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The Bark Desktop App for Windows and Mac helps you monitor your child’s iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch for issues found in texts, photos, vid...

Connect the Bark Desktop App to your account

You have three ways to monitor your kid's iOS device. Once set up, you'll get alerts in your parent app if we find issues in their texts, ...

How to Monitor an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch

By default, Bark analyzes your child's iOS device every 3–6 hours depending on your setup. If you'd rather not wait, you can manually trig...

How to prompt Bark to analyze an iOS device whenever you want

If you're using the Bark Desktop App to monitor iPhone and iPad texts, photos, and videos, leave your computer on as much as possible. Thi...

Do I need to leave my computer on to monitor iOS?

Add the Safari extension to your kid's iPhone or iPad
On your kid's device, install  Bark Kids from the  App Store.
Open the Bark Kids app...

How to Monitor Safari Browsing on iOS

Allow or Block Safari
If your kid doesn’t have the Safari app, you may have blocked it through Apple’s Screen Time.


Open  Settings and t...

Allow or Block Safari

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Monitoring iOS Devices
Apple is strict when it comes to security and doesn’t allow third-party solutions (like Bark) dir...

How to Monitor iOS Devices with the Bark Desktop App

This article will show the recommended sleep settings on your Mac to ensure your child's iOS device continues to be monitored as often as ...

Recommended Sleep Settings for Mac

This article will show how to set up the recommended sleep settings on your Windows computer to ensure your child's iOS device continues t...

Recommended Sleep Settings for Windows

Keep your computer awake so Bark can monitor your child's iOS device. Select your computer type to get started:Mac Windows Prefer a simple...

Prevent your computer from going to sleep

The Bark Sync has one LED light at the top:It can tell us important things about the state of your Bark Sync. Some lights are a steady col...

LED Lights on the Bark Sync

How to Monitor iOS Devices with the Bark Sync

Learn how to set up iOS devices for monitoring to get alerts on bullying, depression, sexual content, and more in your kid’s texts, photos, and videos.

iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch monitoring

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