’re cutting of your kids contact with other kids. I downloaded discord because all of my friends use it. When my dad found out, he yelled at me because I was “breaking his rule by using it.” Every single person I was friends with he had met in real life with a couple exceptions that were strictly about animal crossing trades and never went beyond that. 2. It invades your child’s privacy. Considering someone who downloaded this app (my father) has stated that he would take away my door and took the key to my door when I was going to change, this app also doesn’t respect privacy. The more privacy you take, the more your child is going to resent you. This app has also almost outed me to my homophobic and transphobic parents too. I remember a specific situation that happened between me and my father. I was in my room singing songs from a show (which is my comfort show) called horrible histories. My dad then yells at me to say who I was talking to and I said no one (i’m very self conscious about my voice so I wouldn’t admit that I was singing) he then took my phone and looked through it and saw the song. A few minutes later, it was blocked. I started crying because even though I could access it on any other device, it hurt so badly to see that he blocked one of the only things that makes me happy. I cried myself to sleep that night. And the one last thing I’m going to say is: when i almost killed myself, I had no one to reach out to because of this app..Saturn_356Version: 1.20

Don’t recommendSo currently I got in trouble for staying past my curfew. and she put this thing on my phone. my mom thinks that me being off social media will be helpful to my mental health. but in my opinion i really don’t think so. i talk to friends on there when i need help. i can’t even rant to my mom anymore cuz most the time she’s on her phone or working. i feel as if this app has disconnected my trust towards her and her trust towards me. now if y’all app makers could please stop making apps like these that’d be great. parents need to learn to be able to trust their children and let them come to you. doing all of this or taking things away because of a simple mistake really isn’t gonna help anything at all. from my perspective i personally would like my things back, i’ve done worse in school. i can’t even focus. i can’t even text people who i wanna text. the only person i mainly can talk to is my mom. and i personally don’t want to sometimes cuz i feel like she would judge me. i just wanna be able to be open towards her and i can’t even trust her because she’s taken my things away due to a mistake i’ve made. and yes i’ve learned from it quite a bit. anyway don’t get this app. tears mother to daughter relationships apart. or father to son, you get the memo..Ur local deadpoolVersion: 1.21.7

Gonna ruin my lifeSo I barley got this app yesterday, and I’m already mad about it. I’m only 12 and I get that my parents want to protect me but here’s the problem, it ruins peoples relationship with their parents, it makes trust issues involved too, it ruins a kids child hood and the worst part is no able to contact anyone to help you!!!, it’s literally the worst I will never get over this and it’s already ruining my parents and I relationship. It makes me think they don’t have any trust in me it makes me have anxiety knowing they will always be looking at me a certain way, it makes me have a mental break down but I have to keep it silent because I don’t want my parents seeing me like this. I also have some anger issues and the problem is I can’t delete the app if I wanted to it has a way so you can’t delete that app if it’s not approved, I hate it I wish my parents could actually have trust in me. I’ll admit I did have a problem with a yolo a few months ago people were being dirty to me I’m guessing it was a joke so I didn’t take it seriously It was disgusting and I did say it was but my parents REALLY had to take it up to heart. So I really hate this app and I hope for the kids or teenage parents see this so they can realize downloading an app to take away their children’s privacy isn’t the way to do it..Mannn idkkkkkVersion: 1.18

Trust issues?? absolutelyWe love controlling, hypocritical, and untrusting parents(she said sarcastically). My mom told me she would never try to control me not even a week before she downloaded this to my phone, and yet here we are. I just turned 16. I’ve never snuck out, done drugs, drank alcohol, had sex or even a boyfriend. I did watch an anime, my hero academia to be exact, last year (she hates anime with a passion for no reason) and that made her mad but i’ve done nothing to bring this on since then. I always tell her what im doing, where im going, who ill be with, etc. We do have different beliefs and opinions about things but that doesn’t really tie into this. I feel like she has no trust in me and is being overall way too controlling. She had fun as teenager. She went to parties, went out with her friends (which i can never do because i have a lot of LGBT+ friends and she is VERY homophobic), snuck out, and had the whole high school experience. I get nothing. She then continues to tell me i need to get out more. Parents please don’t do this to your high schoolers. I can understand middle schoolers but high schoolers?? really?? Most of us aren’t even trying to do anything bad. We just need and expect more freedom, trust, and privacy considering we’re going to be adults in a few years..HummingbirdGirl1212Version: 1.18

