Verizon Family Companion Reviews

by Chentyboi

When the people first created, they sat their in their chairs wondering, “Soooo... how can we find ways to make a child’s life so horrible, so they can’t enjoy life.” I’m a 16, almost 17 year old, and have had this for a while. I can’t do anything anymore, I can’t do the crazy things that any normal teenage wants to do. In my own opinion, I just think this is beyond hypocritical, because parents have done the same stupid things that we have and are going to do. They should expect it. Yeah, they should punish kids for sneak out really late, or going somewhere that they weren’t supposed to go, but what are they going to do, ground you for the rest of your life? With me, and possible so many others, VerizonFamilyCompanion will prevent people from ever having a social life. Parents don’t want you getting food late at night? No more going to friends house to spend the night. Friends having a party, but your parents think something bad might happen? No more parties for you. VerizonFamilyCompanion slowly tears a gap in the child’s social life, which can to depression. It’s an amazing thing really, seeing how a parent is capable doing things like this to their child. SO WHATEVER TOU DO, DONT DOWNLOAD VerizonFamilyCompanion. IF YOU HAVE NO CONTROL AND HAVE IT ANYWAY, FIND WAYS AROUND THE SYSTEM.

by A Sad Child From This App

Dear parents, we want to feel trusted and independent as we go into our teen years. When you give us a phone, you trust us to do the right thing, which is why you wait for so long. Then, you put VerizonFamilyCompanion on our phone making us feel like you don’t trust us to do the right thing. We feel like we are being watched all the time (which we are) and that we can’t do anything right. It makes us feel like we are bad kids, when really we just want to explore the world. How do you expect us to go into the real world not knowing anything because of the limits VerizonFamilyCompanion gives us. We need to explore the internet, not just be limited to to other things that will not be as beneficial. When my parents installed VerizonFamilyCompanion on my phone, it felt as though I couldn’t do anything whatsoever. I feel untrusted and like I’m a bad person, when really I take classes that are two years ahead of my grade level and end up getting an A in them. It makes no sense why parents feel the need to watch everything their teen does when really the teen does nothing wrong. Sorry this was so long but in conclusion, I feel untrusted and like I’m missing things that other children are not, the internet.

Sincerely, a very sad child

by NorthernMoon

If I could rate this Zero I would! To all those parents who say it’s great and it’s just kids and teens complaining I can tell you that they obviously know more than you!! Short Story: At my school everyone had a phone it was 5th grade and they were really rude to me being all like “What’s your phone number.. oh WAIT you don’t have one” OR “When will you EVER get a phone!” They were RUDE but finally when I was going into 6th grade I got one I was happy with what I got but then I got VerizonFamilyCompanion you have no control whatsoever it takes me 10 minutes to install ONE app and it takes forever to have it approved! It can ruin relationships And makes kids feel they can’t be trusted. And don’t even get me started on SCREEN TIME!!! I’m only allowed to have 10 yes 10 contacts. And my parents are all like “well it’s not like you will need more!” Just to get it straight I have 4 grandparents 10 aunts 8 uncles 8+blood cousins 2 boy friends ( not dating just friends) 4 girl friends (just friends) 1 brother 2 parents...need I go on.... that’s about 36 people plus I have more than what I said I’m just estimating... And to all of you like well you don’t need all of them in your contacts BUT 39 people 39! ANYWAY I could go ON but I won’t this review has gotten too long so I’ll save you time.

by The One And Only App Critic

I agree with all the other negative reviews. Whoever made this up must’ve had an insane amount of trust issues. Not only had it ruined the relationship between me and my parents, but my brothers included. Our whole family fell apart Becuase of VerizonFamilyCompanion. Even though parents may have the right intentions, there is no good way to tell ur kids that u will start tracking them, controlling their data, and turning off their phones whenever it’s convenient. When u gave ur kids a phone, u gifted it to them, u may pay the phone bills every month, but ur TRUSTING ur kid to make the right decisions. U no longer should have to control their phone. It shows lack of trust and in result ur kids will begin to think that they can no longer trust u, turn to u, and count on u. Also it’s not really effective. Yes we’re kids/teenagers, but parents underestimate how smart we are. My brothers and I found out how to “hack” VerizonFamilyCompanion and went 3 months until our parents found out there was a way to override their control. In result they got rid of VerizonFamilyCompanion and just like that our family bond started to build again. If u think controlling ur kids personal phone is worth ruining ur relationship then by all means download VerizonFamilyCompanion. If u value and cherish the bond u share with ur kid then don’t even try this.

