The Bark Kids app needs Accessibility enabled in your kid's settings to be fully set up.
Quick Alternative
Quick Steps
Open the
Bark Kids app on your kid's Android or Bark Phone.
Tap Accessibility on the checklist.
Under Services, Installed Services, or Installed Apps, tap Bark and turn it on:
Getting an error?
Devices with Android 13+ will need to do it this way: Open the Settings app > Apps > Bark > three dot menu on top right and tap on Allow restricted settings. If you don’t see the three-dot menu, try triggering the Accessibility error again and it should appear after that.Open the
Bark Kids app again.
Tap ⚙️ Settings:
On the Bark Jr subscription?
You can skip this step!Tap Test Monitoring.
Alternative Steps
On your kid's Android, open the ⚙ Settings app.
Tap Accessibility.
Under Services, Installed Services, or Installed Apps,
tap Bark and turn it on:
Getting an error?
Devices with Android 13+ will need to do it this way: Open the Settings app Apps Bark three dot menu on top right tap on Allow restricted settings. Then, open the Settings app again Accessibility turn on Bark. If you don’t see the three-dot menu, try triggering the Accessibility error again—it should appear after that.Open the
Bark for Kids app.
Wait: mine doesn't look like that.
Then you've opened the wrong app — make sure you’ve downloaded the correct app.Tap ⚙️ Settings:
On the Bark Jr subscription?
You can skip this step.Tap Test Monitoring.
That's it! 🎉
Monitoring should have resumed. Here's how to check it:
Open up your parent app / dashboard.
Tap on your kid's profile.
Tap Devices.
Look for a green checkmark:
Accessibility continues to get disabled
There's a few reasons that could be happening. Let's get it fixed up!
Need more help?
Check out our Android Troubleshooting Guide.