AT&T Secure Family® parent app App Reviews

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It is great app when it works. I have purchased the app as it is very useful. I mean it is useful when it works. Unfortunately it disconnects in hours to days after you set up or reconnect and you have to through process again on all phones. I have spent months on phone with customer service with multiple IT reps from ATT including their higher ups, but useless. Sometimes they even forget about you and when I have called back I was told my issue was resolved when it wasn’t. I will give it one more chance and stop subscribing.

Fantastic Update. The latest update has been a welcomed surprise. My kids previously was able to delete the app and circumvent the intended purpose. After this last update they are no longer able to do this. This update has other new features to help reduce the friction of implementing parental controls. Overall it seems to be performing much better. Thank you for releasing such a fantastic update!

Trash. This app is trash. Bring back smart limits!! At least that allowed you to block numbers, set an allowed list (for family), call/text time limits. This new app that replaced it has absolutely NOTHING for calls. Nada. Zilch. The GPS locater is never right. It finds the nearest cell tower and says your kid is there, which is usually off in some abandoned field, forest, river, or lake. INSTAPANIC! Yay! 🙄 These creators are underestimating the genius of today’s youth. They know how to disable it. They know how to switch VPNs. They know every trick and loophole to work it the way they want. Please fix this trash. AND BRING BACK SMART LIMITS SO THAT WE CAN BLOCK PHONE NUMBERS. Also, please don’t respond with your generic “we’re sorry (lies) contact us with more details..” reply because I’ve already been round and round that circus since the moment smart limits was killed, ya’ll cant fix because it’s clear the creators dont have kids or teens... Please put some parents on your testing team!

Doesn’t work as promised. I’ve been using this app to help protect my 13 year old son from context that he’s not mature enough to look at as well as going on questionable websites, etc. I even added a website that I specifically did not want him to go on and it didn’t stop him from doing any of that. I supposedly blocked games that I didn’t want him playing and he still was able to get right on those games as well with no problem. I really don’t know why I was paying money to use this app when it didn’t stop him from anything. The only thing it is good for is locating my son’s phone so I pretty much knew where he was, but that’s all. I’m not happy with this app.

Problematic and Underwhelming experience. Issues I had are as follows: 1. It keeps preventing my child from receiving and sending texts!!! (Main reason I cancelled) 2. Location doesn’t always update and when it does it is not always accurate!!! (We tested with my wife when she was with my child.) 3. Why can my child uninstall this app from their phone? 4. You don’t see their texts. I appreciate the effort and idea of ATT trying to make our kids safer but I’m going to look elsewhere for a better app until this one gets fixed. From: IT Manager Dad

Stuck in a loop. There was an error when I signed up. Now I’m stuck in a loop of hitting Continue and then telling me I’m already subscribed and then hitting continue and telling me I’m already subscribed and so on. One time I opened it last night it let me move on and setup filters and I thought everything was good. This morning when I get in to the app, I’m stuck in that loop again. Please help! Who can I contact?

Need to Require a Passcode. It’s good in theory and I am still trying to figure this App out but after 30 minutes on my daughter’s phone she was able to delete the app and get her phone back. Anyone can open the App because it doesn’t require a passcode. I have FaceID selected but it still lets anyone open the app. My kids can go undo everything I set up. Can you please require a passcode to get into the App and fix the FaceID? You have all the systems/data right there. I am not sure why you can’t allow parents the ability to easily turn on and off features. I really want this to work. I really need this to work!!!

Very upset. I accidentally chose the wrong number to be assigned as the primary parent but the app won’t allow me to change it. I contacted customer service and was advised to cancel the app subscription and to wait an hour for the app to reset the information. Well I did all of that. And here it is two hours later, I try to start the process all over and the app STILL will not allow me to change the primary parent to my ACTUAL number. This is ridiculous and VERY frustrating. It shouldn’t be this difficult. I wasted all this time trying to change this and to no avail, another dead end with AT&T. Smh!

Best Parenting App Hands Down. I have five kids and with the new updates, this app is exactly what I need to be on top of things and keep healthy screen habits for my children and filter all the bad stuff. The tracking is perfect for knowing when the kids arrive home from bus before I get off work. All the features this brings to all devices is monumental for parents. Life360 sells data and doesn’t cater to families or devices. The integration between devices and parent/child devices is magic. Kudos to ATT for being the leader in family safety. Might the most important app you ever download. I recommend at least trying the trial to see how in control you feel as parent knowing boundaries can be set for electronic devices and content. Mom approved!

Horrible. Doesn’t work. Save your money.. What a garbage application. The precious safe family app limited my kids data usage per day and kept them from going over a data cap. This application never works. I restrict their usage and the app just stops working. For days at a time. I get text messages saying it has stopped pairing and i have to re-pair it. And then at the end of the day it stops pairing again. My data use went from controlled and always under our cap to AVERAGING 10% over our cap. The restrictions on time never mattered. The restrictions on content never mattered. This appears to be an app designed to take $8/mo from you and make you go to a higher data plan as well. 0 stars.

They should not have apps like this aloud. I am under my wife’s phone service. Without me knowing my wife put the app in my phone that iTunes has available for at&t and took the app and hidden it of my front screen so I couldn’t see it at all and controlled my whole phone by blocking my web activate and blocking my calls that were coming in and honestly took over my whole phone and I had no clue she was controlling everything on it plus took my credit card information and used it and bought things in my name. So if you are not aware of the app on your phone you are in trouble when someone can control your life this app and apps like this that a phone company sells should be banned all the way around.

