Nintendo Switch Parental Cont…

I love this app, but there is a couple of things that would earn it five stars. 1. Allow more than 3 devices to be controlled. 2. Have a feature whereby you can extend for a set period of time so as not to have to change the current days setting and forget it or enter PIN and leave the device unlocked for the remainder of the day.

Unfortunately there is no way to set restrictions of use in the mornings, no simple method to apply bonus time, and no restrictions per profile which makes this app not very useful for families who share a device or anyone with a child who prefers gaming to getting ready for school. Also the notification that an incorrect PIN has been entered is useful, but it’s almost more important to know when it’s been entered correctly, because that’s when the kids have discovered the PIN and are up all night. So it should be an option.

For a gadget designed for kids, this deserves to be so much better :( Laggy stats mean that changing the schedule might not behave s expected: remember to refresh before updating times. Would be great to have a “one-off add time” facility, like Xbox Family, etc, rather than having to change the schedule and remember to revert. Poor break down of what was played when.

I find this useful for monitoring and controlling access for our children’s switch devices (we have 3 at home). However, what would make it really useful is a bit better control like the ability to temporarily add additional time just for the day. The only thing I can do right now is to change the settings for the device ongoing (eg. Set it from 1hr to 2hrs of usage on a Monday) but that’s not great if you forget to switch it back later. Please if you can add this feature it would help with restricting and also rewarding my children with time too.

Hopefully it can show the entire gameplay time in the app too

It doesn’t help, kids still can play after times up

Great to have the control for session periods per day. Would be good to be able to put parental code in the approve a duration rather than disable for the day. Would love to be able to disable for 15, 30, 45, 60 min intervals, like to use switch time as a reward. My child responds well to timer when using switch in weekends when he has a time for use on that day. Would be nice to have time period with 5 minute warning to help transition once time is over.

Except the app won’t let me add a switch console

Great to have this ability to restrict time played and end time. I would love to have added feature of restricting a start time as well please.

Needs better flexibility to adjust parental controls. Maybe look at other parental control apps and programs like Microsoft Family Safety and utilise similar types of control. Even the ability for the child to request more time instead of having to input a pin on the switch itself?