Katherine

So what's going on?

So I have a teenager daughter that has an Apple iPhone, and I have been trying to navigate the best apps to protect her, keep her safe, give me notifications, etc.

And we initially used the Bark app.

And as we started the process, one of the conditions to us using the Bark app was that it required a laptop or a desktop monitor that her phone has to constantly connect through using the Wi-Fi to update.

So I was never getting anything real-time if she was out of town or gone away for a couple days.

I wasn't getting updates at all, and it wasn't giving me, like, immediate feedback, and it never seemed to be working.

So we nixed that program.

It did have some positives to it, but one of the negatives as well that we realized is when she was going into the Safari using the iOS system, their program did not block anything.

She could go into the Safari browser.

Yes.

And I tested it and I was able to go into my teenage daughter's phone and look up anything I wanted to look up with no blockups, nothing saying, no, you can't access this.

And I was like, well, that's the whole point of the application is to protect her so she can't Google something or something pop up or her see something that she wasn't supposed to see.

and so that was one of the issues and then also i wasn't getting updated notifications of the content or the bullying or the texts or anything of that nature because she wasn't connecting because we don't have a desktop browser we have laptops that connect to wi-fi and so it wasn't constantly running so it wasn't giving us any updates or feedback so what what was she doing what is she doing that you're trying to figure out i mean do you just do you want to know where she is what she's doing you want to block some apps i mean

I want to monitor who she's communicating with and what's being communicated with.

I caught her a couple months ago communicating through an application and eventually getting phone numbers and texting random strangers on the Internet.

No.

Yes.

And so, of course, she lied to me initially and was like, no, they weren't random strangers.

They were somebody I met through this friend.

And so initially I was like, OK, you're talking to somebody that is a friend of a friend.