Your child may use a phone, tablet, and computer during the same day. When those devices are paired with the same child profile, they share one screen-time allowance.
One child, one shared timer
Screen time belongs to the child profile, not to each device.
For example, imagine you give your child 1 hour of Free Time:
- They use 20 minutes on an iPad.
- They move to the family computer and use 15 minutes.
- Koodos shows 35 minutes used and 25 minutes remaining.
They do not get a new hour when they change devices.
Changing devices is automatic
When your child starts using another paired device, Koodos automatically lets that device continue the shared timer. You do not need to pause the first device or change anything in the Parent App.
It may take a short moment for every screen to show the latest total.
If two devices are used at once
Only one device adds time to the shared total at a time. This prevents the same minute from being counted twice.
Koodos uses recent activity to decide which device should update the timer. The other paired devices still follow your rules and schedules, but they do not add a second copy of that minute to the total.
Free Time and Homework Time are separate
Free Time and Homework Time have their own timers. Homework Time used on one device does not use up Free Time on another.
When your child changes devices, Koodos continues whichever timer they are currently using.
Pausing and changing rules
Changes you make for a child in the Parent App are shared with that child's paired devices. This includes:
- Pause and Resume
- daily time limits
- Homework Time
- bedtimes and schedules
- required tasks
- app and website rules supported by each device
A device must be online to receive a change right away. If it is offline, it may continue using the most recent rules it received and update after it reconnects.
Set up devices under the same child
Pair each of your child's devices with the same child profile. Do not create a separate copy of your child for each device, because each child profile has its own timer.
If the time does not look right
First, wait a minute for the devices to update. Then check that:
- every device is paired with the same child profile
- each device shows as online in the Parent App
- Koodos is still installed and has the permissions requested during setup
- the correct timer, Free Time or Homework Time, is running
If the total still does not look right, open Settings → Help & Requests → Get Help in the Parent App and tell us which devices your child was using.