Parents’ dream!. This is the moment parents have been waiting for. With this app, parents have complete control over their children’s digital lives and physical safety. This app gives you control over when your child uses the Internet, for how long, which apps, and websites your child has access to, where your child physically is, and much more. The app has functioned beautifully for myself and friends and family, and I expect that it will for you too. Both parents can now control settings for their children, children can send SOS alerts, and Children cannot delete the companion app. And they don’t sell your data like life360 :) This is powerful stuff.

Horrible App / Horrific ATT customer Service. Installed this app to monitor a child! Put in the wrong number for the “owner” of the account. App would NOT LET ME CHANGE account owner after the mistake. Called ATT customer support. After spending 1 hour they stated I had to cancel the subscription through Apple. Telephoned Apple customer service, they stated it does not show up under “paid” subscriptions so therefore nothing they can do! ATT still says it doesn’t show up on their system, even though it’s has a 30 day trial, before billing! The “free” trial WILL NOT LET YOU CANCEL IT. But I bet when the trial period is up I GET BILLED! ATT creates these “paid for solutions” and then CANNOT HELP remedy the problem. Have been a customer for 30 years, but ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Time to LOOK for a new carrier. Be fore warned!

Well designed app - with flaws. I have two big issues with the app: 1) you can limit screen time by time slots, but not by total hours/day. I need both. Want to lock access during school hours, but then let’s say limit internet/game access to one hour on school days, and maybe three hours on weekend days. Can’t do that. 2) when I “pause” internet from the parent app it does not consistently shut down internet on my kid’s phone. Right now she is supposed to be paused but is playing away on Roblox no problem. Yesterday pause worked no problem.

Unsure of it.... The app looks nice and once it’s all set up I like the features. However, I get texts multiple times a day saying that one or the other kids phones app has stopped working. Then 30 min later another text saying that it’s working again. This happens every day. It’s driving me crazy!! I blocked the alerts for the texts. I don’t get it, because I check the phones and they are fine. Hopefully glitches get fixed or I may cancel it. There’s gotta be a better one than that annoyance.

Secure Family. AT&T secure family is the best family safety app that I have tried. Much better than Verizon Secure family which I used to have. From tracking, able to limit my children’s online time, and the new updated app will not allow my children to delete their information so I can always track them. And unlike Life360, they do not sell my children’s data. Thank you AT&T

Best yet but. I have tried almost every app out there and this one is the best so far but it would be better if it was in bedded into the phone itself especially since it is an AT&T product. Additionally, the face ID and password functions don’t work if my team wanted to login and change the settings they were just have to grab my phone. Obviously that’s also a parenting issue but it would be a nice to have.

Infancy stage. This app is probably the best we have found, however we are kidding ourselves when we think our children won’t use a separate VPN or other hidden social media on the web, we simply can’t keep up. That is where it is important that if you are willing to install this on your child’s. The app really needs to have a time limit for the screen time as well as the times of day to use. I think we all would be shocked to see that there is literally hours of screen time that once was used to daydream, read books, or play soccer. Screen time is important and needs a limit just like we had when young on amount of TV time. If possible, somehow limiting APP installation without our approval would also work well. If the user could not install any apps without first approval, it may help. The last thing would be to state “Until this program can be embedded into the actual AT&T phone or system, our kids will always be able to figure out a work around”. It is imperative you also talk with your kids to make this work. There still needs to be a lot of trust. Your trust in your child is still a better deterrent than this program at this time.

Teen can override time limit. This app has great features but my teen can override the time limit. When the secure family connection notice comes up on his phone, he presses it many times in succession very quickly. That somehow disables the connection and he can keep using his phone. I can see that he did it, after the fact, because I’ll get a text that his phone isn’t connected. It would be great to have this fixed so there is no way a family member can override the connection.

Parents on AT&T are in for a treat. just downloaded this app and took advantage of the free 30 day trial. will definitely continue and pay the $7.99 fee after the free trial is over. I have been struggling to find a good app that can help set boundaries for my kids. This app makes it easy to do that. the block internet feature is a godsend. I also really like the location features and the pop up alerts. Excited to use this for the new school year.

defect in the app. You have to download the application on all the phones and if the children want to, they delete the app and that is a big problem because then you cannot locate them. The previous version did not need to download the app on the children's phones. It automatically appeared on the map where they were. our children's phones and now they don't, because if the children want to delete or stop the app on their phone, I am very upset the previous version was better in that I hope they can add that again, let me know because I already canceled the subscription .

Started out Great. Started out great! However, recently found that when checking location it would place my child in places not possible for her to travel to. So much so that even when checking in a 5 minute time span it showed her in four completely different locations... MILES away from each other. Unless she could teleport herself, this is not possible. When this first started happening with the app I panicked because I actually thought she was in a location FAR away. It wasn’t until I kept checking and double checking that this strange glitch became apparent. Discontinued app so it would no longer cause me PANIC when checking on my child!