by Igxxiq

My mom just got VerizonFamilyCompanion and said im getting it so she can keep me safe. I know shes trying to do that but shes also being to overprotective. It makes us teens stay up late or do things we aren’t supposed to when we get it taken off unless its just me but it just makes me feel like she cant trust me and ive asked her please everyday if she could take my screen time off and she says no. Ive made a few mistakes in the past like i stay up late talking to friends bc almost every teen is up at night, its like we all meetup irl but we talk on the phone. And recently i stayed up until 3 bc i was talking to an old buddy of mine that i havent talked to in 2 years and we were bffs. I asked my mom for privacy and she says no i don’t deserve it bc im in her household. She calls me her slave bc im younger than 18 and live with her. I know i should sleep earlier but i just wanna talk to friends like other ppl do and honestly everyones sleep schedule has been messed up since corona. Please just talk to ur kids and make sure they r ok let them talk to friends at night and have unlimited time on their phones especially during quarantine. If you guys have TikTok go look and follow “billyvsco” he post GREAT advice for parents and kids just please listen to him.

by Maci May May

VerizonFamilyCompanion is the worst thing to ever be created in existence. why would you make this to torture kids. your sales are gonna be 📉📉📉once more parents start using this with their kids. for example my parents made me get this and i hate it and it’s ruined my life. i can never talk to my friends and sometimes they get mad at me when i don’t respond and in fact some of my friends are 👩🏼🔫 and when they wanna talk and i don’t respond it makes the chances even higher of them doing some irreversible. i don’t think you want $uic1de on your back, do you? not to mention its ruining my social life and i never know what’s going on. i look dumb when my friends and classmates are talking ab stuff and i have no clue. ALSO when i’m out with friends and my restrictions are on my messages won’t go through to me and i can’t send any and when i’m out i have to be able to contact my own parents at all times. what if i’m being chased by an axe murderer or a creepy old man (no offense if an old man made VerizonFamilyCompanion) is ab to r4pe me then what!? huh?! bc i can’t contact anyone and now not only do you have $uic1de but now r4pe. that’s a double whammy. just sayin. anyways as i was saying you should get rid of VerizonFamilyCompanion right away! have a nice day!😃

by Toast The Turtle Aratrika

VerizonFamilyCompanion makes it seem like it's for safety purposes and my parents lied to me about what it does and they control everything i do and it's not even my own phone anymore. VerizonFamilyCompanion tore me apart and please don't use VerizonFamilyCompanion with your kids unless you want to completely lose their trust and if you want them to never talk to you again after they leave your house because they won't. VerizonFamilyCompanion has made me self harm myself at one point in my life. VerizonFamilyCompanion had made me stay up till 5 in the morning crying because i want to leave my house. please under any circumstances don't download VerizonFamilyCompanion. it's not for safety purposes. it just makes everything worse. nobody is coming out of their rooms in my house. nobody is talking to each other. VerizonFamilyCompanion has made it feel like i cant even do anything on my phone anymore without feeling like i'm being stalked. this is even worse than life360. please never download VerizonFamilyCompanion. no matter how much a bad thing your child did to deserve this, give them a second chance. maybe even a third or fourth chance. just NEVER consider getting VerizonFamilyCompanion. your kids will hate you. if you really love and trust and care for your kids, you will never get VerizonFamilyCompanion.

by SodaPopJ101

i used to have VerizonFamilyCompanion and my step mom was the one who downloaded it, but my mom said that i didn’t need to have it. but my step sister still has VerizonFamilyCompanion , and i see a TOTAL change in her. her mom used to send her to a therapist because she thought she had depression and her mom thought she needed someone to talk to. my step sister has brought it up many times that late at night when she cries, she doesn’t have anyone to talk to, and her mom still said no to deleting VerizonFamilyCompanion . my step sister even made a whole slideshow with VALID reasons on why she should be able to delete VerizonFamilyCompanion and she STILL doesn’t let her delete it, because VerizonFamilyCompanion creates a wall around the parent thinking that they can control their kids’ life. VerizonFamilyCompanion ruins relationships and causes actual mental illnesses. i’ve seen many reviews about anxiety, depression, and more. what do parents not see about that? that controlling their kids’ entire teenage years makes them a good parent. but it doesn’t. it makes your child feel like their always hovering over you, not being trusted, and makes them feel so overpowered by you. parents, if you care about the relationship with your child, please just trust them and not download VerizonFamilyCompanion.

