Start a break

1. “Home” → “Start a break” on the child card. If a break is already running or waiting to start, the button is called “Manage the break”.
2. “How long”: 30 min, 1 hour, 2 hours or “Until I end it” — if you forget to end it, it ends by itself after 12 hours.
3. If the child has several devices, the break is for all of them by default: the “And on the child's other devices” tick. Untick it to pause only the device chosen at the top of the page.
4. “When to start”: “Now”, “In 5 min” (the default) or “In 10 min”. The child has time to save and finish the game — see the warning below.
5. “What to tell the child” — optional: the child sees it in the warning and on the break screen.
6. “Keep some apps available” — if something should keep working during the break.
7. Tap “Start in 5 min” (or “Start a break” if “Now” is chosen).

With “In 5 min” or “In 10 min” the child's phone gets the break at once and right away shows a warning over the open app and a notification with a countdown, and once more a minute before the start. Then the break starts by itself on time, even without internet. Its length counts from the start: “1 hour in 5 minutes” is a whole hour of break.

While the break is waiting to start, the card says “Break starts at 18:05” and how long is left. “Start now” starts it without waiting, “Cancel” cancels it (on every device where it is waiting). Once it starts, “Break in progress” and the time left appear. “End the break” ends it; tick “End on the other devices too” to end it everywhere.

The child's phone is off or offline? The break still gets there: as soon as the device is back online, the break starts for the time that is left, and meanwhile you see “… is offline — the break will start as soon as the device is online”. The same for the end: “… the break will end as soon as the device is online”.