Improves Communication in Our Family. This app is great for opening up conversations about what my children are doing in their digital life as well as physical life. I remember being a teenager and not wanting my parents to know exactly what I am doing at all times. There are too many temptations these days for kids. TikTok is like crack. So we can limit screen time and shut off at night without parental intervention. There is even a countdown before internet is shut down. Kids need sleep!! Reports on daily or weekly basis , I prefer weekly. I can see everywhere my kids go. I don’t give them opportunities to lie cause they know zi know, and we are not punitive so we discuss stuff. Alerts so they don’t have to call my wife when they reach their destination. Would be great if it monitored how fast they are driving but still the app gives us peace of mind. So far kids are mostly fine with it. We work together to set parameters, they like doing things other than their phone, just need a push sometimes. The Secure Family helps our growing family!

Inaccurate location and constantly needs re-pairing. Update - I have no clue how this app have 4 stars, when all the reviews are negative and the positive ones are from 3 years ago. This app consistently puts my kids in the wood (where people drink and party), when they are over a mile away at a friends house. This is unacceptable. No point in using this if it’s not even close to accurate. It’s been a year with no fix. I live in a fairly decent sized city (not too large, not too small), so if the gps isn’t accurate here then it won’t be anywhere. Before grounding your teenager, check an alternate app like Life360 to see their location. This app has had my kids in horrific inner city neighborhoods, when I fact they were just right down the road (verified by going there). This is THE WORST app. Unfortunately AT&T had an app that worked moderately well, and shut that down for this app that has less functionality, is extremely inaccurate, stops working and you have to “repair it to your kids phone” weekly your kids can delete it, your kids will turn the app off (mine figured out quickly how to turn off VPN functionality that’s needed to make it work), etc etc.. I want a refund!

App no longer works after update. If I could give a 0 rating I would 😞 I’ve been so happy with this app for the last years but update has caused app to no longer work. I can only see my own location in real time (which I don’t need) and cannot see any of my family especially my minor child which is the reason I’ve had the app in the first place. I updated app on all devices, removed profiles and added them again and called AT&T and nothing-no way to add devices. Rep suggested I go into a store for help (which is an inconvenience), but I am not sure what else they can do that I haven’t already tried 🤷🏻‍♀️ maybe it’s time to cancel my subscription 😞

Hacked. Hacked by criminal empire of drug traffickers who have been hacking into whatever device I have for over 6 years. Salvatore Miranti, Gaige Scott Holdaway, Robert Eugene Wear, Clayton Jay Pruitt plus the rest of the gang of professional crooks with ties to local, county and state government officials and the ability to pay off in drugs. Every call is recorded, keylogger, and stalked in and out of the house. I pay for extra security and get the same as if I were still paying for straight talk, who had no clue that my SIM had been copied and my phone was cloned. I expected much better from this company than just to be hacked STILL from the same people. I constantly have told you who they are, where they are, and what is happening as 25+ years in federal prison for hacking isn’t long enough—but I guess they have enough cash or the drugs to pay even AT&T corporation off. Thanks again for compromising my communication and being able to have an inkling of safety or support in a professional phone company.

How to use the app after the update without companion apps. Hello, i'm the legacy user for the ATT secure family app. The latest update forces me to install companion apps. In your responses to other users you state that legacy users can continue to use the app without the companion apps. Pls explain how to do it. Thanks You replied that “ Legacy customers who do not use the Companion app for network location tracking can continue to network locate after the update w/o a Companion app.” The above reply appears to be incorrect. There is no way to track the phones without the companion app. Pls update your reply or explain how to track without the companion app after the update. Thnx.

Need better VPN blocking. I love the ability I have with this app to block adult content and such from my child’s phone. However all of the teenagers around us have figured out that if they download a vpn app and use the other vpn they can bypass all of the controls we have set up on this app. That makes the app useless. Please add coding that requires a password before the user is able to switch to another vpn, like the app has when you try to disable it. If not, there is no need in me keeping the app.

Ugh. It’s is absolutely ridiculous how many things run in the background of this app. Every domaine, ad and who knows what, runs all day long. Every minute!!Its impossible to see everything my child is visiting with so many unknown things running in the background. You have to go through everything. And it can be hours worth of stuff. From 8am when I turn the internet back on till 10pm when it goes off! Att, you really need to fix this issue. Paying $7.99 a month for this is outrageous!

No pin on child’s phone. When I first discovered this app I was elated that we had finally found an app that would be able to control our kids phones and monitor them and their activity. Come to find out, your child doesn’t have to enter a pin in order to open the app and make changes. What a horrible oversight. Your child can go in and make changes and turn off the app so that you can’t see where they’re going or what they’re doing. They also have the ability to turn off the VPN without your knowledge. How this app is even being marketed right now is beyond me whoever dreamed up this app failed miserably in the most basic of protection. And the fact that they charge you a monthly fee for this inept app is laughable. If they fix that mistake it could be a great app. Otherwise it’s a waste of money.

Disappointed. I’m very disappointed in this app. I wanted this app so I would be able to to keep an eye on call/message history for my kids. The time limits option would be a bonus. So I downloaded the app & set it up on my daughter’s iPad to test it out before adding it to my son’s phone. Sadly, it’s not what I thought it would be. I had high hopes this would be the AT&T version of Verizon Smart Family. But it’s missing the most important feature Monitor Usage & Activity regarding calls & texts. I feel like this app is pretty much only good for location services & maybe internet/data time limits. I’ve checked the History section a few times after visiting websites & sending text/iMessages & there is a long delay before any information pops up. I’m going to give it a week & see if it grows on me but I having a feeling I’ll be deleting it & looking for something else.

