The Best Kid's Phone for Families: The Bark Phone
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- čas přidán 30. 10. 2022
- Looking for the best kid's phone on the market? The Bark Phone has you covered. In this video, Bark CMO Titania Jordan sits down with CTO Brandon Hilkert to talk about why the Bark Phone is a safer option for families looking to help protect their kids from digital dangers.
This phone for kids is an absolute game-changer when it comes to online safety, and gives parents unprecedented control over a child’s online experience. The device itself is a Samsung A14 that comes with Bark built in as well as robust parental controls like GPS-powered location tracking, app management, call blocking, and more. Bark can’t be deleted, and the parental controls are completely customizable so it grows with your child.
The best part of the Bark Phone? With no childlike design or Bark logos, it doesn’t look like a kid’s phone, so teens and tweens will be excited to use it. The Bark Phone starts at $39/month. Order yours today: www.bark.us/bark-phone/
Check out Brandon’s Parenting in a Tech World post with questions and answers about the Bark Phone here: info.bark.us/pitwfbpost - Věda a technologie
I wish you had this phone a month ago.
I am using Bark for my granddaughter.
I've seen the PROBLEMS with cell phones via my children.
Thank you. This is long overdue.
We love Bark, it has been great for our family keeping our daughter safe online and keepiing her from seeing innapropriate content.
Recently she disabled it on her phone and my husband and me both got notifications quick, we went to our daughter immediately, turns out she had dissbled it because she wanted to watch southpark and family guy epidodes aswell as movies like Smile, The boogeyeman and Ted, nope!
Luckily my husband and me got there befeore she could see anything innapropriate.
We are so grateful to Bark for protecting our little girl from online dangers and protecting her innocence from innapropriate content! We love Bark!❤
We're here for you and your family! Thank you for sharing 💙
My work with college students and young ministers struggling with porn addictions has led me to be a megaphone for y’all’s services to parents with young kids. Keep it up!
We appreciate your support! 💚
We are currently using an Apple watch for our soon to be 13 year old son. We plan to let him start using a phone fairly soon. We will be faced with the dilemma of what to do with the watch, since it is linked to my iPhone but he has his own number he has been using for texting and calling with the watch. We liked the watch as a bridge to the phone since it offered a more limited range of services but allowed an introduction to texting/calling. It also was easier to keep up with. We have another child we are getting ready to do the same thing with-start with watch and move to phone after about a year. Any chance Bark will work on a watch to pair with the phone? I would love to be able to use both!
We appreciate your feedback, Louise! We're always working hard to expand our service and what products we offer to parents! 💚
I currently have pinwheel phones for my two kids. I love that I can turn off picture texting. Will the bark have the same? I also miss being able to locate the phone as quickly as I could with iPhone. Pinwheel takes sometimes 5 min or more to locate. Will this be faster on the Bark?
Hi Liz! Thanks for your interest! We do monitor text messages, photos and videos, web browsing (including incognito browsing), and many installed apps for worrisome content; however, the Bark Phone settings will not prevent a child from sending or receiving images or videos on the device. Here’s a detailed list of all we monitor: info.bark.us/monitored.
In case it helps, parents will also have the ability to disable the camera, which will prevent the child from screen captures in any program on the device.
The Bark Phone will include GPS powered location tracking (which the parent will be able to view real-time on a map) with the ability to “ping” the phone’s current location, as well as Bark’s Location alerts. Learn more about those here: info.bark.us/locations.
I hope that helps! Please don’t hesitate to reach out to our support team anytime at help@bark.us! 💜
Will the protections on this phone work when not using home wifi? Also, if the kids are on CZcams, will this phone prevent access to any inappropriate content on CZcams?
Hi Brian! Great questions! Yes, the screen time & web filtering settings will be in place whether your child is on WiFi or Cellular data (just as it is with the current tools).
Specifically for CZcams-
With our screen time and web filtering service, parents have the ability to enable CZcams Restricted mode, as well as the ability to block CZcams entirely (or customize schedules to limit access), should this be your preference.
