You can set up your kid’s contacts, screen time limits, location sharing, and apps for your Galaxy Watch for Kids.
About Galaxy Watch for Kids
Galaxy Watch for Kids is a WearOS experience tailored for children. You can customize settings for your child’s Galaxy Watch, and help your child have safer, age-appropriate experiences.
What you need
To set up your Galaxy Watch for Kids, you need:
- Samsung Galaxy Watch 7
- A Samsung Galaxy phone and Galaxy Wearable app
- A Samsung account
- A Samsung account for your child
- A Google Account
- A Google Account for your child
Tips:
- Make sure your Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 is running on the latest watch software.
- If your child’s account isn’t created yet, you can create it during the setup.
How to set up Galaxy Watch for Kids
You need to create a Samsung account for yourself and your child. Learn how to create a Samsung account.
Set up Galaxy Watch for Kids- On your Samsung Galaxy phone, open the Galaxy Wearable app.
- On the “Galaxy Wearable” screen, tap Next.
- Select your child’s Samsung watch.
- If you can’t find your device, tap Scan again.
- Check the number on your watch.
- Tap Confirm.
- Your child’s watch might take a few minutes to get ready.
- To set up your child’s watch, tap Start setup for your child
Next
- Select your Google Account.
- Tap your child’s account.
- If your child’s account isn’t created yet:
- Tap Create account for child
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
- Tap Create account for child
- If your child’s account isn’t created yet:
- When you find “You’re all set!” message, you’re done with the set up.
Next Customize your child’s Galaxy Watch for Kids settings
Learn how to set up school timeImportant: School time is available on select watches with Wear OS 5 or later.
Important: Make sure you have a compatible device. Check your device compatibility.
- On your device, open Family Link
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- If you haven’t set up Family Link yet, get started here.
- Select your child.
- At the bottom left, tap Screen time
- To turn on "School time," tap School time card.
- To make changes to the weekly schedule, tap Weekly schedule.
- To turn "School time" on or off for specific days:
- Tap Weekly schedule.
- To turn “School time” on or off, tap the text indicating the day, like Sun, Mon, or Tue.
- To change "Start time" and "End time:"
- Select a day.
- Select the Start time and End time.
- Tap Done.
- To turn "School time" on or off for specific days:
- To temporarily change today’s schedule, tap Today.
- To turn off "School time" for today:
- Turn off School time ON.
- Tap Done.
- To change the "School time" hours for today:
- Select the Start time and End time.
- Tap Done.
- To turn off "School time" for today:
- To turn on “Unlimited Apps” during School time, tap Allowed Apps.
- If you don't have any Unlimited Apps:
- Tap Select Apps.
- Change apps you want available during school time to “Unlimited Time.”
- If you already have Unlimited Apps:
- Tap Unlimited Apps.
- To add or remove Unlimited Apps, tap View app list.
- If you don't have any Unlimited Apps:
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Add a school time break
- On your device, open Family Link
- Select your child.
- At the bottom left, tap Screen time
- Tap Weekly schedule.
- Select a day.
- Tap Break.
- Select the Start time and End time.
- To apply break for the whole week, select Apply Monday-Friday.
- Tap Done.
Delete a school time break
- On your device, open Family Link
- Select your child.
- At the bottom left, tap Screen time
- Tap Weekly schedule.
- Select a day.
- Tap Break
Tip: If your child’s watch has connectivity, changes take effect immediately.
You can approve which apps your child has on their watch. Your child can send you a request when they want to add an app.
- On your child’s watch, they select an app they want.
- They receive a notification to ask a parent. Your child taps Send request
- On your device, you receive a notification. When you open the notification, you receive information about the app, like cost.
- Tap either:
- Review: To review more information about the app and approve or deny the app download.
- Deny: To block your child from downloading the app on their watch.
Tips:
- Your child receives a notification of your decision on their watch.
- You can also manage app download requests through your Play Store settings:
- Tap Play Store
- Tap Manage approval requests.
- Tap Play Store
- Not all apps are available to find and download on a kids watch. App selection may be limited based on standalone capability for app to work without requiring connectivity to a phone or age appropriateness if you decide to limit app access through Family Link.
Your child can check from their Galaxy Watch the parental control settings.
- On your Galaxy Watch for Kids, open Settings
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- Tap Google
- Your child can review:
- School time: The schedule for today, parent can change settings for school time, and allowed apps during school time.
- Blocked apps: List of blocked apps.
- Call & text: Parent managed contacts and if they are blocked from specific contacts.
- Your child can always call emergency services.
- Your child can text or call their emergency contacts if they are added as approved contacts.
- Location: Parent can monitor your watch’s location.
- Other settings: You can find supervision details like:
- Content restrictions for Google products
- Account settings
- Device information