Go figure. What if i told you this wasnt a real app nor was this the iPhone App Store? What if i told you it was either- depending on your device, a hacked version of the Apple WatchOS system or the MacOS system. If youre seeing this while trying to download an app on your iPhone or iPad Im quite sorry, but youve probably had your identity stolen… for a long time. This is specific to this app and AT&T because your prepaid cell service is so unsecure you dont even have a single dedicated fraud prevention staff member willing to help me fix all this stuff… I should move to post huh? Well not now. One star is a gift when its so riddled with exploits its on this version of the app store.

Can’t add any new devices. My daughter got a new iPhone 15. When you try to send an invite to her number the Secure Family’s App just crashes. No invite is sent and when you go back into the App it won’t let you resend an invite because it thinks it already has sent one. Do they even test this software before they release it? I have uninstalled the Admin app, reinstalled it and even tried it on another iPhone……same issue. This is just one of many bugs since they went to the new version of Secure Family. This one makes it basically useless for anyone of your group that gets a new device.

HORRIBLE! Not even worth the free trial.. With twin boys, I just wanted an ap to shut down their data 1/2 hour before bedtime and before the bus comes...to bypass the arguing. This ap is awful. I’m still in my free trial period and will def not be paying for this piece of junk. Kids can easily disable and bypass the companion ap that has to be installed on their phones. It doesn’t work properly at all. Location is not accurate and tells me my kids are 1.8-3.8 miles away from home when they are in the house. Notifications for departure/arrival has worked once between both kids. It does not shut down internet at the designated times. Bring back smart limits....it worked and kids couldn’t manipulate it!!

Didn’t work - deleted. This app didn’t work and is not ready for release. As a parent of a 17 year old - to be required to install a companion app on your child’s phone that is then supposed to be paired is not a realistic option. The entire premise of this app is to impose limits, controls, and oversight of a child. Any child above the age of 5 would known to just delete the companion app or take any number of steps to get around these efforts. The pairing didn’t work anyway. The capability to turn off data ALREADY exists in the standard clunky AT&T app and online. AND I already pay $$hundreds of dollars each month for this feature. Just add the ability to create schedules. For example, Google’s Free companion app to their Wifi routers allows one to create “pause” schedules for a device or collection of devices. So I have the ability to control my child’s WiFi access very simply and without paying for a service, but the simple act of turning off cellular data... lets all see if there is a way we can monetize that feature and greatly inconvenience our customers in the process. truly. Makes me consider other carriers and I have been with AT&T for more than 16 years.

Won’t let me agree to terms. The app forced me to update. And the new app wants me to accept terms. Only choices are “I agree” which is greyed out or “Decline” which is the ONLY thing I can do. And when I type Decline it says I can’t use the app. Then allow me to accept. Honestly. Does anyone test these applications? Or are they outsourced to cheap labor countries that, well, you get what you pay for. Right now the app is. I longer useable. This app let me locate my son back in June. He turned off his find my phone. But he couldn’t shut off this app. And it allowed me to find him the day he tried to commit suicide and get him to a hospital and save his life. Wish it were more accurate, but it gave me an area and I found him. AT&T is charging way more than other cell companies. Can’t you pay for quality programmers? Fix this! Also this app says my son has to download some app too. Even though it said this in the past, I never did snd the tracking still worked. I think to the nearest cell tower, but still have me an idea. And now it needs a helper app? Who designed that? If a kid doesn’t want to be found, he can delete the app. If this requires an app on my sons phone for me to track him, what happens if he tries to commit suicide again and disappears and I can’t find him? My guess is the answer would be a huge lawsuit against AT&T.

Set-Up User Interface Needs Improvement. The user interface, from desktop to mobile is not intuitive and the logic algorithm is off. I was unable to pair my child’s phone due to some circular logic which leaves this security issue unresolved even after being in touch with support- whose main contribution was telling me things I already knew. I think Apple should come up with an intrinsic iPhone solution to this problem of parenting in the digital age and ATT should not charge extra for this.

Hope you didn’t enter the wrong phone number as primary parent!. If you accidentally entered your child’s phone number as the primary parent, you might as well call it quits because there’s no hope for you. You mean, you followed all the instructions of canceling, waiting 30 minutes, and signing back into your app, only to find your child’s phone number as primary parent? LoL!! Don’t call AT&T because you will turn blue. They will tell you that it’s Apple’s issue and of course Apple will tell you that it’s AT&T issue. As an IT professional myself, I’ve never seen an app in which a primary owner of accounts and it’s mobile devices not have any control on changing any setting on any app that they own. Cancel and save your $7.99 a month. It’s not worth it!

The change. Before AT&T changed or updated this app I enjoyed having it and didn’t mind paying for it. You didn’t have to have the other people on you phone plan download an app in order for you to have a round about area where they where. Yes if they download the app you get an accurate location. But when you have people on your account that aren’t wanting to download the app at least you get an area of where they are. Now you get nothing. Now you don’t even get an area. Now they have to have the app downloaded on their phones. Sorry but I stopped paying for this now. I have “grown” kids that won’t download the app and I would rather have an area that comes up as to where they are because I can figure it out from there. I don’t like the “upgrade”

Horrible update - poor user experience. I wish I could select zero stars. I have had the Secure Family app for years and have been happy until the new upgrade. I have never had a fairly decent and successful application go through an upgrade that turned out to be so non-user friendly. An upgrade should be seamless and the user should feel no pain and be able to enjoy the new functionality right from the start. This new upgrade is impossible to sync up, it causes every family member pain to have to do an upgrade, and even when doing so the app instructions to reconnect are horrible and basically unintelligible and incorrect. I will not pay another month for this poorly designed app upgrade.

