This app is great for managing and moderating all of my children's game time. Rather than having to constantly watch the clock to see how long they have been playing, on top of them constantly bugging their mom and I to play, I am able to set specific times they're allowed to play and for how long. Now that the app will moderate their time for me by forcing them off after two hours, etc. I can just let them get on the Xbox whenever they want and know that they won't be on ALL day. Yep only complaint I have is that when you add extra time, it doesn't seem to add the time correctly for some reason. It seems like sometimes it doesn't add whatever time they still had left to the extra time that I added. It just simply gives them an hour etc. Otherwise, this app is amazing and my wife and I use it regularly now.

i've ALWAYS had issues with microsoft (which is crazy because i only use it to play minecraft). but my account is 18+ (im an adult) AND i have xbox gold/live or whatever it is to enable multiplayer (which is crazy you have to do to begin with). However almost EVERY time i try to play minecraft with my friends it tells me that "due to my account settings multiplayer is not enabled". ive gone back and changed that SO many times but this time is different. they want me to download THIS app so i can enable minecraft multiplayer. However, this app is for FAMILIES and people with kids. So, it wont even let me do that because it considers MY Microsoft account as the "management" for OTHER microsoft accounts. so i cant even enable minecraft because it doesnt give me the option unless i add other peoples accounts to my group. Yes, i talked to their Support Virtual Agent on their website and it was EXTREMELY unhelpful. i hope microsoft can get themselves together because there are CONSTANT issues with their servers, logging in, changing peoples account settings without said person even knowing, and god knows what else that i havent personally experienced. if i could give this entire company ZERO stars, i would. they overcomplicate everything so we have to download their apps and pay for the most basic aspects of gaming like multiplayer.

The Xbox very naïvely tracks time, it kept tracking time at the kid was "playing" despite not being in a game, which is ridiculous and unhelpful. I'm not worried about time the kid is futzing around in the UI, just game time.The kid put the Xbox to sleep while staying signed in took a shower and then came back and had no time left. What is the point of a timer that continues when the machine isn't even on, or when the kids not playing. They should be able to leave it on the home screen or sleep the device and keep their time, otherwise it's completely useless.And I know that the Xbox knows how long they're playing the game, because it counted up exactly what they were doing in each app, which was still less than the total time allotted, but they ran out of time anyways, and I had to give them more time on the app. This is utterly terrible, and apparently a very old issue on Reddit.

Setting are clumsy and terrible to navigate. If for some reason a game is filtered on the Xbox by the settings it won’t tell you what filter is holding back the settings it tells you just what general area of the app it is in, like go to “privacy and online settings to allow” but without telling you which privacy setting is the issue. Kind of ridiculous if you ask me. Not everything is manageable from the app either.. a lot of it needs to be brought up from a browser which defeats the purpose. Now I’m not tech genius but I do have a degree in computer networking and I still struggled with this app at times. It should honestly be a really simple process and able to filter content by game; like if I want to let my kids play among us but not GTA, a pop up on the phone app when the game is attempted to be opened on the Xbox saying: “grant all permissions, custom permissions or deny for (insert game)” would make this 1000 times easier. Will update rating when app is better but knowing Microsoft menus… I don’t think that’s going to happen.