What to Know

Tap Add a new profile or choose a child profile if you have already set up one. When creating an account, provide your child’s name and birthdate. If your device doesn’t have a password, you’ll be prompted to create one.

Tap Learn more to read about the different features you can control, or tap Continue.

Use the slider to choose an access level (Limited, Moderate, or Full). Underneath, you can toggle individual features. Tap Continue when you’re satisfied.

All of these settings can be changed later after you finish setting up the child profile.

Choose which apps you want to allow access to on the child profile, then tap Continue.

Choose how you want to receive notifications about your child’s activities, then tap Continue.

The first time, you may see a pop-up letting you know the profile will be added to your lock screen. Tap Continue.

In addition to creating child profiles, you can set up parental controls on your Fire tablet to prevent purchases and limit access to certain apps. Just like with switching out of kid mode, a password is required to turn off parental controls.

Go to Settings > Parental Controls and turn on Parental Controls. You can then configure controls for the active profile, or tap Household Profiles to edit restrictions for each profile.

To switch out of kid mode, swipe down from the top of the screen and tap the Profiles icon (the silhouette). Then, tap your adult profile. Enter your password to log out of the child profile. You can then tap the child profile icon to switch back to kid mode whenever you want.

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