Safe Family: Screen Time App App Reviews

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I wish I could give this a zero. We had gotten this app because my brother and sister were addicted to their devices. After the 30 day trial we were unable to take the app off of their devices. We had to actually reset them and lost a lot of their things. They lost all their Minecraft worlds and honestly I am so mad at this company. I will never get anything of this mcafee company. I HATE IT. Do not get this if you do not want it to take over your child’s device forever.

This is messed up and I am disgusted. So you people are going to control children’s lives?!? Do you remember when you were kids and could sneak out and have fun. Kids just want some freedom they don’t want to be the weird kid that can’t do anything cause their parents don’t trust them. I am disgusted with you parents who SPEND MONEY to control your kids lives. They can only live once let them make the best of it. Let them live their lives. I’m sure they will appreciate I have a great relationship with my kid he talks to me and is always open. You installing this ruins your relationship with them. I know when I was a kid and my parents controlled me I was always angry at them. That’s why I swore I would never parent how they did. And my kid loves it. I suggest you do the same

Good. I am happy with this so far!

Will not install on iOS 13.3. Will not work with iOS 13.3. I tried to install it and it would take it to my settings screen and then back to the app but the box was not checked so I was unable to proceed. I deleted the app and reinstalled it three times with the same results. I give up and moving onto something else.

Worst app. Can’t do anything

Great Experience. It’s never been so easy for me to keep my kids from misusing their iphones. SO HAPPY McAfee is offering parental control services like this now. Thank you!!!

iOS 14 update?. Seeing you just released for 13 2 months ago, how long is it going to take for 14? All the app died is crash, location not work, pause/start takes hours. App crashes on open on an iPad. Parent control crashes on location update.

Won’t load - cant modify at all. Won’t show anything - can even set up restrictions or monitor. We have updated/new iPads - an are already McAffee customers. This is terrible!! Doesn’t work at all.

App not working. Downloaded the app but after trying many times to check admin rights it won’t let me. Cant even click next.

Absolutely horrible!. I would not recommend this complete invasion of privacy.

Delete from all devices. This app deleted half of my apps, including my camera. I’m never downloading this app again

Terrible glitch. All he does is restart his phone and my son can do what he wants.(android) doesn’t work on my daughters iPhone PERIOD

Doesn’t live up to claims.. I got this app and paid for the yearly subscription. At first it worked perfectly. Then the app suddenly stopped pausing or even shutting down my kiddos phone for the night. I have repeatedly tried to speak to customer service with no response. I am at my wits end and really regretting the fifty dollar fee I paid.

Dtm in the morning podcast. I think this is a good And smart app For parents to get to see whatever they want to get to see on the kids Device

Very crappy app. DONT WASTE your TIME. So since may of last year been trying to get refund. Going back and forth with the company mcafee. Finally at the end of january 2020 they tell me that i need to go thru itunes for refund since i got app thru itunes. So for the past 8 months NO ONE could tell me this? I told them from beginning how i bought the stupid app and not one employee could tell me that? Not even the 2-3 “managers” could tell me this months ago? So now im out the money i paid for. I did talk to apple and the best they could do is prorate refund. So i got 13 freakin bucks back from the 50 i spent on it. Mcafee wont be getting my services anymore. And they can thank their customer service reps and “ managers”.

It bad but ok. It’s nice but it’s got a really bad glitches

No actual screen time limits. This only limits time of day use, not limit the minutes used. My kid will never get off his device unless he knows he has an hour limit. I don’t mind when he uses it, I don’t want him to over use it. This may be good for teens but not younger kids that need a concrete Times Up app.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!. This app messes up your phone screen. If you block apps, it goes into alphabetical order when you unblock. Its really frustrating when you have to re organize your phone when this dumb app takes everything out of folders and then GLITCHES your phone. I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND THIS APP TO ANYONE!!!

A scam. they took money out of my account every week instead of every month and actually my kids location never was accurate

Worst. Two days in and it’s malfunctioning. When my daughter request access to you a particular app for 30 minutes when I approve it, it still doesn’t work. Now it’s taking forever to load

Poor Performance & Functionality. I have been search for a flexible parental control app and I have tested a number of the highest rated apps. Then, I came across SafeFamily. I have tested the app for over a week now and I can confidently say that it suffers from basic yet important performance issues and lacks flexibility. For example, in many separate occasions, I grant access to the children devices (remotely through my smart phone or locally using the child’s device) but the children devices remain locked.