They don’t trust meOk tbh I know why they put it on there, yes I do know what was going on wasn’t good. I wasn’t getting my work done, I was on my phone, and I used stay up late. When my parents got this app I guess it was to monitor. But I feel like they’ve used this as something to hold on top off me. They’ve gotten so mad at me that I wasn’t doing my work that they put a restriction on my phone for all school hours. I feel like it’s crazy to think my phone is the problem when it’s not even the problem. Is the time I don’t have. There’s so much work during junior year that your like “ how am I supposed to get this done”. I’ve gotten so much angrier at them that everything they do puts me off. I HATE THIS APP, it’s ruining my relationship with them slowly but surely. Yes I am getting my work, and yes I was busy my whole first semester with extracurricular activities. Here’s a warning for parents the are thinking of getting this app, if your thinking about getting this app pls consider the child in this before you do, do you care that they probably won’t trust you again, do you care what they have to say about it. Think about the fact that you don’t trust them and talk to them about it. Also the phone isn’t always the problem sometimes the kid is going through something and just needs to be held and talked to and comforted cause I know I did. My parents aren’t Mean but are trying to figure this thing out. And the way they’re doing it is putting me in a pretty bad position on the mental health thing. No I don’t need the phone to live I just feel like they don’t trust me anymore…..like we don’t trust each other. So pls talk to them for the sake of your relationship later in life….pls..MAI_124859694922Version: 1.23

Don’t downloadYes I am a kid but that doesn’t change anything. My parents downloaded this app on my phone saying it’s “just for tracking” it’s not it’s so your parents can manage your WiFi and see what you do basically invade your privacy. It started off as my calls wouldn’t go through. Soon my phone would have these popups saying certain websites do not work and I would get like 5 at a time and it was very annoying. Then one day I got like a bunch and they wouldn’t go away so I somehow shut down my phone to fix it then I plugged it in and went to bed didn’t do anything else and my phone had been taken for days. I woke up and my phone was on recovery mode and I was so confused. My brothers phone had the same thing happen a week before so we pinned it down to the app since it made both of our phones glitch before. So then my brothers phone got fixed and it’s battery is completely broken it stays charged for a good 30 minutes to an hour. And my maximum compact went from an 88 to a 75 which means my phone battery drains easily. I then deleted the app and now I can’t make phone calls unless I FaceTime people which isn’t always possible. Please do not get this app and show your parents the reviews before you get it..Josie BrantonVersion: 1.99.11

Do not get this app or else I will actually come and delete it for youSo my mom has to put this on my phone since I got it when I was eight but when I first got my phone, I could literally do nothing except text my parents, but two years later I learned how to get apps even with this app controlling me but I still can’t play with my friends after 11 which I feel like is unfair because my mom is literally watching TV until four in the morning not to mention this is really broken. My mom’s trust I mean we’re arguing so much about this. and it doesn’t even let you text your friend after that time and you have to do a lot of things just to get your friends phone number in the first place. OK so I have an iPhone 8 and I want a new phone but I know I’m just gonna have to have all these controls on my phone and there’s really no point of getting a new one if I can’t do anything on it. PS the only reason why I got a phone when I was eight years old is because of coronavirus. and my mom didn’t want me to ride the bus with all the germs cause she’s overprotective, and she wanted us to walk to school so she gave us a phone just in case anything happened so you if you are a parent and you are reading this do not get this app it’s just causes trust issues. PS do not get mad about everything to your children. They’re literally like children. also, if you have three children don’t treat the middle child like poo poo because I am the middle child and literally everybody just argues with me even if my opinion is good, I may not be as smart as all the other children in my family, but I know that sometimes my opinions can be good my brother gets so much more but I still love my mom and dad. I just think it was a bad idea to get this app..Fjj oh dygkdvjhdcjitVersion: 1.53.27

