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Connect Parent and Child Devices

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In this guide, the use of masculine terms or pronouns is to be understood as also referring to the corresponding feminine forms. The masculine gender is adopted solely for reasons of practicality.

The TimeU app is most effective when parents can actively supervise their child. To facilitate this, the app allows the parent’s device to connect with the child’s device, enabling remote monitoring of the child’s activities in real-time and providing access to detailed statistics about the child’s app usage.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to connect the child’s device to the parent’s device. The connection is established by scanning a QR code generated on the child’s device using the parent’s device.

If you are using the TimeU app solely on the parent’s device, the information in this tutorial does not apply to you.

Show QR Code of child device
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On the child device, open the settings screen by clicking the settings icon in the top left corner:

open settings

Then select the “Show My QR Code” option:

show qr settings option

After entering the parental PIN, the child’s QR code will be displayed.

show qrcode button
Please note that once the child’s QR code is displayed, the “Cloud Sync” option in the settings will be automatically enabled. This feature allows for the anonymous synchronization of the child’s activities to the cloud. These data can then be accessed on the parent’s device after it is paired with the child’s device, as explained in the next section.

Keep this screen with the QR code open, then take the parent’s device and follow the instructions provided in the next section.

Scan QR Code of child device
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On the parent’s device, open the settings screen by clicking the settings icon in the top left corner

open settings

Then select the “Scan child QR Code” option:

scan qr code settings option

You will be asked to give the app permission to use the camera, “only this time” permission is perfectly fine.

scan qr code button
scan qr code permissions

When the camera view activates, take the child’s device and scan the qr code that you created in the previous section.

camera view

Finally, after successfully scanning the child QR code which activate the pairing with the child device, set the child name.

setting connected child name

That’s it! You have successfully paired your device with the child device. Now in the main app screen a new line will be visible that if clicked will open a new screen with a real-time child monitor, and more, see the children monitor screen tutorial for more information

Features For Parents - This article is part of a series.
Part 1: This Article