Love this app but since last update, it’s draining my battery!. We seriously love this app! I can control everything on his tablet and see what he’s doing! Since the last update, it’s draining my battery! My battery usage is showing 53% of my battery today was used by this app and I haven’t even accessed it once! Please fix this!

It works but an other thing. It works I can block apps and other stuff but you know your child can delete the app so please don’t allow them to delete the app mcafee

Man use. I love it thanks.

Apps. My daughter apps keep locking up

Can’t make it work. First time user, trying to sign in, keep saying my password is wrong, reset 3 three times, still not working

Not all the features needed. I downloaded the app because you can manage the amount of time your kids spend on their devices. Unfortunately, you can only select the hours of the day they can access their devices, and not set a time limit. It allows you to pause their devices, but I don’t want to have to keep track on my own.

Distance. So apparently it only works when you phone is nearby the phone that controls the screen time, I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS APP!! 😡

New User. I am just starting to use this. So I’m sure I’ll be updating this review. So far I like it. It was easy to set up. I do have a suggestion: allow parents to set hour and minutes on their own. Like instead of half hour increments do by 5’s. For now I’m giving it four stars.

Doesn't work. All I get is a blank white screen.

Hate it.. Doesn’t show me anything that my kids are doing. If you use iPhones you will have limited access. I can’t even cancel my subscription because it doesn’t work correctly.

The worst. This is the worst app ever give out wrong location information

I hate it. It’s so annoying! My mom is like attached to it! Don’t download it! I was embarrassed at school!!!! I got bullied for it!!!! Parents if u download this app cause your kid(s) aren’t behaving, don’t, it will only make them extremely mad and they could eventually hate you, take it from a girl who’s step mom downloaded it

Doesn’t work. Doesn’t show The right location of my child after hours of my child leave a place the app shows that was in the same place , when I want to unblock some apps on my child phone the app doesn’t work and also my child was able to uninstall the app

Thank you this is very helpful lol. Lol

Very Easy to Use. Simply put, this app works and works well. Another quality McAfee product!

Great service but.... So I love that this app lets me control all my kid’s phones, tablets and computer. The only downside is that I have had issues with the app itself acting like I don’t have a subscription (but I do) and neither Apple or Mcaffee support knew how to solve the problem. Eventually I figured out that if I open the from a different location, it opens correctly.

Worst app ever broke my phone.. Worst app ever broke my phone.

Poor work time. It’s take too much time when i want to allow to my kids their devices😰

This app is garbage after 4 hours of attempting to install on kids phone, still no success!. I can not find a helpful topic I have tried using other browsers . They want to install an enroll file but that doesn’t work. What a load of trash! My only consolation is that I only paid for one month. McAfee if you read these reviews reach out to prove me wrong please

Not what is advertised.. I can’t set the total amount of time my child may use or select specific apps that my child can use.

Not good for IOS. I have an iPhone 8. This app doing not work iOS system. Had to delete and download multiple times, had at least 3 calls with help desk, and it still doesn’t work well with iOS. Eventually I stopped trying, deleted it from my phone and just use the screen time features. Interestingly it stopped working right after the refund period so I can’t get my money back.

Worst app. It bumps you out take forever to unlock I had better ones in the past. Now that I changed phones I can’t go back. Time for a refund

Frustrating. I love the concept of this app and it was working fine but lately the app is useless. I paid for a subscription and the app kicks me out as soon as I get in! I am very frustrated at this point.

Issues with my kid being able to delete it even when she shouldn’t have been able to.. Issues with my kid being able to delete it even when she shouldn’t have been able to.

Crappy app. Product does not work well at all. Difficult to make work. Time rules easy to set up but requests for access take hours to complete. Very poor development work. I’d be embarrassed to call this my app. Find something else to monitor your kids devices. Can’t give less than one star.

