Painful – SaferKid Text Monitoring App Review

Quick UI recommendation from someone who works in tech. Disable the "lock account because of too many failed logins" feature until the first installation has completed. I'll keep working to get this installed once my account is unlocked. Families generally have many devices on the same account. Very painful to get this configured the first few times and now the account is locked. (I understand why this happens-but the feature shouldn't enable until the account is fully set up to avoid extreme frustrations for new account owners.) Few more things. You must set up an iCloud account for your child. Many people have not done this. If you don't, you will get a jumble of data from every device associated with your account. You must enable iCloud backup on the child's device. Most users will need to buy more iCloud storage because the free 5Gb isn't enough. This is an extra cost associated with this app. I worked through this over two days. I've had a full backup now for almost 24 hours and I still can't access anything from my child's phone. Unless you understand how this app interacts with the data being pulled from your child's phone this is not easy to use. It's still not working for me and I work with tech for a living. I'm going to give this another few days but at this point I'm skeptical, do not see how this will provide real time information, and do not believe that this will capture text messages that are quickly deleted. This app has no monitoring within various apps like Facebook. From what I can see, if it's working perfectly you can (1) monitor text messages and (2) control screen time. I'm not convinced that makes it worth the cost.
Review by Ronald_R on SaferKid Text Monitoring App.