I’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.

I 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.

why 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.

The 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.