Horrible. My mom downloaded the app and did the free Trail and when it was over my phone is still cutting off and the app won’t let her log back in to turn the restrictions off😡🤬

Lag and glitches TERRIBLE. I am the parent. I put the family safe on my kids’ PCs. The program did nothing but give us headaches for 2 days before I uninstalled it. The only thing that changed was this program. On one computer the headphone jack stopped working and on the other it messed up screen settings. It also had SO MUCH LAG on both computers it was like using a 1985 word processor. I spent 30 minutes uninstalling this program from 2 PCs. I had to do the “allow uninstall” link 5 or 6 times on each system before it finally accepted. Even after uninstalling, the headphone jack still didn’t work until I did a full factory reset. Gigantic waste of time in an otherwise ok lineup of security software.

Automatic shut downs. The app doesn’t even stay open long enough to do anything. The smart family app crashes constantly and there’s no phones connected to it. Such a disappointment!

HORRIBLE. This is the worst app ever!!! There are so many more better options than this, my kids have been hacking into it and turning everything off! When I first got it, I recommended it to my neighbor, and her kids just stole her phone to turn it off! We don’t even use it to be “safe.” I just use the time out and the schedule. If the developers want a suggestion, make it so that the adults can use their phone numbers instead of their emails, because emails are a LOT easier to hack apparently. Make it quick, or I am NEVER using or recommending this app again!!!

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Malfunction. This product has the right idea but on Apple it randomly deletes and reinstalls apps and some that you didn’t even have before. It will randomly take everything out of folders and scatter all apps across the pages. It does this once or twice a day.

Not happy. I had this app on my iPhone but my dad had to put this app on my iPhone to “protect” me it didn’t do anything it should do like I deleted the app but it is still on my iPhone and I can’t FaceTime it caused my dad a lot of stress to try to figure it out but the apps useless it won’t even turn my iPhone off at night or early morning

McAfee promises so much delivers so little for iOS. This app simply does not work of Apple products. It crashes CONTINUALLY to the point where you will take 10 mins simply to try and change any restrictions you wish to have on your children’s devices (it crashes in seconds after opening it)On iOS you cannot track movement or location and it crashes so quickly (within 10 seconds of opening the app) that there is no ability to regulate anything. This came as a complimentary download with our Optus Plan but they would be better not to even offer it on iOS devices. Just a complete disappointment. *Update. The developer got in touch and after going through the issues I had been having the latest update has made the app more useable and it no longer crashes.

More Trouble Than It’s Worth. This app does not work as promised and has become so frustrating. I am trying to give it a chance hoping for improvement. I tried to download on a second device of my child’s but could not proceed as the app wanted permission from me but there was no way to move forward to give it.

This app is trash. We got it free as part of our Optus family bundle and it’s been nothing but problems. Set screen time locks but it won’t shut off at the times specified, location only works when it feels like it and now it’s not doing anything at all, I can’t make any changes or delete it off my boys phone. What a rubbish “family safe” app.

Works then doesn’t. Worked for

Not for iPhone. Useless! Went back to using Apple’ own Downtime. Do not contact me, I will not change my mind.

Temperamental & Ineffective. Time restrictions and pause functions don’t seem to work at all despite having the correct date, time & location on each device I Google how to fix the issue, followed the instructions & it still doesn’t work. I definitely won’t be paying for this app.

Make your app work. This is good for restrictions but when it’s time for something to turn it sometimes doesn’t and we try to turn it off and on and it still doesn’t work, please try fix this it would be much appreciated, it especially was hard when remote learning came because the apps wouldn’t turn on

DO NOT GET THIS APP!!!!!!!!!. Originally I thought this app was great. It worked for the first 15 minutes. After that it started blocking almost all of my children's apps, until there was nothing left but some of the apps their iPads came with like settings and iTunes. Even once we deleted the app the problem didn't stop. After much frustration we found the problem. We had to delete the profile from settings. Please fix this for future users. I will not ever get this app again. I had the same problem as Gupshaney. So this wasn't a one off thing. Both of my children had the same problem.

Doesn’t control screen usage. The app work on some of my kids phone and not in other ones. Doesn’t control the screen time . It’s really frustrating why works on one device and not in another

Worst app. Completely destroyed my new phone. Configuration + Setup got deleted. This app is a hot piece of garbage.