by Thebeastgod666

VerizonFamilyCompanion works great if you want to ban everything on the IPhone. Unless your kid is slightly techy. It’s incredible easy to get around some of the functions that it blocks. Honestly, for a device that is part of the most technologically locked down communities, it does a crapy job at locking down the phone. The next problem with app is the interface. Most users that partake of the use of VerizonFamilyCompanion are parents. Parents are known to be less technologically gifted as some. Now this is not true for all parents but it is an apt description of quite a few of them. The interface is not intuitive or easy to use if you are trying to be specific on what is blocked and what is allowed. In most cases you can not be delicate with exceptions. It’s ether all is blocked or none is blocked. Then when you want to specifically allow a website that was randomly blocked for God knows why, you have to spend 25 minutes trying to figure it out. This could be an intuitive app for parents to protect there children from inappropriate content and to much screen time, but it isn’t. There are much better apps out there than this one for that. This is my experience with VerizonFamilyCompanion. Of corse your mileage will vary. Good day.

by HummingbirdGirl1212

We love controlling, hypocritical, and untrusting parents(she said sarcastically). My mom told me she would never try to control me not even a week before she downloaded this to my phone, and yet here we are. I just turned 16. I’ve never snuck out, done drugs, drank alcohol, had sex or even a boyfriend. I did watch an anime, my hero academia to be exact, last year (she hates anime with a passion for no reason) and that made her mad but i’ve done nothing to bring this on since then. I always tell her what im doing, where im going, who ill be with, etc. We do have different beliefs and opinions about things but that doesn’t really tie into this. I feel like she has no trust in me and is being overall way too controlling. She had fun as teenager. She went to parties, went out with her friends (which i can never do because i have a lot of LGBT+ friends and she is VERY homophobic), snuck out, and had the whole high school experience. I get nothing. She then continues to tell me i need to get out more. Parents please don’t do this to your high schoolers. I can understand middle schoolers but high schoolers?? really?? Most of us aren’t even trying to do anything bad. We just need and expect more freedom, trust, and privacy considering we’re going to be adults in a few years.

by H•A•

My mom out VerizonFamilyCompanion on my phone a while back. I deleted it because it was causing data problems and had been messing with my phone. Today she added it back. I already know she doesn’t trust me for whatever reason. If you want your kids to come to you i definitely DON’T recommend VerizonFamilyCompanion to put on your child’s phone at ALL. It’s so annoying to not have trust with you parent. She made it to where i can’t be on my phone past a certain time and to where i can’t call certain people past a certain time. I don’t sneak out, cuss, talk to random people, stay up all night, send bad things, etc. I know a lot of kids that do that and still don’t have to be tracked and have VerizonFamilyCompanion. I always get in trouble for being in a bad mood well i wonder why. It’s because i feel like no one trust me and it’s annoying. Reconsider VerizonFamilyCompanion for your kids please! Also is slowly tear my relationship with my mom away. I was told it’s so she could see where i am but than i found out she. could see everything and every move i make. Not that i do anything bad i just don’t have any privacy even with my dad. Because she has it set where i can only talk to him certain times.

by Ur Local Deadpool

so currently I got in trouble for staying past my curfew. and she put this thing on my phone. my mom thinks that me being off social media will be helpful to my mental health. but in my opinion i really don’t think so. i talk to friends on there when i need help. i can’t even rant to my mom anymore cuz most the time she’s on her phone or working. i feel as if VerizonFamilyCompanion has disconnected my trust towards her and her trust towards me. now if y’all app makers could please stop making apps like these that’d be great. parents need to learn to be able to trust their children and let them come to you. doing all of this or taking things away because of a simple mistake really isn’t gonna help anything at all. from my perspective i personally would like my things back, i’ve done worse in school. i can’t even focus. i can’t even text people who i wanna text. the only person i mainly can talk to is my mom. and i personally don’t want to sometimes cuz i feel like she would judge me. i just wanna be able to be open towards her and i can’t even trust her because she’s taken my things away due to a mistake i’ve made. and yes i’ve learned from it quite a bit. anyway don’t get VerizonFamilyCompanion. tears mother to daughter relationships apart. or father to son, you get the memo.