The Other Reviews are complaining KidsThis app works great if you want to ban everything on the IPhone. Unless your kid is slightly techy. It’s incredible easy to get around some of the functions that it blocks. Honestly, for a device that is part of the most technologically locked down communities, it does a crapy job at locking down the phone. The next problem with app is the interface. Most users that partake of the use of this app are parents. Parents are known to be less technologically gifted as some. Now this is not true for all parents but it is an apt description of quite a few of them. The interface is not intuitive or easy to use if you are trying to be specific on what is blocked and what is allowed. In most cases you can not be delicate with exceptions. It’s ether all is blocked or none is blocked. Then when you want to specifically allow a website that was randomly blocked for God knows why, you have to spend 25 minutes trying to figure it out. This could be an intuitive app for parents to protect there children from inappropriate content and to much screen time, but it isn’t. There are much better apps out there than this one for that. This is my experience with this app. Of corse your mileage will vary. Good day..TheBeestyBoyVersion: 1.20

Worst app i have ever downloaded.This app makes it seem like it's for safety purposes and my parents lied to me about what it does and they control everything i do and it's not even my own phone anymore. this app tore me apart and please don't use this app with your kids unless you want to completely lose their trust and if you want them to never talk to you again after they leave your house because they won't. this app has made me self harm myself at one point in my life. this app had made me stay up till 5 in the morning crying because i want to leave my house. please under any circumstances don't download this app. it's not for safety purposes. it just makes everything worse. nobody is coming out of their rooms in my house. nobody is talking to each other. this app has made it feel like i cant even do anything on my phone anymore without feeling like i'm being stalked. this is even worse than life360. please never download this app. no matter how much a bad thing your child did to deserve this, give them a second chance. maybe even a third or fourth chance. just NEVER consider getting this app. your kids will hate you. if you really love and trust and care for your kids, you will never get this app..Toast the turtle aratrikaVersion: 1.23.3

I hate this appThis app is the worst thing to ever be created in existence. why would you make this to torture kids. your sales are gonna be 📉📉📉once more parents start using this with their kids. for example my parents made me get this and i hate it and it’s ruined my life. i can never talk to my friends and sometimes they get mad at me when i don’t respond and in fact some of my friends are 👩🏼🔫 and when they wanna talk and i don’t respond it makes the chances even higher of them doing some irreversible. i don’t think you want $uic1de on your back, do you? not to mention its ruining my social life and i never know what’s going on. i look dumb when my friends and classmates are talking ab stuff and i have no clue. ALSO when i’m out with friends and my restrictions are on my messages won’t go through to me and i can’t send any and when i’m out i have to be able to contact my own parents at all times. what if i’m being chased by an axe murderer or a creepy old man (no offense if an old man made this app) is ab to r4pe me then what!? huh?! bc i can’t contact anyone and now not only do you have $uic1de but now r4pe. that’s a double whammy. just sayin. anyways as i was saying you should get rid of this app right away! have a nice day!😃.Maci May MayVersion: 1.19

Not the bestOk though this can help you block inappropriate web sites and make sure your child is safe on the road it definitely doesn’t help a lot. It displays that you distrust your child, and that will definitely upset them. Also most of these apps are useless. For example one time I was at school and couldn’t find my brother so I was gonna text my friends and my mom but my time was blocked and I couldn’t find him. I found eventually but I would have been easier just to not have this app and be able to text people during school. Just what if there was a real emergency and your child was to text that they were ok but you limited their time? Also you can just track you child on different apps so most of the features are useless. The blocking websites is good but also some parents ( including mine) would block the most common apps saying they were “inappropriate.” So just don’t get it. It will upset your kids and make them more rebellious and just nothing good. One last thing, kids will always find away behind child safety things like app so it’s just gonna be you and your kid fighting constantly and never getting along. Not the best..TstiaeusuxtxovydtVersion: 1.22

