This article will discuss the default home profiles that are included with your account when you set up a Bark Home or router with Bark built-in.

You can also create new profiles to further organize your devices and their rules.

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Newly detected devices are assigned to the Unmanaged profile by default. If you also have the Bark parent app installed, you'll get a push notification about the new device being discovered:

Unmanaged devices get the following baseline level of protection:

To block more apps and sites, you should re-assign Unmanaged devices to a different profile.

Devices that you don't want filtered at all should instead be assigned to the Ignored profile.

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If there's a device you don't want to filter, assign it to Ignored. Parents and guardians will often ignore their personal phones, for example.

Best Practices

To prevent issues with your internet speeds, we suggest assigning the following types of devices to Ignored as well:

How to stop ignoring a device

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Assign family computers, shared Xboxes, and living room Smart TVs to Shared. Customize which apps and sites are blocked for those devices.

If you want to target a specific device for custom rules that don't apply to all other shared devices, you can create a custom home profile.

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You can also assign devices to the Guest profile and customize which apps and sites are blocked for those devices.

If you'd like guests to have unfiltered access to the internet, assign their devices to the Ignored profile instead.

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Because each family has different needs, we offer the flexibility to create custom profiles.

Create a custom profile

Customize blocked apps and screen time schedules