Incredible App To Keep My Kids Safe!. Love love this new update. So many new features to utilize to keep my kids safe. My favorites are knowing exactly where my kids are especially in the evenings. Also, like the fact they can’t delete the app off their phone without my permission. $7.99 is a no brainer as it saves me hours in managing how my kids spend their time. In the future, I don’t think I’ll be switching carriers as this app is a real time saver…….(time is money 🤔)🙏AT&T

Pairing the phone?. The biggest problem I have is to pair your child’s/teens phone. We should be able to set parameters without having to pair their phone or possible install something on their phone which they can easily delete. The data management should just be allowed at the plan level where the parent can set times and forget it and not have to “pair” anything. The whole point is to do what’s needed whether they agree or not as a parent I think we know what’s best for kids. Pairing is making you go through the child in essence for their permission to pair? Why? I’ve had the Verizon family app which no pairing was necessary. I’ve moved to ATT for better reception but this is not good

Terrible app. This app kept crashing and not working without warning. The secure times never worked, the protection against inappropriate content that we set up rarely worked and after trouble shooting with ATT several time and almost on an every other day basis having to erase and reinstall the app on both my phone and my child’s it never fully worked for more than a few hours, finally totally NOT working at all without any warning and it wasn’t until I checked my child’s phone did I find that NON of the “secure” settings we were using were working even though it said on MY phone that it was all set up.

App refuses to open and stuck at update screen. App is non-responsive now when you open it. It still runs in background with scheduled alert's but trying to actually open it seems to be stuck on an update screen that times out and tries to try again. The app itself is pretty basic. It can only track your child based on radio tower triangulation. If you want more advanced features you need to plant your child's phone with the other secure app aka spyware. This may work for young kids but for teens try to get into their phone to install anything; your mileage is going to vary. And if you can do that, then just enable the apple find my friends tracking and skip this subscription cost. The triangulation is maybe worth the cost of sub but the app itself is garbage.

Happy now. After the major update, I thought I had lost functionality, but after writing here and got developer feedback, I changed the primary account, and it works now to locate all phones of the account without installing software on them. I’m happy with the service again and believe the change has been for the better

noo just no. This app is a huge invasion of privacy i think apple should take it down. When I looked on my phone i saw that i got a notification from apple that said THEY CHECKED MY LOCATION 145 TIMES LIKE FOR REAL MAN. This app just made me and my family separate and just lost all my trust. Its the apps like these thats ruins children’s lives and ruins trust family’s as it checks messages in everything and one way to make this app actually good is to just have to location thing and take out checking messages and what games they have parents can stop being lazy and do that on their own PLUS THATS THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN GAIN TRUST FROM THEIR CHILDREN. just have the location thing on like life 360.

INVASION. This app is a complete invasion of privacy, and is a joke. There is no reason anyone should be able to go on anyone’s phone and lock apps as well as shut off the wifi. I understand blocking certain content but it gets to a point where it’s to much especially when your kid is grown all im saying is this is going to make ur kid not trust you. And all it will do is make them sneakier, at the end of the day you need to establish trust and rules with your kids so they don’t have to feel the need to do bad things and hide stuff from you. Be a if you have a healthy trustworthy relationship with your children you should trust that they will not do bad things. And if and when they do make that mistake help them through it to ensure they learn from the mistake, and don’t make it again. This app should not exist, because it is and invasion of privacy and it is barely functional.

This app has location problems. Often this app pins my daughter off in the middle of a field in the country. Also, it does this when she and her phone are at home, no where near that location. It’s given me fear driven anxiety many times. Also, I cannot get the app to pin them at home, it always says near home, and then tells me they are home when they are not, they are over a block, at a friends house. Wish there was a way to make their locations more accurate and not pin them off in weird places. I will refresh it many many times and it’ll still show my daughter is off in the middle of nowhere when she is not.

Great for working Moms. As a working Mom, this app makes me feel closer to my kids each day. I get alerts when they get to school or arrive home on the bus. I can also remotely set restrictions on their internet use and block apps so they do homework when they come home and not go on social media. It is really great to be able to pause the internet with one click. Really happy with the product and the peace of mind it provides while at work.

Can’t add new devices since fall ‘23 update. The app was updated in October/november and now doesn’t keep track of usage history. It always says “o minutes” every day. I got a new device yesterday and it won’t let me link it my app. Each time I try to invite him the app crashes and I have to start over. I’ve updated my phone, deleted and reinstalled the app, and called customer service. They told me they were running maintenance and to reinstall it in 30 minutes, then tried to sell me device protection plans….🙄. Needless to say 3 hours later the app still isn’t working even though I’m paying $7.99 a month. Hopefully it gets resolved soon because it worked well before the update a few months ago!

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Does not work. I’ve had the app for three months now and there are various issues with it. One it alerts the person you are tracking when you are tracking there location. So my kids now when I’m looking for them. Two it alerts of the app even when it isn’t tracking. Three for the past week or so the app has not worked at all. I reached out to At&t to resolve the issue but no luck there. So I paid for this months use but have not been able to use the app. It’s a complete bummer.

