Microsoft Family Safety

this app is not very good, it wont let me connect their account/ device too the app!

It works fine until the kid finds out how to disable it on Task Manager. This could be fixed if Task Manager was included in the apps a parent can ban - but it isn’t! Honestly I would gladly pay for this app if they just got it to work properly.

All you can do with this app is see a list of family members. Can’t connect devices or manage any consent. A complete waste of time. Trying to make any changes online is impossible. Usability is non-existent. Links are broken everywhere and keep taking me to Xbox pages. I’m not on an Xbox! I’m on an iPad. And after this experience I can guarantee I won’t ever be on an Xbox. Shameful. Seriously, you should be ashamed.

Genuinely one of the more frustrating experiences I’ve had with an app. For whatever reason over the last few months the app has gotten slower and slower, to the point where I’ve given up and turned it off. When the kids request more time, more often than not it takes a minute or two for the PC to actually respond to the apps answer. One of the PCs just doesn’t work at all now and I need to approve it on the device. The latest was today I can’t approve websites. No idea why, just stopped working and I downloaded chrome instead. While I appreciate it’s free, I’d rather pay for something that actually works.

I love this app as it lets my control screen time for my kids including the Xbox, but it needs the function to reset the kids passwords, as I have tried multiple times to use the Microsoft password reset tool but keeps getting rejected. I should be able to reset my own child’s password who is clearly a family member in the Microsoft Family Safety app.

Win account can change system settings that could break Family Safety features they need to make this app with children as the focus. Having a game sign out mid game because an approval wasn’t done fast enough is mentally exhausting for them. Win11 one drive makes your windows account profiles the Same as your name. They aee creating problems for users and then blaming the users for the problems with win11. Win11 is the worst windows they have ever made, it is NOT an improvement on windows 10. Maybe for security but for user experience definitely not. Onedrive should never have been setting the name of the local user account folder and the name you use on your pc You don’t spend 10k for Microsoft to control the product One drive should be opt in Fivem (the gta mod framework) has a major security flaw that can see your local name used in game. This is an incredible privacy risk and security risk. The fact this happened ona. Video game without ever approving it is insane,

Every time I try to approve an app purchase the app jams up and doesn’t let me input my login details. So frustrating

This app is now obsolete since they removed unified screen time… Now we have to manage different platforms screen time individually and kids might want to play different platforms each day etc. Give us the option between unified and separate.. Also children are unable to see how much time they have remaining. (they used to be able to do this)

Terrible app. Can’t even use it for 2 weeks without it breaking

Doesnt work half the time and then needs signing in over and over again. Also kids can easily get around controls by using private mode on the browser. Basically useless