Apple Watch For Kids: Smartphones are now the need of the hour. A smartphone is useful for even the smallest details. But, it has side effects as well. So, their parents are looking for many options how to keep children away from it. When will children come home after going to school, class? If you don’t get stuck in rainwater, right? There are many questions in parents’ minds that if they fall while playing, who will inform them about it. So now Apple company has come up with something special for these worried parents.
Apple has announced the feature ‘Apple Watch for your kids’ in India. This feature will be useful for every parent; Those who think that their children should not use smartphones at a young age. But, those kids should still have some kind of device; So that they can always be in touch with the children. Also they can review where they are, what they are doing from time to time. That means parents can communicate with their children even if it is far away. Meanwhile, they can also send messages, calls, know about their health, fitness; which you usually get on Apple Watch.
How to set up Apple Watch for your kids ?
The ‘Apple Watch for Your Kids’ feature has now been launched in India. But, this feature will be available for such users; Who owns an Apple Watch Series 4 or later, or an Apple Watch SE; which is connected to an iPhone 8 or later with newer watchOS and iOS. Apple Watch requires a wireless service plan to activate cellular service. Currently, Apple has only partnered with Jio for this feature. So if you want to try this feature, you need to get a new Jio connection for Apple Watch. Here are the things you need to keep in mind to set up Apple Watch for your kids…
1. At least one of the parents must have an iPhone.
2. This feature will be activated on the child’s Apple Watch after pairing with the iPhone.
3. Setting up the eSIM in the watch.
How to control children?
Apple Watch will allow children their independence and parents to take care of them. Parents will decide who kids can contact from Apple Watch. Children’s location will be tracked. Apple Watch will have a DND profile; Which will also provide information about the child’s school schedule, extra classes. Parents can also control when to block any notification or call. Parents can schedule downtime from Settings. When you set downtime, kids can only access selected phone calls and selected apps.
Children can access the App Store through the Apple Watch; But parents have to give permission to download everything from their iPhone. Young children can access emergency services through the Watch. Parents can create a profile of their children with information such as allergies, blood type, age, height etc.; Which can be useful in emergency situations.