Doesn’t work after few days. I set up screen time rules on my sons iPad. It worked only for two days. After that it never worked and blocked all apps permanently irrespective of the time set. I had to delete the mdm profile from the iPad eventually to enable all apps. Tried reinstalling but it had same issues again. What’s a waste of time and effort. 👎👎

Not for iPhones. App sounded great, useless on iPhones however. Unless the app is open on the child’s phone continuously, the location tracking does not work. Having the app open drains the battery in half a day (iPhone SE 2020) App age restrictions couldn't be changed from the original install and no monitoring whatsoever was available. Tried it for a few months with the Optus plan but I’m glad I didn’t pay for it. Deleted the configuration profile and app from the kids phone quite easily with no input from the parents phone whatsoever when I decided I’d had enough. Wouldn’t recommended paying for this on IOS.

Very risky. This app doesn’t work as it says. They don’t give the permission to access apps that we unblock and there is a risk of need to reset the phone to work properly without the app as it access the phone as an administrator app. Don’t use it.

Not intuitive poorly configured to setup. It’s not great. It’s not intuitive especially the calendar setup. These apps are a very hard sell with your kids so when you agree time and dates it needs to be right. I’m not sure if I’m selecting a day or deselecting it. When you load a time you hit save nothing changes. You have to hit the AM time to get the PM time to load and then hit save for it to load. I find it very poorly configured and confusing.

Good for Family’s. I use this on my family of 5 and it is really good because I can see what they are doing and could you please add what the we’re doing on the app they were on

Point of view as a child. Coming from a child it might seem like I’m annoyed because of downtime but the truth is this app block everything all my apps vanish and do not return unless my mum does this long process. This have become a big problem because I have to other sisters that use this app and the have the same issues. My mum is now thinking of disabling the account and now I’m worried that even if she does these issues will keep on happening. This app has caused more issues then it was supposed to help with.

Deleted after 12 hours. Came with phone plan. Except it says I only get 30 days and I thought I got it for the life of the plan. That’s a moot point anyway. Trialled it on one of my kids’ devices. When I tried to free up apps for them to use, the McAfee app kept timing out. So I’ve got a kid screaming she suddenly can’t use YouTube and I’ve got an app screaming it can’t update her phone. So I deleted the management profile from her phone. That’s the quick fix. Deleting the app will come later.

DO NOT GET. Hands down the worst app ever. This app has rendered my sons new phone useless. Even after deleting his profile from my phone it still is in lock down. I have wasted a whole day trying to fix. Left with little choice but to reset his entire phone. Just the way everyone wants to spend their weekend. Save yourself the hassle and get use another app. To update - interestingly it was my 14 year old son who found a way to solve the problem. He was able to disable my access to his phone through the app setting (his profile was still on my phone). This effectively makes this app a complete joke as kids can disable the monitoring capacity of their parents. I spoke with a friend who is a software developer who had a look and commented that a good portion of computer savvy kids today would be able to hide from their parents or block their access. So, for two reasons, it stuffs up your phone and it is a very poor monitoring system, don’t get this app. NOT SAFE!

Not that great. I paused kids screen time but they can still use their phones I can stop them using individual apps Not overly great for a premium service All have iPhones

Doesn’t work. While setup, trying to tick Admin rights checkbox and the app just hangs. Tried everything. It worked fine for my other son’s iPad setup. Very disappointed!!!

App does not work.. This App does not work, I have it installed on multiple iOS devices and it continually crashes and does not activate settings on the Children’s iPhones. A pointless purchase!

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Needs improvement. I need a function to disable the apps one by one, cuz some apps are rated as 17+, but it’s actually appropriate for kids to use. Hope for improvement!!!!!!! Thank u!

What a trash. Don’t try it in iPad, it doesn’t work just waste your time

Lost control. All of a sudden it is no longer working. The apps are gone and have not come back. My son is allowed his iPod on Saturday yet none of his apps are there and I cannot delete and re install.

Doesn’t work. I completed all the steps to setup the app on my daughter’s iPad with the admin rights to me on mine as well. I setup the time-of-day limitations from 9pm to 7am daily, but it doesn’t work. This morning I went in and she’s watching Netflix at 6:20am and I’m typing this from her iPad at 10:42pm. Not happy.

Absolute crap. Locks up the phone for no reason, doesn’t follow the scheduled outage times. You will regret this app.