by Mannn Idkkkkk

So I barley got VerizonFamilyCompanion yesterday, and I’m already mad about it. I’m only 12 and I get that my parents want to protect me but here’s the problem, it ruins peoples relationship with their parents, it makes trust issues involved too, it ruins a kids child hood and the worst part is no able to contact anyone to help you!!!, it’s literally the worst I will never get over this and it’s already ruining my parents and I relationship. It makes me think they don’t have any trust in me it makes me have anxiety knowing they will always be looking at me a certain way, it makes me have a mental break down but I have to keep it silent because I don’t want my parents seeing me like this. I also have some anger issues and the problem is I can’t delete VerizonFamilyCompanion if I wanted to it has a way so you can’t delete that app if it’s not approved, I hate it I wish my parents could actually have trust in me. I’ll admit I did have a problem with a yolo a few months ago people were being dirty to me I’m guessing it was a joke so I didn’t take it seriously It was disgusting and I did say it was but my parents REALLY had to take it up to heart. So I really hate VerizonFamilyCompanion and I hope for the kids or teenage parents see this so they can realize downloading an app to take away their children’s privacy isn’t the way to do it.

by Jaydoono

I just got VerizonFamilyCompanion and my parents are gonna turn off the Wi-Fi early, and they can track everything we do. With VerizonFamilyCompanion my parents put down the Wi-Fi and we probably won’t get it till later on until the day. I understand our parents are trying to help but it won’t help, i cant download apps I like without getting permission, I can’t have social media, and now they are taking away the Wi-Fi. My parents told my sister and me that if we are on the phones to check something at school it will be turned off. VerizonFamilyCompanion is telling me that my parents don’t have trust in me and my sister. We are starting to feel that we aren’t trusted anymore and that our parents think we will do something bad. I’m starting to think about it and I feel like they want us to get away from friends and stop talking to them and doing the things we like. They want us to do other activities but we never have time for them. I hope they delete VerizonFamilyCompanion from their phones. This happened on my other electronics, they always paused the Wi-Fi and left us bored. We would only get Wi-Fi for 2 hours, we are doing good in school and I don’t get why they do this. It’s getting boring and I wish I could stop it. And also with emergencies they can turn it off in school but what if there is a sh**ter we can’t contact our parents.

by ༒ꪖiriᥴꪮ༒

Ok from the start, I know the reason why I have it on my phone is because I’m known for staying up late, but I’ve gotten out of the habit, I think. But still I hate that my parents don’t trust me enough to even have my own privacy. My mother literally got mad at me just because I deleted pictures from a group chat I was in. Ever since it’s been on my phone my mother has gotten so controlling. She always seeing who I talk to. She doesn’t care about my privacy , she doesn’t care how I even feel at this point. I used to love my parents but now, I hate them, hate is a strong but it’s the truth. I hate my parents, I have a high feeling they wouldn’t care if I disliked them. I hate that they think this is ok for parent to do, but it isn’t, all it does is slowly making hatred towards are parents. It also gives stress and social anxiety, maybe depression. VerizonFamilyCompanion should be removed. Seeing the reviews VerizonFamilyCompanion shouldn’t be on here. And I know the purpose is to protect your kids but are you for real?! All it does is make kids think there parents are controlling, even though it’s probably true it also does harm to kids mentally, maybe not to all but some. Like for instance me, I’ve been struggling mentally because of my parents. I understand your trying to make sure kids are safe but this is messed up.