More on these features: info.bark.us/what-is-screentime
And how to manage them: info.bark.us/managing-rules
Unfortunately, there is not a way to filter the content within CZcams. If you think of CZcams as a “House”, and you allow your child access to the “House”, that unfortunately, includes all of the rooms within the House (even the inappropriate ones that feel like they should only be for adults). Bark can “lock the House” and keep them entirely out of CZcams, but if you let them “in the House”, all rooms are open. It’s the same for any web filtering service. We wish these platforms did a better job of providing parental settings “within the House” for kids, but they do not. 😔
In case it helps- On the Bark Phone, we can also monitor & alert you to concerning issues on the CZcams videos your child posts, comments made to those videos, and new videos posted to your child's user and channel subscriptions. Your child must have a connected CZcams account for us to be able to monitor this activity. In addition, CZcams views and searches (including incognito mode) can be monitored without a CZcams account.
support.bark.us/hc/en-us/articles/360049966112
And a detailed list of all we monitor on Androids:
info.bark.us/monitored-android
We hope this helps to answer your questions. Please feel free to reach out to our support team at >> info.bark.us/contact anytime. 💜 We’d love to chat further and help.
What will the price be ? I can only find the cost to reserve my pre-order and what model phone EXACTLY is the phone going to be ? Will cases / screensavers be available & will it be 4 or 5G ?
Bark Phone plans start at $49/month (plus any required taxes) with no contract required. We have three monthly data options to fit your family’s needs:
$49/month for unlimited talk, text, and Wi-Fi (no data*)
$59/month for unlimited talk, text, and 4GB data
$69/month for unlimited talk, text, and 8GB data
*The (Wifi) plan has just enough data for the phone to communicate back to us. To be clear, it's not Wifi-only, it'll have unlimited talk and text (Cellular).
Here’s what’s included with your Bark Phone:
★ No contract required. Cancel anytime.
★ Bark Phone with USB-C charging cord
★ Comes with a family subscription to Bark Premium; including all other devices and accounts in your household
★ Includes exclusive Bark Phone features like location tracking, remote phone lock, and more
★ Protective case
★ Unlimited talk and text with data plans that fit your family’s needs
★ Free shipping
★ A data plan that fits your family’s needs; starting at $ 49 USD /mo (plus any required taxes)
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No, a screen protector won’t be included right now.
@@BarkTechnologies Is it essentially renting a phone and paying for cell service, like if we purchase it/end up not liking the setup, do we cancel and return the device?
Does the phone automatically block inappropriate text messages/images/websites, or does it just notify you after the content has already been viewed/interacted with?
It appears the hardware costs are built into the plan. What happens when the screen breaks, as it is likely to do a few times a year at this rate with my teen...
Hi Jason! There will be an insurance-like deductible to cover damages (as long as the protective case has been used). We'll have more info on this program coming shortly.
Is there any where to watch a video of the actual phone and demoing it? What apps can be downloaded on to the phone?
We'll be putting out more content; stay tuned! The Bark Phone™ will be a Samsung A13, and can have access to whatever you choose and whenever you choose! It will have the Play Store, and you can approve whichever apps you'd like for your child to access. You can also set how long they may use them and during what hours. If you want it to only access approved contacts for phone calls only, so be it! :) This phone can grow with your family's needs. Apart from having the Bark Kids app installed, it will appear as any other normal Samsung -- it will not have a "kiddie" interface at all. We're excited to help keep even more kids safer! 💛
do you have a date for when it drops? my mom is getting my sister and i each one of these phones, and i'm totally alright with it since i have nothing to hide lol. my little sister is very excited to get her first phone and keeps asking when she will have it. if you don't have an answer that's okay!!! Update: I have it now and it's great! Thanks!
Hi there! The Bark Phone is available now! Your parent can order the phone at www.bark.us/bark-phone (Orders placed now are guaranteed to ship by mid-December, just in time for Christmas).🎁 Please let our team know if you have any additional questions! 😃 www.bark.us/contact
What's the SAR rating? Is there a proton mail app?
Hey Jake! The Bark Phone™ is a Samsung A13! 😃 Maybe this link will help you: www.samsung.com/sar/sarMain/
As far as apps, The Bark Phone™ gives you full control over the apps your kids can access. You can block every app that a Samsung A13 could download, or you can allow them all - or somewhere in between!
I see there are three different monthly plans. How much is the phone itself?
Hi! There is no cost for the phone itself-You pay monthly until you don't want the phone/service, & then return it. There is no catch! We agree that it’s a little different, but like our current pricing for Bark, we’ve tried to keep it simple, & we’re hoping to do the same here. 💙
Feel free to reach out to our support team at help@bark.us or info.bark.us/contact if you have additional questions. We are always happy to chat!
Does it automatically come in cellular data even that was not on the bark plan?
Hi there! More details about the various plans available can be found here: bark.us/bark-phone 💙
Does it monitor chats within apps such as instagram or apps like snapchat where content normally disappears or can easily be deleted?