Can't even open. I tried this app on my ipad Couldn't even load

Bugs. A beaucoup d'erreur et aussi je ne reçoit aucune alarme

Don’t don’t don’t don’t install. I didn’t believe when reviews said over a year ago that bugs would not be fixed for this long! It deleted all the apps... including the App Store app! What a waste of my freaking time! Why keep a product offering that does completely nothing and causes more issues? Please take this app off!

Does not work. I set it up. For some reason my child had no access at all. I checked all the menus and options, but no luck. Needs a major overhaul

Deleted Everything. I put this app on my 12-year-old daughters phone and it seem to delete all of her downloaded apps including camera, the App Store among other ones. WTH?!?!

I can't unblock the apps. My father had put this on my iPad and he wanted to try blocking the apps to see what happens and when he unblocked them HALF OF MY APPS poped up and the OTHER HALF DIDNT and the apps that didn't pop up are ones that I use everyday.

Pointless if you want to block websites. The program cannot filter and block websites on iOS. Pointless.

Doesn’t work for IOS. Don’t download this app on any apple device, it will cause a lot of frustration and it will make any apple device less secure.

Keeps Removing Apps. I’ve allowed a number of apps on my son’s iPad. But when I install the admin access it keeps removing the apps I had already allowed my son to access.

This is the best app ever.. It beats the famisafe in a heart beat. I strongly recommend this product to all parents.

Crashes. When it works it’s a good program but trying to use the app it crashes all the time. Have to delete and reinstall/log out back in way to much. Update. Contacted support they have escalated it and told me not to delete the app until the developer calls or emails. Still can’t use App. It’s included with a paid service so at least I’m not wasting my money on this.

Not great. The only thing this app did was to set daily limits- but not how many hours. Instead, what time from the am and pm it was to be allowed. Not very helpful. It "offers" blocking certain content and apps, but Apple Family already does that. Plus, my son just deleted it off his iPod. Not helpful. Glad it was free. Trying to find a good app to help control screen time is quite the challenge.

This is the worst app ever. I don’t like this app this is the worst app ever

Annoyingly dangerous. You download an app to help your kid manage their screen time because you're tired of arguing with them, and the app deletes all of their apps! Over an hour of technical support to get the apps back and delete this app for good. Beyond this fun evening, icons for functionalities were missing - instructions references icons / buttons that didn't exist. I also couldn't set multiple time slots of 'app time' during a day. I also couldn't customize each day - can only set a time for all five weekdays and the weekends. Overall, needs a lot of work.

Locked iPad after deleting device. Soooo mad! I had tried setting up my iPad with this awhile back but it wouldn’t work and then all of a sudden the other day it started working but had all my apps locked so I removed the device from the parent side on my phone but my iPad is still locked out!! I tried clicking on the support in the app from the parent side but it doesn’t work! Now all my apps are hidden and I am not Impressed. I want this fixed ASAP!

Still Expired certificate !!!!!!. Still not helping, Here the certificate info: —————————————— VALIDITY PERIOD Not Valid Before 2022-03-14, 6:40:14 AM Not Valid After 2023-03-14, 6:40:13 AM ————————————————— Get on it and fix it, Cheers

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Screen Control Not Working.. I set the screen control on both my kids iPod touch and nothing happens after the set time passes devices still work.

Great idea, bad app. I really wanted to like this app--it seemed great. However, all it does is freeze and tell me to restart the app due to "error code -1". I don't have time for that, sorry.

Spies. I feel like I’m being treated like im untrustworthy and being spied on.I cant do anything on my phone now.Once used it can’t be deleted, it’s like a part of my phone now.HOW DO U DELETE IT

Can’t get much worse. This app started off great (and free). Then it locked up and would not respond to my commands. After spending an extensive amount of time on the phone with tech support uninstalling and reinstalling, I thought I was fine only to have the free trial period expire while I had screen time restrictions on. Now there are NO APPS on my child’s phone. This thing has caused more problems than it’s solved.

Have you tried using your product?. Have you tried contacting yourself or is your customer service just a theory? After clicking thru layers of options to try to reach YOU virtually, I completed the online form to what I thought was “ticket #” to reference when you call. Instead, I got a “thank you....we hope you received the assistance you needed.” WTH?

Simply doesn’t work. First it doesn’t work with most of the iOS devices. There is a prompt. Even is android devices, my kids can still open blocked app. The Device timer doesn’t work. The only thing I found it working is the location. Don’t waste you time. It will only cause frustration.

