ABC Kids

Feedback to the developers: I am very selective about what & how many different programs I expose my young child to - I’ve reduced it to about a dozen shows. I find it very frustrating that most times I go onto the app, a new show has been added, without any announcement to parents when the app is opened. Every time before I give my child the device, I have to go into the ‘filter content’ setting and scroll through the list of 150+ shows I’ve already removed and check no others have been added in. This shouldn’t have to be this way - I’m switched on enough to know that your one-off program filter isn’t an all-time filter but many parents wouldn’t know this. Its a pain to keep filtering specific shows and having them coming back up again when a special Christmas or Halloween etc episode is released. If the filtering process is being used, please request parent permission before adding new shows yourself.

This is a staple app in our house! We’ve used it daily for a few years. The old version was great, it was simple, toddler-friendly and had helpful and functional parental controls. The new version seems to have removed most of these and made the app far too complicated for solo toddler operation. There’s no longer any way to see how much time remains before the timer expires, and there are now arbitrary groupings of shows that are irrelevant to my kid on the home page. She likes what she likes and to find her shows she now needs to select the search function down the very bottom to bring up the alphabetical listing. Otherwise she can’t find all her shows properly. The icon to stream to Apple TV is ridiculously close to the closed captions icon which means it’s difficult even for an adult to use without mistakes. Worst of all, it seems to dump the user out of the app completely after each episode finishes. So parents hoping to shower in peace for 20 mins have to intervene after each episode. It seems the the developers threw the baby out with the bath water this time.

This app is pretty good but it needs to change the BAD part the bad part is when you watch to many videos it just goes blank/ doesn’t work any more I would give it 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ but I can’t unless you change that. And the good thing about the app is the some of the videos are funny and makes me and my little sister laugh a lot and the thing that makes my little sister laugh is the show bluey 4 things that make my little sister laugh is when bingo the parrot says what-you-want-a-craker) and when bingo says ooger-booger to her dad also when they play neighbours and there dad moves next to the mum and makes a lot of noise and last is when bluey is a mum and rusty wants to play mums and dads and bluey thinks rusty wants to be a baby and bluey takes care of rusty like rusty is a baby