0/10I agree with all the other negative reviews. Whoever made this up must’ve had an insane amount of trust issues. Not only had it ruined the relationship between me and my parents, but my brothers included. Our whole family fell apart Becuase of this app. Even though parents may have the right intentions, there is no good way to tell ur kids that u will start tracking them, controlling their data, and turning off their phones whenever it’s convenient. When u gave ur kids a phone, u gifted it to them, u may pay the phone bills every month, but ur TRUSTING ur kid to make the right decisions. U no longer should have to control their phone. It shows lack of trust and in result ur kids will begin to think that they can no longer trust u, turn to u, and count on u. Also it’s not really effective. Yes we’re kids/teenagers, but parents underestimate how smart we are. My brothers and I found out how to “hack” the app and went 3 months until our parents found out there was a way to override their control. In result they got rid of the app and just like that our family bond started to build again. If u think controlling ur kids personal phone is worth ruining ur relationship then by all means download this app. If u value and cherish the bond u share with ur kid then don’t even try this..The one and only app criticVersion: 1.10.1

This app ruined everythingThe first time my parents mentioned the app is so they could track me, and I was chill about it, until they made it to be the thing I hate! I know why they did this but I’m not the kid I was, I can sometimes misbehave but that’s what kids do. They can also close my messages for different people. What if I need to talk to a friend ,but this dumb thing that says “You can’t talk to this person”, it makes me sick! Now, I can’t even get an app I want because “They can’t trust me.” As well as I’m not close to my parents anymore because of this app it also got severe anger issues. I put more of an attitude down on others than before. Again I understand why they did it, but I have been trying to limit myself on my phone. One time I asked for an app and they said NO, I’m about to snap at this point how am I supposed to be kind if they are controlling MY phone!!! They got me a phone for a reason so let me have privacy on it. If you are reading this, and if you are a parent I think you should talk to your kids instead of doing this or you might make a BIG mistake trust me on this one. (If I have spelling mistakes or punctuation errors I’m only 11.).Not worth it peopleVersion: 1.25

Crap AppIf I could rate this Zero I would! To all those parents who say it’s great and it’s just kids and teens complaining I can tell you that they obviously know more than you!! Short Story: At my school everyone had a phone it was 5th grade and they were really rude to me being all like “What’s your phone number.. oh WAIT you don’t have one” OR “When will you EVER get a phone!” They were RUDE but finally when I was going into 6th grade I got one I was happy with what I got but then I got this app you have no control whatsoever it takes me 10 minutes to install ONE app and it takes forever to have it approved! It can ruin relationships And makes kids feel they can’t be trusted. And don’t even get me started on SCREEN TIME!!! I’m only allowed to have 10 yes 10 contacts. And my parents are all like “well it’s not like you will need more!” Just to get it straight I have 4 grandparents 10 aunts 8 uncles 8+blood cousins 2 boy friends ( not dating just friends) 4 girl friends (just friends) 1 brother 2 parents...need I go on.... that’s about 36 people plus I have more than what I said I’m just estimating... And to all of you like well you don’t need all of them in your contacts BUT 39 people 39! ANYWAY I could go ON but I won’t this review has gotten too long so I’ll save you time..NorthernMoonVersion: 1.13

Garbage app. Absolutely horribleOk so my parents made me get this trash app this morning because they want to track my activity and location. They said that they trust me but then they do this. This app is the most annoying thing ever. It completely defeats the purpose of having a phone and I’m a mature person, and my parents know that, but now they can constantly track my activity and my location and they won’t leave me alone. It’s annoying as heck and now they can limit TEXTING AND CALLING. The main thing I do on my phone. I talk to my friends every single day for hours and now they have to take that away for no reason. If they trust me on the internet why would they make me get this garbage app? Whoever invented this app, WHY? It’s so incredibly annoying and I can’t do anything. Im not 9 years old or however old they think I am. I am 100% mature and careful enough to not have this app, yet here we are. I can’t stand it and they’re so overly careful about EVERYTHING. Just let me live my life without being helicoptered all the time! And they can also limit any app they want, block any app they want, and put a time limit on my phone. It completely defeats the purpose of even having one..GreyhoubdVersion: 1.23.4

