Accessibility Disabled in Android

Updated May 01, 2025 16:59

Paola Rivera

The Bark Kids app needs Accessibility enabled in your kid's settings to be fully set up.

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 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 Kids app again.
Tap ⚙️ Settings:

On the Bark Jr subscription?
You can skip this step!
Tap Test Monitoring.

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.

Monitoring should have resumed. Here's how to check it:

There's a few reasons that could be happening. Let's get it fixed up!