Abigail Johnson 4
Friday, March 28, 2025
I have found a pervasive flaw in the user profiles. It does not shut the Xbox off when the time for profile has been exhausted. Also, some of the family settings are very unclearly worded: asking to buy things is actually the inverse of what the wording implies. Finally, changing the game pass tier was very difficult and not intuitive at all. Feels like Microsoft is trying to make this as complicated as possible so parents give up and allow kids unfettered access.
John McGee 24
Friday, August 2, 2024
This is handy to limit kids' use of their Xboxes, but the app itself is problematic. Within the last few months, specifically (likely since the last update). The app just won't load sometimes, and for the last few days, it won't actually report the time they're spending on particular games or apps. This is frustrating and not especially helpful when kids have limits on certain apps but the app won't track the time spent.
Mike Conley 28
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Needs better options to extend screen time without needing to change the standard schedule. 2 hours is not good enough. What would be best is to allow us to give an except for as long as we want. Winter break is a good example. My kids are out of school for two weeks. Being able to set an except to screen time from datetime to datetime would be ideal.
A Google user 163
Monday, April 11, 2022
You can set all of your child's preferences but can't go into your own profile to change things like screentime limits or communication restrictions. I also had trouble because it didn't list all of the profiles on my console. I wish it had a remote setting to power down the console but I don't know if that one is out of reach. I would highly appreciate the ability to do that though!
Josh 100
Thursday, January 5, 2023
A surprisingly bad app that really shouldn't exist. The phrase "disjointed experience" comes to mind when using this app. A third of the time, it takes you to the Xbox website to complete changes, a third of the time your Microsoft account (again, via the website)... and the 2nd star is for the last third where you can actually make changes in the app. Again though, this app shouldn't exist. There's 3 separate apps. Xbox, Xbox Family, and Xbox Game Pass. Like I said, disjointed experience.
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