Best app in todays world. This makes raising kids in todays day in age so much better. Being able to have the ability to control so much of what they are able to access is well worth the price. Wasn’t able to do 80% of these things when we only used life360. Can’t recommend enough!

NOT GOOD. This new version is way too complicated to install then the prior version. If one thing is off like the VPN all that you did to install it will not work. If one push notification is off but all the necessary ones are on, it will not work. This new version needs to disappear and return the old version. It worked great, why was it changed? Please give us the option of using either the old or the new because I am not a fan of the new version. Too complicated to understand or maneuver.

Only works for small children. If your child is old enough to read or has contact with friends old enough to read they will hack around this service in a matter of minutes. All it takes is for the child or a friend to spend a couple minutes on Google to find all the instructions they need to circumvent this “solution.” There are free solutions that work just as well for small children.

Ok, but.... All my kids have to undo it is uninstall the companion app. How to stop that? Also, RFE: add lunchtime exception to school day settings. My son would like to use his phone to listen to his music but the only option we have is for me to temporarily disable school settings during the day at lunch and re-enable thereafter, which is a total PITA.

Highly recommend it. I highly recommend it especially in our time you never know where your children are or your family member. It’s safe it will protect you will tell you where everybody is how far and so much more.

Awesome app. Glad AT&T is doing something to help us keep tabs on our kids. With phones being such a big part of our lives it’s good to know there’s ways to keep track of our kids and protect them. This app helps me monitor internet usage and make sure my kids are staying safe on the internet

Used to be better. I used this app to prove to my ex-spouse that the kids were taken out of state against court orders That the parent was lying about their location. Lately the cell tower triangulation has been horrible, used to give a few hundred meters but now it’s always a 4 mile radius,If you have the app Open long enough it might find smaller radius but it’s rare not sure what has changed

App won’t work. This latest update has rendered the app as unusable. All it does is say it’s trying to sync but then says my internet connection isn’t working but I can use any other app or browser. All it does is go in an endless loop of trying to sync and then retry or try later and the latter just closes the app. The child’s app has been updated to the newest version of the companion app and I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and same issues.

New and improved!. This latest update is awesome! I signed up right away after seeing an ad and checking it out. I recently switched to AT&T from Verizon, and this is a good reason to stay. Can’t wait to see what the next update brings to keep my family safe.

Terrible. Will not connect will not keep you logged in constantly states do not have permission to use this app TOTAL PIECE OF GARBAGE. Received an update from the app developers explaining how it was all my fault they can’t build a better app. Yes my user nam is unique yes my password is set up correctly. I can get logged in but only after several repeated attempt and being kicked off over and over. YOUR APP IS GARBAGE. Rather blaming the users that your app crashes and is worthless put that time into trying to fix it.

Don’t waste your time.. The smart limits that att use to have was much better. You could set limits of how many text messages they could have for the month and you could turn off their phone whenever you wanted or set time limits when they could use it. The text feature was the best, because you can set limits but still allow text from family or whoever you allow. It kept my kids from texting all day long and they could earn more text messages. You also did not need to have your kids phone to set it up. Please please bring it back.

Accessibility. I love the app. If I could improve on anything, it would be that you can’t change settings for locating the phone. If it’s as simple as a child turning off the features then it’s useless. Kids don’t realize the dangers of being “invisible “

Problem after problem. I’ve been using this app and it’s many updates for a very long time. This most recent update is awful. I can’t sync one of the phones that was always on the account before with zero issues. I spent almost 2 hours on the phone with AT&T tonight and still no resolution. They had to set up a case and I am supposed to just wait to hear back. In the meantime, I can’t track my sons location.

#runaway do not #walkaway from this app.. I wish I had more time to write this review but this is could be so much better. 1. Always drops VPN (my kids did not touch the VPN settings.) 2. Location data is always incorrect or lags, not hours but days. 3. For $7.99 a month subscription this is the worst app ever. (Wish I had stopped the subscription sooner but being a loyal AT&T customer for over 30 years, could not believe it was so much a waste without giving the app the benefit of the doubt.)

Lousy update! Why did you mess with perfection?. Seriously. This app which worked fine for the ten years we’ve used it is now crap. Doesn’t update locations when it works at all. Shows me 50 miles away from where I’m sitting. Shows my husband in a town he was in yesterday. Is now over complicated and no longer the elegant tracker it was. It took three techs (when I called because I was having trouble with the newest version) twelve hours to unfreeze the app on my iPhone. I’ll be looking elsewhere for á similar app. You really dropped the ball on this one AT&T

Recommend for all the new features !. Love the location notification features for knowing where thr family is and ease of setting parameters on kids web sites access. Also , ATT is not selling the data like Life 360

Inconsistent. We left Sprint and went to AT&T in 2019. We had Sprint’s version of the “family locator” app as well. So I can say with experience that the AT&T developers need to fix the bug that send me messages ALL DAY long about the “AT&T app not working correctly “ and that I need “Reactivate from the app”. Minutes later I get a “Pairing has been restored” even though I did nothing to restore it. This happens all through the day for all my family. We live in the city and have no other connectivity issues. This App deserves a negative . The Sprint app is much better.

