Philips Sonicare for Kids Bluetooth Electric Toothbrush

🅣🅞🅞🅣🅗🅑🅡🅤🅢🅗🅔🅢... (𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸) We have purchased 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 of these over the years and they have ALL malfunctioned. My son used our sonicare to soothe his gums when he was a baby. He would kinda gnaw on the side of it with his mouth and it really helped. 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗯𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵 #❶ We decided to get him his own and first it seemed great (they all did). And I liked that the sparkly app, specifically because it showed where the toothbrush should be touching the teeth. 𝗕𝘂𝘁.... After a couple months, it would intermittently get REALLY loud. Soon it was loud all the time! I guess I shouldn’t say “all” because every once in a while it will be quiet again for a brush or two. 🤷🏻‍♀️ No idea why. It wasn’t just my son that couldn’t handle the noise, neither could we! It was awful! He didn’t want to use it anymore and who could blame him? We thought it might be from getting dropped (because he’s a kid and they drop everything). So, we bought another. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗯𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵 #❷ Bought it, brought it home and it was noisier than the others were when they worked normal, so we took it back and exchanged it for another. 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗯𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵 #❸ Guess what… same thing as the first one!!! Worked great, was quiet and then it got loud, again. Now I give up. But wait… there’s more. 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗯𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵 #❹ We had bought one for my niece when we bought our first one but apparently she only used it a couple times. They said she wouldn’t use it so they gave it back to us so my daughter could try it. Guess what, it was making the same loud noise!!! She only used it a handful of times. I kept it for a little while and I was about to throw it away but I turned it on first and guess what??? It was QUIET!!! 🤨 So, I had my daughter try it and she used it a couple times but she didn’t like it because she said it tickled her teeth too much even on the sensitive setting. I really think there should be a 3rd super low setting for helping them get used to it, but there’s only 2 settings and there isn’t a big difference between them. My son was now using a cheap generic electric toothbrush from Amazon and it was great so he didn’t want to use this one. The kids recently wanted to use the sparkly app again so I was going to have my daughter try this toothbrush again but… it was so loud it hurt! NEVER AGAIN, SONICARE!!!! NEVER AGAIN!!! 🅢🅟🅐🅡🅚🅛🅨 🅐🅟🅟 The sonicare kids sparkly app: I like that it responds to the toothbrush turning on and off and shows where the actual bristles should be touching the teeth. It follows a great pattern and my son did an ok job following along. Maybe I expected too much because I thought it would show you WHERE they were actually brushing (why else would it be Bluetooth?) but it just shows you where the brush SHOULD be. The ONLY thing it does with Bluetooth, is basically a start and stop button for the app. That’s it. 🙄 Brushing earns prizes like food, paint cans for colors and different backgrounds like a snow scene, plus the little sparkly is so cute! You can poke him, tickle him, pet him, change his color, etc. 𝗕𝗨𝗧… The app can be very frustrating. Sparkly won’t eat in the morning if he hasn’t brushed his teeth, and he won’t eat at night after he brushes his teeth. They get mad that they have all this food and can’t ever feed it. 𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲... While the app does have a manual mode for use with other toothbrushes, it doesn’t show a toothbrush head and only shows bubbles. It’s hard to tell where the toothbrush should touch the teeth. I get that they want people to buy the actual sonicare to use the app, but when the toothbrush got too loud to use or if their teeth were too sore to use it turned on, it will only do the bubble view. (We bought the toothbrush, so technically we bought the app, right?) I thought that even though the sonicare was really noisy, I could just turn it on and wrap it in a towel. But it is still too loud! Way too loud!!!! In a towel in another room and I still can’t handle it! FYI we took really good care of the toothbrushes. The first one was dropped several times (hence why we thought it was user error) but we were extra careful with the others. 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦!!! On the bright side, we just found a virtual reality manual toothbrush for $7 that uses the camera and dots on the bottom of the toothbrush to figure out where they are brushing AND it gives you a parent report with a diagram of the mouth showing where they brushed and where they missed! It is the most amazing toothbrush and our best purchase of the year!!!!! I spent over $120 on the sonicare garbage but I would’ve happily paid that much for new $10 VR toothbrush we have!!!