by An Ctrical Man

Instead of complaining like most people here I am here to offer criticism about VerizonFamilyCompanion, now when I installed VerizonFamilyCompanion I was thinking that it just tracks your location, and to be fair it does but. The other restrictions on VerizonFamilyCompanion include seeing your child’s search history, limiting internet etc. But the thing that made me annoyed the most was the search history tracking. This was because it never showed what was or wasn’t allowed in VerizonFamilyCompanion or any context and also never says if they are collecting data in the background. But giving the benefit of the doubt that would make kids annoyed and would try and be more sneaky. But the thing that makes me frustrated with VerizonFamilyCompanion is the lack of options and information in the companion app and making it useless other than for it to collect data. And is unclear on what is blocked and what isn’t blocked. By this point I am repeating myself but by now you understand my point. Also as a another suggestion I wish they would show what parts of VerizonFamilyCompanion are active and what isn’t because it’s a pain for me personally not knowing what is or isn’t active.

by Tstiaeusuxtxovydt

Ok though this can help you block inappropriate web sites and make sure your child is safe on the road it definitely doesn’t help a lot. It displays that you distrust your child, and that will definitely upset them. Also most of these apps are useless. For example one time I was at school and couldn’t find my brother so I was gonna text my friends and my mom but my time was blocked and I couldn’t find him. I found eventually but I would have been easier just to not have VerizonFamilyCompanion and be able to text people during school. Just what if there was a real emergency and your child was to text that they were ok but you limited their time? Also you can just track you child on different apps so most of the features are useless. The blocking websites is good but also some parents ( including mine) would block the most common apps saying they were “inappropriate.” So just don’t get it. It will upset your kids and make them more rebellious and just nothing good. One last thing, kids will always find away behind child safety things like app so it’s just gonna be you and your kid fighting constantly and never getting along. Not the best.

by Lilly Vassalll

1 year ago my mom put VerizonFamilyCompanion on my phone. I was really upset because I thought she didn’t trust me to go to bed when I needed to. I’m gonna agree I was really bad in the past. I never went to sleep. But after a year I have changed and my parents still don’t trust me to go to sleep without getting on it. When I tell them that I am capable of going to sleep now without it on they don’t listen to me. It hurts me because I don’t think I can be trusted at all. I’m not a bad kid! I get A,B,C’s on my report card. I don’t sneak out. I don’t cuss. I do everything I’m supposed to do, and I actually listen to my parents 99% of the time. 2 days ago my mom added “School Hours” and Made my “Night Hours” to 8 O’clock pm and it used to be 10! My mom refused to listen to how I feel which made me so hurt I cried like 5 times that night and had so much an anxiety. She even took my messages off. It use to be I could text certain people and now I can’t. So when I wanted to talk to someone to help me calm down and get my life back together, I couldn’t. And I didn’t do anything wrong. VerizonFamilyCompanion makes me feel like I can’t be trusted which now me and my mom are not as close and we have never been so mad at each other In are life’s and it’s because of VerizonFamilyCompanion😕. If you want your kids to come to you when you need them too. And just trust you. Don’t get VerizonFamilyCompanion. It’s that easy...

by Engr. Clayton

VerizonFamilyCompanion definitely helps to keep tab on loved ones and family members but the work of such tracking apps is usually limited because you always need to access the device you want to keep tab on in order for the tracking app to work effectively. My question is, if I can access the device i want hacked, why would I need it hacked? However, I understand we hack devices due to different intentions and to recover some information that must have been deleted or kept from being easily seen, the device will need be intercepted or completely cloned at times. Infidelity causes a lot of trauma that might be difficult to cope with or result to depression if you don't have an account of what is really going down with your spouse when you're not together. If you keep getting these signs, it's most likely to be true your spouse is seeing someone else. That's not the end of life anyway. You can make a choice that suits you and will be to your advantage for something like that to never repeat itself. For anyone that find themselves in this situation, what you need do is contact Swifthackers (at)Yah ooc om, for any hack service you need. I have worked with their technical team and group of genius hackers and didn't get disappointed with their swift response and reliable results. You can also contact them to shed more lights on what seem hidden from you in your relationship, family and other matters.

