Bark Watch 10/10
I highly recommend the bark watch for your child. 10/10
DON'T USE THE APP IF YOU WANT YOU KID TO TRUST YOU
This app honestly made my kid not want to share anything with me, she said that it makes her feel like she’s being stalked. Do not recommend.
Confusing
Not real clear on what to do and how to make sure you get what you want in monitoring
Waste of time
Not really Barks fault but it is basically a useless app when used with IOS. It can’t do anything more than Apple parental control does on its own. Wish Bark had disclosed that up front before I went through the (painful) set up process and expense. What a waste of time.
I hate this app
Bro this app is useless. It invades your privacy 24/7 and won’t let you even listen to music in peace. A song will get flagged for sexual content as if I’m going to have sex with a full grown man after I listen to it. “Don’t worry, we don’t invade your privacy. We were teenagers too!” That was the biggest lie I have ever been told when I was setting that stupid app up. How am I supposed to do that when my screen is being monitored all the time? And don’t even hit me with the “I understand how you feel”. You clearly don’t. Kids online say that this app is the reason why they don’t trust their parents or get along with them. Now I understand why this app is called “bark”. It’s annoying, like a dog barking nonstop.
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Worthless
This app and platform are both absolute garbage. I wanted to use this primarily to monitor social media in text messages and this app does not monitor any social media platforms on iOS except YouTube. Are they transparent about that? No. So you spend your money only to find out that you can’t monitor on iOS. It takes a good two hours to update. And it’s so archaic. I do not recommend this to anyone. You are better off just giving your kids full reign of their phones and Internet than using this. It’s worthless. I wish there was recourse for a refund. I will be filing a complaint with the BBB because they are scamming people who are looking to protect their children. Save your money .
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Not plug and play
iPhone users. We have to continually plug in our child’s phone, multiple times a week for “iOS troubleshooting”, for to monitor and provide us what we thought it would. It is an extreme hassle to do this every couple of days to get an analysis complete.
When it actually stays connected, the notifications are good.
We will not renew.
When it actually stays connected, the notifications are good.
We will not renew.
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I don't like it
Bc I get left out of stuff bc I cant have snap chat and tick tock so don't download
worst app
calls everyone’s parents about something that they say and gets them in trouble can’t even talk to any of my friends no more
Useless for Apple users
I got this to monitor what my niece is doing on the phone I got her. She’s had trouble in the past talking to creepers so I was hoping this would help. I wish I would have done more research and not wasted my money paying for this and the sync for a year 🤦🏻♀️. The majority of apps cannot be monitored on an iPhone so the app is decoration and not much else. Save your money! And the company refuses refunds cause they know the product is trash!!
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YOU NEED TO PAY??? HORRIBLE
You need to pay to take care of your kids? Cmon this is stupid.
Absolute piece of trash
If you’re using iOS, don’t buy this program it is $150 of wasted trash
It barely connects, and when it does, it likely loses itself often
You still had a four adult conversation with another person and not one of those words came up not even one time.
It barely connects, and when it does, it likely loses itself often
You still had a four adult conversation with another person and not one of those words came up not even one time.
Needs mass delete buttons
The controls are very sensitive, even if I adjust the controls. Sometimes I receive multiple alerts bc of 1 text thread. There needs to be a better way to MASS delete old notifications and mute a conversation for the day (not permanently)
I see the benefits, but most days it’s more effort to deal with the app than it’s worth.
I see the benefits, but most days it’s more effort to deal with the app than it’s worth.
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Not user friendly
This is difficult to use and if you need help with your account or anything else, it is impossible to talk to a human.
Not great experience
I had bark for a year and once the whole passcode thing started with apple I left bc it was impossible to work around. Recently ordered bark sync and spent hours trying to figure out why it wouldn’t connect and along with support they couldn’t tell me. So I went back to using the computer. Set both phones up identical yet one phone is not allowing apps to work properly. I’m done with a service that causes more headache then reassurance. I will go back to screen time and manually checking phones.
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Currently having problem. Overall it's great.
Lately I have to delete the app and redownload it in order to open it. I have an iphone17 with IOS 26.5.1
Not user friendly
Bark is really hard to manage because it keeps restricting my child from doing literally anything and then I have to go hunt and see what the individual problem is.
Useless for Apple users
I got this to monitor what my niece is doing on the phone I got her. She’s had trouble in the past talking to creepers so I was hoping this would help. I wish I would have done more research and not wasted my money paying for this and the sync for a year 🤦🏻♀️. The majority of apps cannot be monitored on an iPhone so the app is decoration and not much else. Save your money! And the company refuses refunds cause they know the product is trash!!
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It broke my phone
It broke my phone, we got a whole new one and it turned out we just had to delete the app. phones are expensive
Installation Pains
Everything related to installing this app and getting it to work has been a pain in the @ss. Once we did the initial setup, it’s supposed to monitor over WiFi on the home network. That never worked so you had to plug it into the computer and wait for it to manually sync there instead.. We got tired of that and inconvenience of not being the place where we charge phones, so caved and bought the Bark sync for an additional $49 annual subscription. Now as I’m trying to set up the bark sync it’s stuck on the pairing screen and won’t get past it despite entering in the right passcode. I’m so annoyed. Been trying for 45 minutes.
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