Hi Sara! Here's the complete list of all that we monitor: info.bark.us/monitored-android 💚
@bark .. I would also like to know the answer to Sarah question.. your link doesn’t clearly say about snap chat.. can you see Snapchat communication before it gets deleted?
If an unknown caller is calling, sill Bark block and keep it from coming through, for example, sale calls
"sill" ? Also that's a very standard feature of any half decent smart phone. I know Samsung phones have had it for years and years. The unlocked versions (not purchased through a carrier) come with the "Hiya" software integrated into the OS to auto detect scam/spam/robocalls and called ID for numbers you don't have saved. The carriers have Samsung take it out so they can sell you their monthly sub service that dose the same thing (And in some cases is just basically a reskinned "Hiya" app). Thankfully its very easy to take a Samsung you bought from the carrier (so you can still pay it off monthly interest free) and flash the unlocked firmware with all the features (and none of awful bloatware apps the carriers have Samsung put on).
I currently have the Bark premium app but it does not send me notifications for text messages unless I hook the phone up to my computer. My main reason for getting theBark app was to screen text messages. We have a laptop so it does not stay on at all times. Will this phone screen text messages without the desktop app like bark premium?
Maybe check your settings? I get alerts all the time via alerts that pop up on my lock screen to check my bark notifications because some thing has been flagged. It’s all normally innocent but I do get the alerts
Hey Cassandra! 👋 We're sorry to hear you're having some trouble! In order to monitor iOS devices (and due to Apple restrictions), iOS analyses happen automatically & wirelessly about every 6 hours when your child's device is *home* and on the *same WiFi network* as your *powered on* PC/Mac with the Bark Desktop program *running* (recommended daily). You can also use Bark Home to monitor iOS devices if that's a better option for you:
support.bark.us/hc/en-us/articles/5715479538829
In answer to your question, yes! The Bark Phone will allow continuous monitoring of text messages without the requirement of another device for analyses. 👊 Lots of info can be found here:
bark.us/bark-phone
Our support team would be happy to chat with you further and answer any questions at >> info.bark.us/contact. Please don't hesitate to reach out! 💜
If I’m reading this correctly I think it’s not sending notifications because the computer is not constantly on with the desktop program running. So it seems like the bark home would be our solution to that problem. Is that correct?
If we purchase the phone, will we still need the bark home or desktop program to get the notifications?
Hi again! Our support team (help@bark.us) would need access to your account to confirm whether that is the case regarding your iOS monitoring analyses and your computer. (✨ Please do reach out if you need help with this!)
The Bark Home does offer an alternative solution (in lieu of a computer for iOS monitoring), as well as our screen time & web filtering tools for devices connected to your in-home network (think computers, SmartTVs, gaming consoles & more). If you have any Apple devices in your home that you'd like *monitored* for concerning issues (including iPads, etc.), then you will still need either a computer or the Bark Home for those analyses.
The Bark Phone will not require any other device for monitoring or screen time & web filtering. It's all included on the device. Happy to chat further at help@bark.us. 💜
Does Bark allow to return your the phone if you don’t want to pay monthly anymore?
Hi there! No contract is required, and you can cancel any time by simply returning the phone. 💙
I have bark monitoring and it sucks. My son has an iphone. It doesn't monitor the web browser.... or if it does... it's confusing to set up. It doesn't monitor his instagram. What am i doing wrong? Will this be better on the phone?
Hi there! Ohh no! We'd love to connect to best help you with this. Please reach our friendly team at bark.us/contact. We are here for your family! 💙
Is there a cell tower coverage map available for the bark phone?
Hi Casandra! We'll be uploading coverage maps in the near future. Keep an eye on bark.us/bark-phone for that information as it becomes available. 💚
You use t-mobile right? I'm guessing so since you mention that phones that support the 600MHz band will work best.
You use t-mobile right? I'm guessing so since you mention that phones that support the 600MHz band will work best.
What if your child exceeds the purchased data? Will it allow that, and will there be additional charges for that? (🙋♀Millennial here that grew up in the first days of cell phone data when we were all exceeding data and getting in trouble!! 😂)
Hi there! Thank you for reaching out! Parents will be alerted that they are nearing their selected plan’s data limit. If all available data is used in a billing period, the new data balance will be available for use starting with the next billing period. Families who decide that they may need additional data will have the opportunity to upgrade to a higher plan (from no data to 4GB or from 4GB to 8GB currently offered). 💙
@@BarkTechnologies so from what I'm reading, the data will just shut off when the data has been used. There is no way of being charged more unless, as a parent, I agree to upgrade for the month to more data. Is that correct?
