Bark for Families
Our subscriptions for families include unlimited kids and unlimited devices. Learn more about our digital safety features with these articles!
FAQs
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How does Bark help families in a tech world?
Bark is a comprehensive parental intelligence solution. Below are a few ways we can help keep your family ...
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What is the Bark Phone™️?
The Bark Phone™️ is the first of its kind. With Bark's Premium features built into the phone and the abilit...
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Getting Started with Bark
NOTE: This article covers the first-time setup under the Bark Premium subscription plan. Bark is an award-w...
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Find Your Carrier Porting / Number Transfer Information
This article will help you find the account number and PIN for most carriers in the United States. If your ...
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Number Porting / Number Transfers
Background The Bark Phone™ comes bundled with wireless service provided by Bark itself. As part of the setu...
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How do I log into my Bark account?
Families If you are a parent/guardian, you can review your children's alerts by logging in with your accou...
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iOS Monitoring
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How to Monitor an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch
NOTE: This article is for subscribers on the Bark Premium plan. To set up an iOS device on the Bark Jr plan...
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How to Monitor iOS Devices with the Bark Home
NOTE: This article is for subscribers on the Bark Premium plan that have already paired a Bark Home to thei...
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Recommended Sleep/Wake Settings for Mac
The Bark Desktop App is set to automatically analyze your child's iOS device texts, photos, and more when i...
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Recommended Sleep/Wake Settings for Windows
The Bark Desktop App is set to automatically analyze your child's iOS device texts, photos, and more when i...
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How to Kick-Start an iOS Analysis
Bark runs an automatic analysis of your child's iPhone or iPad whenever it's been longer than 6 hours since...
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Desktop Application Download
Download the latest version of the Bark Desktop Application, the program that allows you to monitor your ch...
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Android & Amazon Fire Monitoring
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How to Monitor an Android Device
Get Started We're proud to be able to cover the most devices and platforms on the market. Due to our compre...
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How To Set Up the Bark Phone™
The Bark Phone™ is our brand new all-in-one solution. This article discusses the initial setup process. If ...
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Managing Rules for the Bark Phone™
Background The Bark Phone™️ delivers even more tools to the existing Bark Premium experience that has made ...
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Transferring Contacts and Media
If you are going from a different smartphone to a Bark Phone™, you may be wondering about the best method t...
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How to Monitor Other Android Phones & Tablets
This article is for compatible Android devices on the Bark Premium plan. For monitoring Android devices on ...
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How to Monitor an Amazon Fire Tablet
This article is for Bark Premium subscribers. If you'd like to set up screen time & web filtering on an Ama...
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Account Management
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How to Add a Child or Home Profile
One of the great features of Bark is that you can add as many profiles and devices as you like to your Bark...
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How to Monitor Accounts and Devices
Connecting Accounts and Devices for Monitoring You get an unlimited number of apps and devices you can moni...
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Notifications / Alert Settings
We built Bark to help families work with their children to stay safe online, and we are excited to provide ...
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Adjust the Sensitivity of Monitoring Alerts
We completely understand that there are instances where you may not be concerned about certain things such ...
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Parent/Guardian App
Managing your Bark account from your phone is easier than ever with our parent/guardian apps available for ...
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Referral Program
If you believe in Bark, take a moment to tell your friends — it could change their lives. For every person ...
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Screen Time & Web Filtering
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Managing Screen Time & Web Filtering Rules
To learn more about Bark's Screen Time & Web Filtering, click here. Overview You can find the following top...
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How to Allow an App or Site
Before your rules can take effect on the applicable device, make sure that you've set up mobile or in-home ...
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How to Block an App or Site
Before your rules can take effect on the applicable device, make sure that you've set up mobile or in-home ...
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About SafeSearch & Youtube Restricted Mode
How to Manage SafeSearch in Bark Within the screen time & filtering rules, you have the ability to enforce ...
