If a child picks up your phone, they shouldn't be able to undo the rules from KidPair. The KidPair code is four digits the app asks for before anything important: removing a child's device, changing what is supervised, resetting the child's PIN, hiding a child, leaving or deleting the family, disconnecting an adult's phone, unlinking the e-mail.
- “Settings” (the gear at the top) → “This phone” → “KidPair code” → “Turn on”. A linked e-mail is needed first — a code goes there if you forget yours.
- Choose: “The same PIN as on the child's phone” (one code fewer; fine if the child doesn't know that PIN) or “A new code just for me” (safer if the child may have seen the PIN).
- Optional: “Fingerprint or face instead of the code” — no typing, but the code stays in case the finger doesn't work. And “Ask every time the app opens” — the code when the app is opened after more than 30 seconds away.
If a new fingerprint or face is added to the phone, KidPair asks for the code again — so a child can't add their own finger. The code never covers an SOS alarm.
Forgot the code — “Forgot the code?”: a one-time code comes to the linked e-mail, and with it you set a new one. After five wrong tries the app asks you to wait, and the pause grows each time. The code itself is kept only on your phone.
“New sign-in to KidPair”: when someone signs in to the family on a new phone or on the website — with a code from the e-mail or a recovery code — every adult at once gets a notification and a letter: who, on which device and when. If it was your account, tap the notification — “Phones with access” opens, where an unfamiliar phone can be disconnected. If it was another adult's account, “Adults in the family” opens.