Whoops! Something went wrong. Very frustrating. Trying to use this app and it won’t allow me to sign in. Keep getting a message that says “whoops! Something went wrong…. Please try again” so I tried again…. And again…. And again. I called customer support and was transferred 3 times and talked to 3 different people who sit on their brains and wouldn’t take the time to help. This actually makes me want to switch phone companies all together. I really would like to be able to monitor my kids.

Crashes adding any children. This application completely crashes, anytime I try to add my kids. This makes it completely useless. I’m on an iPhone 14. I have uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. I’ve restarted the phone. I tried to click on app support here in the App Store but there’s nowhere to submit any bug reports or get a hold of anybody or email anybody or call anybody or anything. I paid for this subscription and it doesn’t work at all.

Never Worked. The app itself has numerous features that would be great. We were really hopeful it would work well. Unfortunately the app never would work. It constantly needed us to pair with our son’s phone. Even after we went through the process of pairing, within 48 hours it would fail and require us to re-pair. That is a horribly impossible feat when your child is not near you. After 2 1/2 months of utter failure by the app to remain paired, we finally gave up and canceled the service. It’s a great concept that fails miserably.

Won’t let me sign up. Downloaded the app to set up for my family, but when I went to set up a new account it said it’s just for att and cricket customers.. well I have 6 lines with Att and it still won’t let me

Your app update has wrecked it. This app was fairly reliable before the update. Maybe I’m still on a learning curve but I liked being able to specifically address which messaging and social media apps they could use. Also, my adult children’s phones used to report some location even though they weren’t paired. That feature is pretty terrible now.

Security is key. I’m not trying to keep tabs on my kid. There’s simply some things I don’t want him to see at age 12. This program gives me the flexibility to block What I want and adjust the settings as my child grows older. Super user friendly platform and easy to adjust to your needs.

Needs A LOT of work. I can get 20 text messages in 20 minutes telling me the app is not working correctly on one of my children’s phones. I also get notifications repeatedly that my child has arrived home, but they haven’t left the house to begin with! Very inconsistent in telling me they’ve arrived at set locations. When I try to locate them, their location won’t update. I don’t even have text message alerts even turned on, just push notifications!

App not working. My app hasn’t been working for a while. I called, spent an hour on the phone with customer service, then the app works fir 30 mins. Now it’s back not working again but I have to keep calling to get it to work properly. Waste of time, I’ve had Att fir years.

Location. This app is nice to have but lately it won’t zoom in to their location. It’s giving a huge circle on their whereabouts about a 4 mile area . Very hard to determine where they are actually at.

Not all it’s cracked up to be!. I had high hopes of using this app to monitor my teenage son’s whereabouts and also monitoring/limiting his data usage, especially during the school day. It never worked completely. The location tracker typically worked, despite me receiving frequent messages that our 2 devices weren’t paired & location services would be less accurate. And oddly, the pairing seemed to just work randomly. I’d receive a message that pairing had been restored when I had done nothing to either device, & then later I’d get a message it was broken again. I tried AT&T support without much luck (which I’ve come to find across many AT&T services now). And somehow it’s blocking/limiting his access to use of WiFi even though I didn’t limit that (except during school hours). So he can’t use our home WiFi & is blowing through our cellular data. DISAPPOINTING APP. HORRIBLE SUPPORT!!!

Don’t waste your money!!!. Horrible horrible update. Now you gotta install a companion app to everyone’s phone. Doesn’t work half the time. I want the old one back had it for years it was great just to check in and see where my kids are . Especially when walking home at night. I heard they might go back to the old way without having to add apps on everyone’s phone. Im holding out till the end of this month then I’ll cancel. Oh it told me my kid was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. That was a fun panic attack.

Uninstalled. While it is nice to have some control, there are features I wish could be altered. The VPN over ride made the phone unusable after a while. And it would be nice to turn talk, data, AND messaging off during certain times, not just the internet. Also the GPS location is not accurate. Sometimes it will be off by over 5 miles or say the other device is in another town when it is in your hand. We uninstalled it.

Insecure Family App. Don’t waste your money!! This app works well..... unless the child your trying to protect/control is tech savvy, or at the very least.... knows more about the capabilities of smartphones than the parent. If available, I would have given this app a negative star rating because the app Creators didn’t factor in the individual’s ability to delete the Secure Family app from their smartphone, without sounding off any alarms/alerts/notifications to the primary account holder (parent), and regain 100% phone functionality. Duh.

I don’t think the app works right. So we got the app I set up all the functions but yet still blocked websites and my kid is still watching them then I set a time limit so the and he still is able to work the phone at night passed internet and he still can watch stuff on his phone adult websites blocked and he still is able to watch them so tell me why the app is worth my time the only good thing is I know where he is at all times

I thought it would work. This seemed like a good idea to put on my pre-teens phone but it doesn’t even work half the time. It daily sends messages saying “phone settings have changed causing protection features to stop working” then sends a link to “fix” the problem but it never fixes the problem and I get the message again the next day. My daughter also said it causes her phone to glitch. I will be canceling this

Horrible, puts control in kids hands. This app requires installing/pairing with your kids phone to work. It puts the power back in the kids hands as they can get around the app, unpair or delete it. It provides no control to parents. Horrible. Bring back the old app,Smart Limits.

Might be a good app. Might be a good app, but seemed to cause more problems than it was worth. There was not enough customization in content blocking. Still allowed explicit searches, however the actual links would not work. The google results summarized the page and often contained graphic language and topics. The app locks down the device when entering low power mode. This is no good, since it quits functioning all together.