Does the LTE make the service work anywhere?
Hi there! You can check coverage at www.bark.us/bark-phone 😁
Last I knew, iPhone doesn't allow a backdoor for Bark to control things away from your home's wifi, so kids aren't protected outside of the home....so let me get this straight.....Titania, the chief parenting officer of Bark, admitted that her son is 13 and has an iPhone and that she is Jealous of the opportunity of the CTO getting to use this new phone on his younger kids and acts as if her son is too old and it's too late to switch him over or something. Am I hearing that the chief parenting officer of this company doesn't even use this software for her own kid because she lets him have an iPhone and doesn't want to switch him to android or a bark phone? What on earth? How can you advocate for a company that you don't even use with your own kids? Bark is wonderful! Be willing to tell your kid they can't have an iPhone because they must have Bark for their own protection. I switched my son from iPhone to android; of course, he wasn't happy, but I don't care. Safety comes first!
actually yes iphone does. bark works perfectly on our children's iPhone. you have to correctly set up a VPN
Hey Sasha - thanks for commenting and you are not hearing that correctly (or perhaps I did not communicate clearly!). I do use the Bark suite of products for my son, I am currently using the software on his iPhone, and you better believe we will be using the Bark Phone once it's available! What I'm jealous of is the fact that Brandon gets to embark on that first phone journey right from the start with his younger kids. My convo with my son (who is closer to 14 than 13) will not be as easy as it would have been when we first gave him a smartphone (which was an Android at the time). He lost it, so I gave him an old iPhone we had at home. Bring on the Bark Phone!
Wait so what if I have 2 children and I want to get two bark phones? Does that mean I would pay $100 per month or is it still $50 per month?
Hi there! There are not any family plans available for subscribing to multiple Bark Phones. You would be paying for 2 Bark Phones, total cost will depend on the plans you select. info.bark.us/bark-phone 💙
So the plan starts at $49. is there a separate cost for the phone? and its $49 per line?
Hi Gary! Thank you for reaching out! The monthly pricing includes the use of the Bark Phone, protective case, Bark’s Premium subscription (content monitoring and parental controls) that can also be used for any of your children's other compatible devices or accounts. Bark phone pricing is per device; we do not currently offer family plans. However, each Bark Phone does include a family Bark Premium subscription; you may utilize Bark Premium across all of your children's compatible devices and accounts to help keep them safer at no additional charge. Let us know how we may help at help@bark.us anytime! 💙
@@BarkTechnologies thanks. I'm thinking of switching my son to the bark phone. can I keep his current number?
Hello!
Is this phone was only created for kids 10 and under or for teenager too?
Because on the video you didn't mention about teenagers.
Thanks!
Hi! The Bark Phones is for children under the age of 18! 💚
Why not have it to where we can purchase the phone? I think the Bark phone is great but the downside is not being able to purchase the phone.
Hi Megan! Thank you for reaching out. Technology changes fast. This is why we feel a monthly "lease-like" is the best model. You pay monthly until you don't want the phone/service, and then return it. There is no catch! We agree that it’s a little different, but like our current pricing for Bark, we’ve tried to keep it simple, and we’re hoping to do the same here. Let us know how we may help at help@bark.us anytime! 💙
does this monitor if my child is sending inappropriate texts?
Absolutely! The Bark Phone monitors texts for things like cyberbullying, sexting, predation, profanity, drugs/alcohol, and more. Learn about the Bark Phone here -> info.bark.us/bark-phone 🧡
How will it compare to the Gab phone?
Compared to Gabb, it will be similar, but with more native controls and limits. The Bark Phone will have content monitoring that comes included with the purchase of a Bark Phone plan. Our advanced analysis engines are unrivaled. We are really good at detecting potential problems and way more advanced than the simple keyword detectors other services use. bark.us/bark-phone 💙
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How many GB does it come in?
Bark Phone™ plans start at $49/month (plus any required taxes) with no contract required. We have three monthly data options to fit your family’s needs:
$49/month for unlimited talk, text, and Wi-Fi (no data*)
$59/month for unlimited talk, text, and 4GB data
$69/month for unlimited talk, text, and 8GB data
*The (Wifi) plan has just enough data for the phone to communicate back to us. To be clear, it's not Wifi-only, it'll have unlimited talk and text (Cellular). 💚
You can have the same controls with iPhone screentime controls!!!!
Kids are circumventing iPhone screentime controls left and right and iPhone won't alert you when your child encounters dangerous content/people. Also, Bark's controls via Bark Phone are way more comprehensive and effective.