by Yofavv_ayeaye

About a two years ago I got my daughter her first phone. She is 13 years old and is going to the 9th grade. The guy at the verison place told me that I could get it set up on her phone and I thought it was a good idea. I didn’t even think about her privacy and about me having trust issues. When I set it up I blocked all apps that can allow her to communicate with any other person except for family. I’m thinking back to it and It just sounds controlling. We’ve been arguing a lot ever since I got it on her phone and she never wants to do anything with me. She also has social anxiety and I always tell her that she needs to make more friends but I blocked her from doing that. She’s so used to being in her room and never going out or talking to anyone because I never let her. VerizonFamilyCompanion has ruined our relationship. I still have it on her phone because even though our relationship is bad she doesn’t get in trouble and I know she can’t talk to bad people. I know this sounds crazy but I dont think I can ever let VerizonFamilyCompanion go. I’ve just gotten used to having her phone under my control and I dont think I can trust her with out if Im being honest

by Get Away From This App Asap

Ok so I understand how parents want to “monitor” their children but this isn’t monitoring its more like stalking. They watch your every move and can see all your deleted and regular messages, photos, apps, and history and track your location. It’s not like I take bad photos and watch terrible stuff on the internet or sneak out every night. I have straight A’s in school and I sleep fine every night. Even though sometimes I’ll text or call my friends late, I still sleep fine and do well in school. With VerizonFamilyCompanion I cant do anything anymore at night or talk to my friends. It makes me feel left out and depressed and it causes fights with the family. With VerizonFamilyCompanion you can’t socialize and be a regular teenager. It restrains you from having a normal life and I don’t even do anything wrong. Also VerizonFamilyCompanion never lets me get texts back so someone might’ve texted me something and I’ll never get it so it ruins your friends relationships with you also. If u are a parent, spare your child some peace and don’t get this horrible app for your kids. And if you are somebody with VerizonFamilyCompanion on your phone, I’m terribly sorry for u and welcome to the left out depressed club. Also with this stalking app my mom will probably see this too and get me in trouble lol

by 123abcbad

i’ve had VerizonFamilyCompanion for a while and my parents have been pretty lenient with it. but since school has started up, they’ve completely gone insane. our data has been limited to about 1 gigabyte a month (down from 3 in the summer) and they’ve set it to routinely shut off at 10 pm “so we can get enough sleep.” i’m a sophomore in high school and i’m involved in musical and in marching band. most of the time, i haven’t even started my homework before 9 pm. now i can’t use my phone either for important things and my grades have definitely dropped because of it. this has literally torn my family apart. when us kids and teens got our phones, it was because our parents trusted us enough with them. and now they have apps where they can follow our every move, limit our data, track who we’re texting and shut off our phones when it’s convenient for them. i get if their child is one who usually sneaks out or does bad things, but my brother and i both get straight A’s and have never snuck out in our lives. so the fact that VerizonFamilyCompanion is made and forced onto so many people is frankly kind of insulting to us. you guys want us to “grow up and be mature” so badly, but this is just NOT the way to do it.

by Parkerlynn

I'm 16, I have a job, a license, a car, 3 scholarships, and a whole multitude of family problems all because of VerizonFamilyCompanion. Long after your parent or the guardian of the account deletes the account, changes the settings and deletes the account VerizonFamilyCompanion STILL has complete control. My phone used to shut off at 10:30pm est, so now if I'm on the west coast it shuts off at 7:30pm, it's been deleted for MONTHS. Theres been screaming matches, calling Verizon, and even a NEW phone, and VerizonFamilyCompanion STILL CONTROLS EVERYTHING.
Not to mention that it has completely destroyed my social life with REAL LIFE FRIENDS, which has causes depression and worse, on top of that it blocks websites and numbers. It blocked me from calling the National Suicide Hotline and instead sent me to 'Verizon Wireless Phone Line', it's blocked me from calling the non-emergency police line, it's blocked me from even trying to get professional help from Suicide Hotline, CPS, and EMS. My parents are heavily abusive, my mother has even broken my finger, and this is another step closer to having COMPLETE control and distrust for me. If you don't trust your child to have their own life away from you, maybe you're the problem your child pushes away when you try to hug them and not them being 'moody'.

by Angelina A. L.