App doesn't work. Downloaded the app, but it doesn't work. Won't even let me sign in. Just keeps telling me they are having technical issues and to start the app over and try again.

Terrible. It keeps on coming up as an error

Issues. I loved this app to start with but now it is limited access to apps that I granted access too including his flashlight which is ridiculous. Every time I get on the app lately it says that an error occurred and to restart the app. I restart it and it does it again. Please fix this or I will be forced to find a different app

So Far So Good (needs updates). I think that this app is pretty legit. It would help if the child locator would refresh and update way more often. My son is in his room at this moment and the app still has him 30min away from us. I have been having trouble with Editing my Home address location...something is wrong with the Geo thingamajig. I'm still going thru the app features and as the updates come, I will update my review and Star Rate. Let's start with 2 Stars.

Can't recommend. I was really hopeful this would help me with parental controls on my son's tablets. But it fails at some basic things. I denied them access to all web browsers and Google Tools. But they have complete access to these things. I'm pretty sure other things I tried to block or filter don't work either. The screen time doesn't work. It is basically useless. Both Tablets are identical Asus Zen Pad 3S 10.1. I made this app a device administrator and gave it accessibility access. But alas it is a fail!

HORRID. I HATE THIS APP, DONT GET IT, WORST APP EVER, NOT GOOD, HORRIBLE,WOULD YOU WANNA BE TRACKED? WOULD YOU WANNA BE WATCHED? NO RIGHT? THIS APP IS HORRIBLE

Counter productive. My parents disable my apps during the week and on the bus which means that I can’t play games with my friends on the bus. Sometimes when they turn apps back on it doesn’t work or only turns on 9+ apps. In the description it states that its supposed to build trust and bring families together, its doing the exact opposite. It’s giving them the power to restrict everything, I already don’t have safari or anything social media but this lets them take it way to far. Please do something about this, I know that’s what the app is designed for but in the wrong hands it can ruin a relationship between parent and child. If you have read this far, thank you, and I hope you feel the same way or at least understand what I am going through because of this app. Thank you, -A restricted apple user

Ipad is no longer working. The program locked up the iPad. Customer support is not helpful. Waiting on engineers to fix the bugs. Would have been nice if they tested the program before releasing. Update - fortunately, the App Store allowed me to finally delete it.

Drains battery. Can lose 1-2 percent a min with only Spotify at 94 battery Heath meaning this app will kill battery and will continue to stay on in the background for over 20 HOURS a day meaning it is Spyware taking more then it needs.

Won't let me change settings. I have an iOS and my kid has an android. I downloaded this app because it was available on both OS's. It appears to be tracking activity properly, but it will not let me change settings for web and app access. There are sliders to turn access of and on and they don't respond when I touch them. It also won't let me turn off web access because it says that feature is not available for iOS, but I am trying to change settings for my kid's android from my phone's parent app. It should let me turn off web for her phone.

全然機能しない全然機能しない. 一体何なんだ、このアプリは。息子のPCにSafe Familyをインストールしても、全く機能しないし、このアプリも子供の行動を追跡できない。Adult siteもブロック出来てないし、追跡も出来ない。金返せレベルの話。何度、インストールし直しても、同じ結果。

Not a good choice for ios. Can't control nearly as much on iOS as android

Needs Tweeking - Horrible. It looks attractive but does not work. If child turns off device or allows it to sleep I found that Accessibility will automatically turn off. McAfee SF will no long protect when this happens. Monitoring is completely shut down when Accessibility is turned off. The child cannot turn it off manually, but all they have to do is let it shut down and return and it’s off. Not sure on an IOS devices, but keeps happening on my Android.

Son’s device still has restrictions even after I opted out.. I used the free trial period of McAfee family with my children’s devices. Once the period ended, I did not sign up for the monthly fee (still thinking about it). My daughter’s device is back to normal with no restrictions but on my son’s iPhone and IPad, restricted apps do not appear again -including the App purchase application, si je can’t download them again. It’s as if he had a permanent restriction we can’t lift. This never happened before we used McAfee. Can you please help?