This App is the worst thing to happenWhen the people first created, they sat their in their chairs wondering, “Soooo... how can we find ways to make a child’s life so horrible, so they can’t enjoy life.” I’m a 16, almost 17 year old, and have had this for a while. I can’t do anything anymore, I can’t do the crazy things that any normal teenage wants to do. In my own opinion, I just think this is beyond hypocritical, because parents have done the same stupid things that we have and are going to do. They should expect it. Yeah, they should punish kids for sneak out really late, or going somewhere that they weren’t supposed to go, but what are they going to do, ground you for the rest of your life? With me, and possible so many others, this app will prevent people from ever having a social life. Parents don’t want you getting food late at night? No more going to friends house to spend the night. Friends having a party, but your parents think something bad might happen? No more parties for you. This app slowly tears a gap in the child’s social life, which can to depression. It’s an amazing thing really, seeing how a parent is capable doing things like this to their child. SO WHATEVER TOU DO, DONT DOWNLOAD THIS APP. IF YOU HAVE NO CONTROL AND HAVE IT ANYWAY, FIND WAYS AROUND THE SYSTEM..ChentyboiVersion: 1.11

Ruining my WHOLE childhood!!!!I am only 12 about to turn 13 and this app has completely destroyed me. My mom has so much control over my private life it's not even funny!! She controls everything I do, but I can't do the same to her. Just because she's the adult doesn't mean she should be able to over power me that much. I am not aloud to have any apps that are 12+ or higher without any permission because this app is making parents not believe there children more and more everyday. And for me to like this app anytime soon it needs to give children a little more privacy, like: what you want to share with your parents, and parents should choose a couple of things for them to see IF there are trust issues. I think parents need to start trusting there kids more and not just giving them one time to do something wrong. Parents should never control there child's life like this app is letting them do. Children need more freedom than this. This app is also why so many parents and there child/children don't have strong relationships. If parents would realize that if they stop controlling us we'll stop testing them as much. Don't get this app unless you want to ruin relationships!!!.NhrdvhhfdVersion: 1.23.4

View from a family memberI used to have this app and my step mom was the one who downloaded it, but my mom said that i didn’t need to have it. but my step sister still has the app, and i see a TOTAL change in her. her mom used to send her to a therapist because she thought she had depression and her mom thought she needed someone to talk to. my step sister has brought it up many times that late at night when she cries, she doesn’t have anyone to talk to, and her mom still said no to deleting the app. my step sister even made a whole slideshow with VALID reasons on why she should be able to delete the app and she STILL doesn’t let her delete it, because this app creates a wall around the parent thinking that they can control their kids’ life. this app ruins relationships and causes actual mental illnesses. i’ve seen many reviews about anxiety, depression, and more. what do parents not see about that? that controlling their kids’ entire teenage years makes them a good parent. but it doesn’t. it makes your child feel like their always hovering over you, not being trusted, and makes them feel so overpowered by you. parents, if you care about the relationship with your child, please just trust them and not download this app..SodaPopJ101Version: 1.15

Not goodDear parents, we want to feel trusted and independent as we go into our teen years. When you give us a phone, you trust us to do the right thing, which is why you wait for so long. Then, you put this app on our phone making us feel like you don’t trust us to do the right thing. We feel like we are being watched all the time (which we are) and that we can’t do anything right. It makes us feel like we are bad kids, when really we just want to explore the world. How do you expect us to go into the real world not knowing anything because of the limits this app gives us. We need to explore the internet, not just be limited to to other things that will not be as beneficial. When my parents installed this app on my phone, it felt as though I couldn’t do anything whatsoever. I feel untrusted and like I’m a bad person, when really I take classes that are two years ahead of my grade level and end up getting an A in them. It makes no sense why parents feel the need to watch everything their teen does when really the teen does nothing wrong. Sorry this was so long but in conclusion, I feel untrusted and like I’m missing things that other children are not, the internet. Sincerely, a very sad child.A sad child from this appVersion: 1.15

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