Ok my dad made me install this and I hate it. I’m old enough to be trusted and I never get into trouble. I don’t see why I have to download this. For parents looking that the reviews please don’t make your child download this. This will absolutely ruin the trust between you and your child/children. I know because I kind of feel hurt that my dad doesn’t trust me enough to use my phone with being supervised. I don’t really trust him anymore. I feel like my life is being controlled by him. If you are going to make your children download this why did you even give them a phone in the first place. When parents give their children a phone I think there’s sort of like a trust. Plus I find this very creepy in a way. With the premium parents can literally track their child’s location all the time. I don’t know what else to say besides I absolutely hate it. So parents VerizonFamilyCompanion can make your child hate you. And don’t my like my dad and be like “don’t listen to the reviews” the reviews matter. And I’m telling you. VerizonFamilyCompanion can ruin the bond between you cans your children. It can make them hate you because it feels like you’re controlling their life(which you kind of are).

by Jamie Dallas

I hate VerizonFamilyCompanion!!! I am old enough to be trusted. I have good grades, do all my chores when asked, and stay out of trouble I should not need my parents watching everything I do on my phone. I understand that I am a teenager and I am on my phone a lot but it doesn't mean that you have to see everything that I do. It is MY phone that has MY stuff on it and you don’t need to see what I am doing. Also, you should not be able to pause my internet whenever you want because I need to use it and when you pause it I can’t do anything on it. I am at school for almost 7 hours a day and when I come back I wanna be able to use my phone without you looking and checking everything that I do and if you think I am doing something “bad” you pause my internet. Lastly, you shouldn’t be able to see all of my texts. When I am talking to my friends you do not need to be in our conversations because you are not involved in it so you do not need to know everything we talk about. It is my business and you should not be reading everything me and my friend say. This is a HORRIBLE app that no parent should ever make their child get.

by 904695

I will tell u that my relationship with my family and my mom was way better before I got a phone. It’s because of VerizonFamilyCompanion I’m telling you. All of your privacy just gets taken from you. My parents knew less before I had a phone and. Ow they r all up in my business. You want to have a good relationship with your kid??? Don’t spy on them. That’s the last thing a kid would want. I get it. You want to keep them safe or whatever but seriously there are better ways than to spy on every message they r sending w this stupid app. You gave your phone a kid bc you trust them to have it, because obviously you thought they were responsible enough to have one. If u need to download this don’t bother buying them one. I’m sure a kid would rather have no phone than to have their parents stalking them 24/7. Part of growing up is learning how to be independent and learn how to make good choices on your own. Your not gonna be holding your kids hand their whole life. Spying on them is going to make them miserable. Please don’t let your parents take away your independence.

by Ariadreiskwagner

My mom said I have to get VerizonFamilyCompanion or she would shut off my phone and give it back to the apple store, I cried for days begging her to give me a reason why but she just responded with “ because I said so” which made ever angrier. I had a school trip and five minutes before the trip we where littarly driving and she said “if you don’t download VerizonFamilyCompanion your are not going on the trip and I am embarrassing you infront of everyone and smash your phone”. SHE DID NOT HAVE TO TAKE IT THERE AND THREAT ME TO DOWNLOAD IT. What I am trying to say is VerizonFamilyCompanion tubings relationships, I had a terrible week and it’s never the same when I talk to her now. I have never done anything bad on my phone, occasionally my mom would check my phone to see what I was doing but a 24/6 app is too much. If you are a good parent download Life 360 and put screen time limits on your child’s phone is settings, there is no point in paying for an app that does the same thing and sounds more intimidating. If you want to still keep up a healthy relationship with your child DO NOT get VerizonFamilyCompanion.

by E.Vzqz

First off VerizonFamilyCompanion gives parents the power to literally render the child’s phone useless. It cuts off any internet connection whenever they want, they see everything the child is doing. It lets parents spy on their children and that’s not good. If you don’t trust your child, and you don’t want them to do anything on their phone, get VerizonFamilyCompanion. VerizonFamilyCompanion is the stupidest thing that a parent can do to their child. What if you are on a Thursday night and it’s 10:00 and you need to ask your friend how many pages you needed to do for the homework? Well to bad, your phone doesn’t work for crap. How about if you want to download an app that lets you see people’s pictures and reviews and ideas that they put for people to see? Well to bad because you can’t download any social media that already isn’t blocked by the parent. Please take VerizonFamilyCompanion down for good, it’s not helping keep children safe, it’s taking away their freedom and joy of having their own phone. Parents, please never get this for your child.

