How can I see how much time an adult spends on xbox?

wmu3217 · Dec 21, 2018

OK, I'll try to keep this simple. I bought my daughter an xbox last year. She's an amazing gamer, but I want to see how much time she spends on fortnight, overwatch, etc. I can't figure out how and here's why. When I set the xbox up, I used my (adult)
account. I then added her email and she set up a user name/tag. Except we didn't realize that she set it up on my email address. We can't change that now because 'dad, all my points are on that account!'.

I can see on the family activity pages that you can track a child's activity, but... her ID is attached to my email and when I click on my name, there is no activity report. Why isn't this available? Is there some other way to do it? Why shouldn't adults
be able to see their screen time or usage? Any help gratefully appreciated.

:)

wmu3217

Thanks Brad!

Looks like it's impossible for now. Someone should make an app for this! LOL. I agree that since Microsoft has the data, it would be simple to do. I'm going to try a different route. I think I can load some software or change some settings in my router
to just tell me the active time of the device. Perhaps that will give me a starting point. I did submit a suggestion. Maybe one day this will be possible.

Thanks very much to everyone for all of your help and guidance!

wmu3217

Hi XBF Nestor S, thanks for getting back to me on this. The link you sent it helpful, but it's just a big list of sign in information, including mine. Still looking for the hours. I can find some of the hours by looking at each game individually, but
since fortnite turned off their counter, there is no way to tell from them. It would be awesome if there was just a dashboard that showed how much use each account on an xbox used. MS has the data.

wmu3217

El Mago TV, awesome! That solves part of my problem. That shows the total minutes. Any idea how to see the minutes per day with dates and times?

XBF Brad A

Hello Wmu,

With adult accounts there is no way to view the minutes a day and such as you like. Due to its set as an adult there is no reason to monitor them statistics. The only way you can completely monitor the child's activity is only allow them to play on the child
accounts unfortunately.

You can if you like submit an idea on
Xbox ideas to have a setting like this implemented for adulty accounts if you like. Being they have it for child accounts don't think would be too complicated to implement for adult accounts.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Brad

XBF Nestor S

Hey Wmu thanks for keeping in touch!

Ok so if that isn't what you're looking for the best bet would be to add the adult account to a family. Once that account is added then the "parent account" would be able to look into the times (just to be absolutely clear there is no way to add limits to
it since it is still an adult account). Look into adding it to an
Family Account and keep us posted to see if we can further assist!

How can I see how much time an adult spends on xbox?