Parental Control App - Kidslox 4+

My family have been using this app now for over a year or more. It has such comprehensive features, which have just got better and better.
There are too few apps to help us parents retain control where technology & our children is concerned. This app has revolutionised our whole family dynamic.
No longer do I have to fight to get the iPad from my daughter when screen time is up. I set the daily limits, and when her two hours is up, the device goes into auto lockdown. I say what can and can’t be accessed when she is able to use the device. I can customise what features I allow and when.
Now my child knows if she won’t give back the device I can put it immediately into lockdown mode from my device, rendering her device useless.
She can ‘earn’ more time by good behaviour and doing jobs. It’s now used as a reward, instead of dominating our lives.
It has a schedule I can set for wake up time in mornings, and auto lock down at bedtime so no midnight usage if night waking.
Personally I feel this app should come as standard on all devices so that parents can take control. Also it enables device sharing, as there’s the option for parent & child mode. So I can still use the devices unhindered.
It works by using a private VPN.
Cannot recommend this app highly enough!

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Everything was working fine for a few months, I liked it although it was quite limited. Then it cocked up all the settings saying my son had been on 6 hours in a day when his phone was home and he was at school then it continually did that every day. He was being locked out every day. I queried this with kl so we were asked to delete the apps on both machines and reload. We did this and still had different problems. It wasn’t great and we all got more and more frustrated with this application that we stopped payments for it as it hadn’t worked for a few weeks. Now we are in a circular situation in that we allegedly haven't completely finished properly, so we got back in touch with kl and they asked us to go through their finishing procedures, we clicked their link and attempted to and we got stuck after the email & password was entered and was then asked for a pin, which we forgot, so we keep hitting the forgot my pin dialogue box and it takes us back to enter email & password, and on and on and on. The password which we wrote down was perfectly correct. So now i await their helpline again. I want this sorted but it looks like it has a way to run yet. The only good thing is their support people do contact you, however we are yet to establish closure of this, I’ll let you know. Such a shame, I thought this would be the answer to controlling phone-time.

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My dad got this app for me about 6 months ago maybe because i always spend too much time on my phone and as my GCSE’s are coming up i need to study more. It does work quite well for the daily limits and downtimes and stuff but there are some faults that really annoy me.
It tracks the time down wrong, for example: my daily limit is 3hours on weekdays and 5 on weekends but Kidslox will say i’ve used all of my daily screen time but apple screentime will say i’ve only used 2h 15mins??? this has been happening for a while and caused a fuss because i have to ask my dad to extend my time.
He also can’t choose what apps he can and can’t block after my daily limit goes off, i often use my phone for school work and if my limit goes off i may still want to study but he can’t choose which apps don’t get blocked so when it goes off they all go away bar a few. This is so annoying!!
and this next one GRINDS MY GEARS!!!
the day after when my phone unlocks all of my apps are jumbled around into alphabetical order and this is INCREDIBLY ANNOYING. I’m an extremely organised person and i have a lot of folders for my apps to know where they are and all of that and i can’t have them anymore as this app gets rid of them. I’ve read a few other responses to people’s complaints about this bug and they say it can’t be fixed but i need you to try and fix it idc how change the way it’s made idc i want my folders thanks and goodbye

is good tho for the most part !!

If you are a kid, we recommend you discuss your allowed screen time with your parents as we do hope you understand that excessive usage of the devices can be very harmful to your health and studies.