by Kyotomenat

I understand your concerns about your child, maybe to stop them from going on bad stuff on the internet, or stopping the internet at a certain time for homework or sleep. But every relationship needs trust that VerizonFamilyCompanion just simply doesn’t have. Every relationship needs trust to succeed. Maybe you don’t believe that you and your child need this trust or maybe you think that you already have it but this overbearingness in your child’s life will hurts you relationship. If you think this will better you and your child then maybe instead find and build the trust. In life we all need life lessons and VerizonFamilyCompanion takes away those lessons. I’m a 16 year old and my guardian just got VerizonFamilyCompanion and i feel like I’m starting to become very distant because of this. He doesn’t trust me enough to walk home but has the excuse of “theres crazy people out there” but we all need these life lessons to succeed in life. And if we don’t deal with our problems first hand then they will become even bigger problems.

by NativeDragon2589

Well you see my parents have always seemed controlling and unreasonable with my phone time. If your looking to somehow make an even worse relationship with your children, VerizonFamilyCompanion is a great idea😃. It’s currently 9:54 which means I’m about 6 minutes or so, the demons in VerizonFamilyCompanion come to life😈. Kids- don’t you dare think that you will be privileged enough to use the internet or social media past a certain dumb time. It is also extremely easy to delete this “demon” from your phone; simply go into your settings, find General, Device Management, tap on Smart Family Companion, and finally, press Remove Management. Oh, did you really think it was going to work like that, well at least not in my family. You may be able to get through those steps and start living a happy, enjoyable piece again, until your parents get the “demon’s text” which informs your parents that you have gotten rid of your dreadful VPN. Sorry, but I feel the same way about my parents that all of you do.

by Cookiemonster908

So VerizonFamilyCompanion is overall very good. I enjoy being able to send my parents location check ins and stuff along those lines but it’s really annoying as a child. Most children are on here ranting about how much they hate it but I don’t hate it at all! It’s just annoying to have. Today I went to download Snapchat. A app most kids have now a days. But it won’t load it won’t allow me to message or do anything. And I hop onto google and it said vnp can cause these problems, I was just going to simply turn it off set up my account and then proceed to turn it back on, because again it’s not a bad app and I do not mind it at all. It won’t let me switch it off. I get why it does this but really. And when it turns off for like the split second it shuts down Bluetooth, WiFi, and cellular data. It’s also annoying because it notifies my parents when I arrive home. It just gets annoying when my mother and father scream their daughter is home when I arrive home. It’s a good idea but I just wish I had a little more freedom. But I do recommend for younger children!

by Artistsanonymous

Ok. All the reviews on this are either parents who believe that all kids are irresponsible or kids who think they should have no boundaries. Hate to break it to ya, but neither of you are right. Kids should absolutely have boundaries, but that doesn’t give adults the right to assume that all kids are irresponsible. VerizonFamilyCompanion is good for monitoring, but I agree that it should be used in moderation. If your kid has had issues, then go ahead. But you should NOT be snooping around kid’s personal lives unless you actually think that they are up to something. It is EXTREMELY psychologically and developmentally hurtful and if you still think it’s ok, just know that you’re raising kids with trust issues, lack of respect, resentment, anger issues, abandonment and privacy issues, and the lift goes on. If you’re a child who feels violated, remember that your parent is only doing what they think of best, although it may not always be. If you’re a parent who is going to use VerizonFamilyCompanion, please remember that your kid may not always be as “bad” as they seem and that being more restrictive will only make them more likely to misbehave. The more rules that are implemented, the more likely somebody is to break them.

by Alyssapurps

Most of these reviews are children venting that their parents set limits on their access to the Wild West. Many are just seemingly upset that they can’t be “normal”.. sorry to tell you kids but just because there are lazy parents out there that turn a blind eye to their kids doings doesn’t make your parents overprotective or abnormal. Yes all you kids need to learn lessons and you will whether you have VerizonFamilyCompanion on your phone or not. Boundaries are necessary and every generation needs to set some. For me and my kids those boundaries are a bedtime, be where you say you will be and stay off of garbage on the net, there is nothing unreasonable about that and if you think it is you are probably a child. I chose VerizonFamilyCompanion after being a parent that “trusted” my child and I got nothing but lies and issues for over a year. Kids don’t like boundaries especially when they see all their friends without any, but they are NECESSARY to create a healthy home. If this destroys your life then it’s time to reevaluate yourself and your goals in life, not your parents.