Concerned Dad. Update 28Jan: Link with son’s iPod glitched. Stopped responding to my toggles. Got on www to McAffee - live chat. Helped immensely. Taught me how to fix the problem. Now I know and don’t need help again for same problem. Still no effect, however, using the master switch option introduced during recent update. Great App.. been using it for About a month. Wish that I could toggle specific apps not just groups of them (4+, 9+, and 12+) — that’s Apple policy not McAfee’s. Also, doesn’t always reflect on the kid’s app what I have set on mine. Probably about a 75% success rate. Good enough for me. Just starting to use the “screen time” function. The new change adding the “master switch” for each device and all devices didn’t work this morning.

Great app! Excellent tool for parents. This product helped me manage the amount of time my kids spend on their devices and prevent them from accessing inappropriate content. Seeing my kids on a map is a bonus.

What happened?. This app started out amazing and it did everything we needed. For free! It Blocked adult content, apps, purchases, set time limits.. then one day it had a bug and I had to call to try and fix it. Instead I got rerouted to someone who didn't understand me and they added my iPhone to the mix and then MY apps were getting blocked and my sons set up disappeared. I'm still trying to get it out of my phone. What a mess!

Expected better from McAfee - App not working. Main reason I downloaded this app was to control screen time on my sons ipad. The app had completely no effect on limiting him. The time I set never took effect over the course of two days. I deleted the app and downloaded it again and still didn't work. Complete waste. McAfee should not make false claims. Additionally their support knowledge base was useless in helping. Very disappointed.

Great App... after a month not so great. 1 month working well so far! Have all the options, block for time, block some apps, location... I really recommended! Update... it's blocking my children's apps without my authorization, location not working well, problems on IOS

Not good. It doesn't block apps that I have set for my kids to not have access. There are a lot of bugs. There should be an option to set a specific time for screen time other than a time frame. I want to like it but... it needs more work.

Terrible product, DO NOT PURCHASE!. Purchased Mcafee Total Protection on 10/20/2020. Big mistake! If you install this product be ready to spend hours on the phone, multiple days a week for several months, no kidding. They’ll cleanly reinstall your product until it “seems” to work. Each one of the products that makeup the Total Protection suite are good concepts but they are half-baked. Their updates will still crash your Windows system just like they did in the 90’s! iOS apps do not work, they just constantly crash. It’s impossible to get anything done with these products since your main goal is to just get them working adequately. Update 1/31/21 Received a response today from Mcafee concerning my review. They apologized and asked that I contact them, through the main support contact on their website. Cookie cutter and tone deaf response, as you should expect from Mcafee.

It's hit or miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I use it on my daughters old iPhone 4s and was working great at first. But sometimes when I change the screen time, the new rules never take affect, even after an hour or a day. Sometimes when it supposed to allow her to use her apps, they are disabled, they disappear and don't come back unless I remove the management file, which basically uninstalling the parental controls. I recently downloaded this app on my other daughters iPad mini and cannot seem to get the allowed screen time working. I save the new cutoff time, it tells it will take a few minutes to take effect. I check her activity, then go back to edit screen time and the new time I chose is not what I see, but the default times of 6:00am to 9:00pm, I need the cutoff time to be earlier! This is so annoying.

No time limit. Doesn't have the most basic feature of a parental control app.

Subscription. I tried to subscribe and my iTunes account says I am subscribed but the app says that I need to buy a subscription

Has potential. This app has so much potential but just falls so short! I think having the ability to control individual apps would be better than grouping the apps together. Places doesn't work at all, nothing shows up. Lastly, a screen time limit feature would be great, but doesn't appear to exist, there are very limited settings and useful features.

Child can delete the app!!. I installed the app and my son deleted it 5 mins later!!! What kind of garbage is that??? Worthless.

I wanted this to work. It took 2 days for the kids to figure out how to defeat this and they were back to collecting smurf berries at 6 am and missing the school bus. This app appeared to have things locked well and it worked well when I tested it, but I watched the kid defeat the security before my eyes and open up blocked apps, and operate the phone during prohibited hours, and I have no clue how the other kid managed to get her video chat app operating and not reporting its usage but this isn't working.

Disappointed Dad. Horrible! Started out fine, but stopped letting me allow my son to download apps. Some apps he needed for school! So I tried to uninstall it. That didn’t work. Called tech support. They were useless. They couldn’t help me uninstall the app. So my son can’t download the apps he needs. What now?