Family safety: Feedback on recent changes to multi-device management

Anonymous
2015-04-22T12:54:35+00:00

Put simply, it's unacceptable.

For my child, why would I want to have to manage completely different sets of limits, curfew, blocked/allowed games, allowed ratings, etc for every device to which they log in?

This needs to go back to the old way where the child's account spanned all devices to which they've logged in.

Furthermore, when attempting to manage this new format, here's what I see in my Family Safety area:

How is this helpful at all? Nowhere on this screen do I know the device for which I'm altering the settings. If I click another instance of my child's name, I have no idea which device that is going to either.

I also have a sneaking suspicion this recent change is what is causing so many parents to have settings not taking effect, etc. They're probably altering the settings for the wrong device (because they have no clue where they're at in the system and I don't blame them) or the backend is simply doing things wrong.

Please fix this.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-09-16T02:04:46+00:00

    Its amazing that you can't block Microsoft Edge for family members.  For this reason I wont let them use the Surface until someone finds a solution , maybe 3rd party, since Microsoft let me down again.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-16T04:22:49+00:00

    I've been trying to figure out how this is possible. Can somebody please enlighten me:

    To spell it out, my child's limited to 2 or 3 hr of screen time per day. Yet, as you can see by the FS reports, he's been on FAR more than that.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-16T16:56:10+00:00

    The screen time only works randomly. I have had the same problem, regardless of what settings I use, sometimes my kids can use the computer all day.

    By default we have it set to "blocked all day", and we manually use the "add time" feature to give them time if they have behaved, done homework etc.

    This is really a major screwup that this is completely unreliable, it causes us untold problems, allows our kids to break the rules and order we have setup.

    Not to mention the fact that the ability to "add time" has been removed on Windows 10 entirely, so we cannot upgrade any of the kids computers.

    If the screentime only works randomly, you have to assume everything else is not reliable either, and they can probably use apps and access adult websites too. So you need to test this on a daily basis at the moment.

    It is beyond a joke.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-09-22T10:39:59+00:00

    My teenager discovered that he can start YouTube streaming audio and then select Switch User, but not select a user.   Then the audio continues to play, but it doesn't count against his screen time.  That in and of itself isn't necessarily bad because it's essentially no different than having music playing (old days: radio) while you do your homework.   But when he's reached his end-of-day curfew, he can't login, but the stream continues to play.

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