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Adding a child and setting up their device

Children get their own account with no email, a PIN, and their own Kitty Jar.

Children get a simpler Kitty Board with their own jobs and Kitty Jar. Their hearts wait for a grown-up's OK. They don't need an email address.

Add a child

  1. Open Settings, then Family and friends, and tap Add a child.
  2. Enter their name, choose their colour, and pick a 4-number PIN they'll remember.
  3. Tap Add child. They're in your family straight away.

Children are free on the Family plan. On the Free plan, a child can be your one family member.

Set up their phone or tablet

  1. In Family and friends, tap Set up device next to your child.
  2. On their phone or tablet, open Kitty Board (or the link you're shown) and choose Setting up a child's device?
  3. Enter the code, then your child types their PIN. The code works once, for 15 minutes. Done: the device is theirs.
Lily's home screen: her Kitty Jar with 17 hearts, 4 waiting for OK, and Today
Lily's jobs board with hearts on each job
What a child sees: their Kitty Jar, their jobs, their boards.

Give them jobs

Make a board for them (or let them make one). A child's boards are shared with their grown-ups from the start, so you can add jobs and hearts. Hearts on their boards are for them.

Saying OK

When they tick a job, it shows on your home screen with OK and Not yet. OK sends the hearts to their Kitty Jar with a celebration on their screen. Not yet puts the job back on their list.

A grown-up's home screen: Lily finished 2 jobs, with OK and Not yet
The celebration on the child’s phone: Mum said OK! plus 3 hearts

Only a child's grown-ups see their Kitty Jar and prizes. See Privacy and children's data.

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