New Updates!!!. Great app to keep track of the kiddos. One of the best features of the app is that it cannot be turned off by the kids, ensuring that parents can always keep track of their child's activities.

Not sure why this app is not working.. I have followed all of the instructions a carefully, and the only thing this app does is track my child’s phone location (which i can already do on find my friends). I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app on my phone and my child’s phone, unpairing and pairing, turning phones on and off, nothing works. Called att and they have no clue other than uninstalling and reinstalling app. Trying on an iPhone 11 so I’m not sure why i can’t get it to work.

Child location could be a little better. The app is awesome but it would be much better if an out of zone location warning for child location alerts would be available. Like if your child travels outside a certain zone, we’d receive an alert. Other than that it’s great.

Latest Update Stinks!!. Have always been able to track estimated location without issues, or kids knowing when I check. That seems to be gone now. Sometimes I can check and get updates, most of the time not. I don’t stalk my family, but also prefer to use the app for a quick check while they are driving vs having to call and distract them. This seems to no longer effectively work in real time.

Not worth it. I had some type of hope with this app. As a parent of a 15 years old kid, I want to have some control of the contest she downloads , social media and internet used . I noticed how I suspend her internet and she still had access to certain apps and social media do to phone be connected to Wifi . No were I read wifi bypasses the feature this app offers . If I want to know the location I can easily download another app for free . Def not worth it

Never works. The first version at&t had worked amazingly. This new updated and charged for version never logs in. I’ve given it months hoping they would work the kinks out but nothing. I’m lucky if I can get the app to load once a month.

Do not waste your time.. Has to be one of the worst apps. The kids can delete the app from their phone and you will have no way to contact them. Also took over 2 hours to try and get installed. Kept getting incorrect pairing and couldn’t get it to connect. Even though I had both phones in my hands. One I did get it all setup. Turned off my daughters internet to get her to do a chore. She deleted the app and kept on play on her phone. Worthless. Even worse they try to charge you a monthly fee to use. And doesn’t even work.

Frequently not working. When this app works it works like a charm. It does the job. Unfortunately, it very frequently seems to go out, displaying error messages that “content filters and location services aren’t working” or not delivering notifications as set or having other problems. Not clear why these things happen and sometimes these problems seem to resolve on their own. But sometimes the only solution is to reinstall. Not sure it’s worth it at this point.

Can’t even log in - what a waste. I contacted att to figure out why i couldn’t log in. I did trouble shooting & nothing is working. Just gives me an error message of “oops try again later”. I’m using the same log in & password from our att account online. Att told me they would have a supervisor contact me - it’s been hours & still no contact. They said they would be in touch within 4 minutes. What’s the point in this if i can’t even log in to see if it’s something i would like to use. At this point - seems pointless. Hopefully this will get someone’s attention.

Poor upgrade. I’ve called ATT 4 times now to resolve functionality. All they tell me is “we will update our app eventually”. They claim they will resolve it then they just close the ticket without resolving anything. I then have to call back and start the whole process over. The last round (with the issue still unresolved) the agent actually suggested I try a T-Mobile or Verizon app. Like, seriously, I’ve been with ATT for over 10’years and to direct me there I should just move service

Go back to the old version. Since I have updated the app it will not track my 21 year old daughters location, who is in college. I just want to make sure my daughter is safe. She will not download the app for me to keep up with her. And to the developers (that probably don’t have children )that are going to respond that I need to trust my daughter, I do! I just don’t trust the crazy people out there. Too many kidnappings going on in this crazy world and so many idiots, I want peace of mind that she is ok. Thanks to the update I don’t have that peace of mind anymore!

Issues. Ever since the update we have had so many issues with the app disconnecting from the child’s phone. Disabling the VPN and blocking connection when internet was not turned off. We never had these issues before and we have had the service since it came out. Very disappointed. Also when saving locations it keeps telling me I can’t add new locations because my subscription is not equipped and I would need to upgrade but there is nothing to upgrade to.

The jury is still out. The app has some good features, but I was surprised it didn’t have the option to block Discord message app. It’s extremely popular. I’d like to be able to put time limits on the social media apps instead of blocking totally or giving free reign. Ex: one hour on social media as opposed to hours and hours. I am very surprised that with it being ATT that I can’t block certain numbers. We have a problem with a kid that I’d like to be able to easily block with the app.

Start Over. I would like to start off by saying I enjoyed using this app for many years until the recent update, if that’s what you’d like to call it. One family members phone wasn’t giving any location. I deleted their number and attempted to re-add but to no avail, it did not work. The app kept crashing Then each family member was notified by text message of being tracked by someone due to update. Sad product. Will be canceling my feature ASAP.

This App gave me Cancer. I really wanted it to work as advertised, but this app is crap. Any kid smart enough to operate a cell phone is also smart enough to defeat any limits, controls, and monitors within this app. That might be alright if the locate feature was useful. It's not. First, timing: current location is far more meaningful than where someone was the last time they were located. The app rarely can locate someone on demand. Second, precision: two square miles is an awful large radius in a metropolitan area. I wasn't expecting pinpoint precision, but come on. Third, accuracy: rarely is someone located within the noted radius. Despite giving a massive search radius, the app often only gets adjacent to the person's actual location. I do not recommend this app. In fact, I advocate whatever is the opposite of recommending. Delete this app before it gives you cancer too.