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How to Pause the Internet for a Profile
Background Bark was created with the needs of parenting in a tech world in mind. We recognize there are tim...
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How to Test Screen Time & Web Filtering Rules
While you can see the status of screen time & filtering in the Screen Time > Devices section of a child's p...
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Social Media and Email Monitoring
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How to Connect a Yahoo Email Account
Bark is able to monitor emails sent and received (including attachments) on connected email accounts like Y...
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How to Connect an iCloud Email Account
Bark is able to monitor emails sent and received (including attachments) on connected email accounts like i...
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Social Media, Drive, & Email Troubleshooting
This article discusses troubleshooting solutions for issues encountered while adding a social media, email,...
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Computer Monitoring
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How to Set Up Bark on a Computer
What is monitored? If you are on the Premium plan, your child's connected email and social media, like Twit...
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How to Monitor Google Chrome on Computers
This article is for users on the Bark Premium subscription plan. If you'd like to set up screen time & web ...
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How to Monitor Microsoft Edge on Computers
This article is for Bark Premium subscribers. If you'd like to set up screen time & web filtering on a comp...
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How to Monitor a Chromebook
Before Getting Started There are two parts to monitoring Chromebooks, listed below as Part A and Part B. We...
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Accessibility Disabled for Chromebook
This article is for compatible Chromebooks on the Bark Premium and Bark Jr plans. In order for the Bark for...
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Updating the Bark for Chromebooks App
Bark periodically updates the app to ensure your child's device remains protected. Make sure that you have ...
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Troubleshooting Android & Amazon Fire
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Troubleshooting the Bark Phone™
First-Time Activation When first setting up your Bark Phone, you'll have to do some minimal amount of work ...
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Can I use Google Family Link to supervise a Bark Phone™️?
When you compare Google Family Link's tools against Bark's, the Bark Phone™️ comes with more tools for mana...
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Does the Bark Phone™ have expandable memory?
Yes! The Bark Phone™ supports adding an SD card to expand the internal memory of the phone. Don't worry, we...
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Error on Google Play: "Parental controls restrict downloading of this app"
Example Instructions If you encounter this message when attempting to install an app on your child's Andro...
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Troubleshooting Android Device Monitoring
This article discusses troubleshooting solutions for issues encountered with monitoring the content of Andr...
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Troubleshooting Amazon Fire Monitoring
This article discusses troubleshooting solutions for issues encountered with monitoring the content of Amaz...
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Troubleshooting iOS
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Troubleshooting iOS Device Monitoring
This article discusses troubleshooting solutions for issues encountered with monitoring the content of iOS ...
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Update the Bark Desktop App
Bark is committed to constantly adding new features and ways to make monitoring your children's devices eas...
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Update the Bark Desktop App (Mac)
Bark is committed to constantly adding new features and ways to make monitoring your children's devices eas...
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Update the Bark Desktop App (Windows)
Bark is committed to constantly adding new features and ways to make monitoring your children's devices eas...
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Update Apple Software on Windows
Families occasionally get an alert asking them update their computers with Apple software. These updates wi...
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Update Apple Software on Mac
Families occasionally get an alert asking them update their computers with Apple software. These updates wi...
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Location Features
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Calibrate Location on the Bark Phone™
Bark Phone™ If your child's location alerts or check-ins are showing your child's location as farther awa...
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Location Alerts
No more having to open a map app to see where your kid is — we’ll automatically alert you when they arrive ...
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Calibrate Location
Check-Ins and location alerts are two of Bark's location features. Both require the Bark Kids app to be ins...
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Calibrate Location on iOS
iOS (Apple) To calibrate the GPS on your child's iOS device, please see the instructions below: Calibra...
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Calibrate Location on Android
Android To calibrate the GPS on your child's Android device, please see the instructions below: Calibra...
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What are check-ins?
Check-Ins are a great addition to Bark to minimize the number of text messages we might exchange with our k...
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