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Ignore alerts for a particular user, group, song, or subscription

Silence future alerts from specific contacts, group chats, songs, or YouTube subscriptions without turning off monitoring entirely.

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Bark lets you customize your alert sensitivity settings, and you can also silence future alerts for specific users, group chats, songs, or subscriptions.

Common use cases:

  • Grandparent conversations: Stop getting alerts from your child's texts with a grandparent you're not concerned about.

  • Family group chats: If you're in a shared group text with your kids, you can stop Bark from alerting you to messages you've already seen.

  • Songs with sensitive lyrics: If a song triggers alerts but you're not concerned about it, you can ignore future alerts for that song.

  • YouTube game channels: Some video game channels depict weapons or violence that may not concern you. Ignore future alerts from that channel.


Ignore future alerts for a user, group, subscription, or song

  1. Open up your parent app / dashboard.

  2. Tap 🔔 the bell at the top right to view your family's alerts.

  3. Tap on the alert that you'd like to ignore going forward (we have sorting filters to help you find the alert if needed).

  4. Tap the Ignore Alert crossed-out bell at the top.

  5. Going forward, Bark will no longer alert you to issues with that user, group, song, or subscription (unless it is a severe issue).


View or delete an ignored user, group, subscription, or song

  1. Open up your parent app / dashboard.

  2. Tap on your child's profile.

  3. Scroll down and tap Want fewer alerts?

  4. Tap Ignored alerts at the top or scroll all the way down.

  5. Tap Trashcanthe trashcan next to the applicable user, group, or subscription. From now on, Bark will alert you to issues with that user, group, or subscription.

    Ignored Alerts
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