This would be great if it's 5G. My daughter's pinwheel phone with the bark app WAS fantastic until our service provider started phasing out their 4G coverage. Now it's hardly more useful than a brick
Hi Barry! 👋 We're sorry that happened. And yes, the Bark Phone IS great! 😉 Rest assured, that data and coverage for the Bark Phone will be fully supported by Bark. However, the Bark Phone is not 5G. More info & updates can be found at bark.us/bark-phone. 💜 Reach out anytime to >> info.bark.us/contact; our team is here to help!
What carrier in US has started phasing out LTE service? Maybe you meant 3G?
Also, your child probably has another phone you don't know about. Could be someone's old device. Prepaid service is cheap, and can be purchased over the counter. Hell the phone doesn't even have to have cellular service, with the right free apps it will be able to call and text as well as everything else over WiFi, including Hotspot from his/her friends phone(s).
Source= I'm into technology, and was a minor in the past, as it turns out.
Oh, you think you've got their PC locked down? Lol. Bootable live USB, Linux, Windows, whatever. Data can be encrypted, to levels where it's questionable if even the FBI could access it. All with plausible deniability (decoy password reveals decoy data, with no way to prove there's anything else there other than encrypted free space). It took me about a week after Dad brought home the "family PC" to be running circles around his "cybersitting" efforts.
Now, the fact that you can monitor your child's location, you can contact each other in an emergency, that's certainly a good thing. Probably a GOOD thing that these parental leash phones are a social stigmas (I'd assume) and are stashed out of sight, should someone try something evil. You'll both be glad that seconday phone that they probably have ends up being the decoy phone.
@@matt697845 "Oh, you think you've got their PC locked down? Lol. Bootable live USB, Linux, Windows, whatever. Data can be encrypted, to levels where it's questionable if even the FBI could access it. All with plausible deniability (decoy password reveals decoy data, with no way to prove there's anything else there other than encrypted free space)."
I know exactly what you are talking about. But people with that level of technical knowledge are not the norm. Not even close. Most people don't even know what Linux is let alone a live boot disc (well flash drive now a days), what truecrypt is (or the open-source fork can't remember the name, I switched to bitlocker). Do some "kids" (~12-13+) know about this stuff or some of it? Of course. Do most? Not even close. Can they still find ways to do things online without the parent/parents knowing? Yea. It will be more difficult for them most def though. Only having internet access (unmonitored and unfiltered) when another friend is over or outside the house is pretty limiting (if the parent is knowledgeable enough its extremely easy to control what devices connect to your network even if they know the password), but of course nothing is foolproof.
I don't have kids though and IDK how I'd feel about making them use a phone like this where they know I can read all their messages on everything etc. It has good intentions of course (monitoring for drug/alcohol use, suicidal warnings, bullying, online predators etc). I would have hated having zero privacy as a kid. IDK, it's complicated and a balancing act.
At the very least you need to talk to and educate your child about the very real dangers online. Esp sexual predators on tiktok, instagram etc. Heck some kid (we're pretty sure) created a throw away instagram account to post two pics of two different girls at my niece's school. They were 13-14 years old and the pictures were VERY sexually graphic and had insulting hateful text overlayed on top. They were obviously taken by the girls to send to a boyfriend (probably a ex). They didn't think about how that 13-14 year old boy you are dating now will have the pictures forever. Anyways it took Instagram about a week to even take it down despite me reporting it multiple times to them through official channels, twitter, filing a report with the center for exploited children etc.
Can we keep our child's existing phone number?
Thanks for your interest, Tiffany! We won’t have any incoming or outgoing number transfers available at launch. Stay tuned for any updates to this and more at bark.us/bark-phone, or reach out to help@bark.us anytime! 💜
Any update on this?
"tamper proof" yeah, no. it goes through email. get the email, get full access to all control including removing it. easy peasy. (have done it before with this phone. do better)
Thanks for your feedback! The Bark Phone was just released last month, and it doesn't quite work that way. 😉 The Bark Phone is even so tamper-proof that it prevents kids from using Safe Mode-- even if they factory reset the phone, you will still have Bark automatically put in place. 💜 We're happy to chat anytime: > info.bark.us/contact
Can you download games?
Hi Faith! Absolutely! Any app in the Google Play Store that is compatible with the Samsung A13 can be added if parents wish. 💙
Nice. Can you choose the gigabytes? Or does it only come in 64GB?
I don’t like this phone
We'd love to hear your concerns about the Bark Phone! Reach out anytime at help@bark.us with questions or feedback! 🙂