Every child in your family can have their own set of lessons and games. You decide what each child sees: switch off a whole subject, keep only a few activities in one language, or remove a single game from Playtime. Your child only sees what's on, so their home screen stays simple and matches where they are right now.

A new child starts with everything on. If you never change anything, the app works exactly as before.

Open a child's settings

  1. On the home screen, tap Settings in the top right and answer the grown-up question to open "Settings".
  2. Under "Parental Controls", tap "Family account", then "Your children".
  3. Tap the child's card itself (not the Edit button). A screen called "Mia's settings", with your child's name, opens.

This screen gathers everything that belongs to one child:

  • Profile: photo, name and age, with an "Edit name, photo, age" button.
  • "Learning & play": the main topic of this guide.
  • "Time": "Daily goal", plus this child's screen time limit and bedtime.
  • "Lessons": this child's "Unlock every lesson" and "Night maze challenge".

On iPad the screen uses two columns: learning on one side, time and lessons on the other.

There is a second way in. In the "Add a child" or "Edit child details" form, right below "Languages to learn", a "Learning & play" row says "Everything on" or "3 items off". Tap "Change" to open the same list.

Reading the "Learning & play" list

Each subject has one row, in the same order as on your child's home screen: Art, the five languages under "Learn languages", Math, Music and Playtime. Each row shows:

  • the subject's picture (a flag for languages) and its name;
  • a status line: "5 of 7 on", "Off" for a subject that is switched off, or "Not learning this language";
  • a switch for the whole subject;
  • an arrow: tap the row to open the activities inside. Each one has a check mark, a picture and a name. Tap an activity to turn just that one on or off.

There is no Save button. Every change is saved the moment you make it.

Switch off a whole subject

Turning off the switch for Art, Math, Music or Playtime turns off every activity in it. That subject's tile disappears from your child's home screen and the other tiles move to fill the gap. If you turn off Playtime, the Playtime strip on the home screen is hidden too. Switch it back on and everything returns.

For example, if your 3-year-old isn't ready for "Math" yet, switch the whole subject off so the home screen only shows things they can enjoy.

Keep only some activities in a subject

Tap a subject's row to open its list, then uncheck what doesn't suit your child yet. A few common setups:

  • In Art, keep "Coloring" and "Free drawing" and switch off "Advanced drawing" for a younger child.
  • In Math, a second grader who has mastered "Math" and "Write numbers" can keep just "Thinking math", "More math" and "Times Tables".
  • In Japanese, an older child can keep only "Kanji" and "Words & grammar".
  • In Playtime, switch off "Night maze" if it keeps your child up past bedtime.

Language switches are "Languages to learn"

The five languages sit together under "Learn languages". A language's switch decides whether your child learns that language at all. It is the same setting as "Languages to learn" in the child form, so changing one changes the other. Two rules apply:

  • Your child must learn at least one language. Try to switch off the last one and the app shows "Choose at least one language."
  • A language your child learns needs at least one activity. You can't uncheck the last one; a short note appears under the row instead. To turn everything off, switch off the language. This way, tapping a language never leads to an empty page.

Languages your child doesn't learn are greyed out and don't open.

What you can't switch off

  • "My art room": the pictures your child colored belong to them. It's not a lesson, so it always stays open.
  • The "Sticker Bag" and "Badges" in Playtime.

What your child will see

Anything you switch off disappears from every place your child can reach on their own:

  • subject tiles on the home screen and activity tiles inside each subject;
  • game cards in Playtime;
  • "Three things today": no coloring task when Coloring is off, and no writing practice for a language your child doesn't learn;
  • the grown-up "Search" (the magnifier on the home screen) won't lead there either.

Stars and progress in a switched-off activity are kept. Turn it back on and your child picks up where they left off.

Good to know

  • Settings are per child. Turning off "Times Tables" for a younger child doesn't affect an older sibling.
  • Activities added in future updates turn on automatically for every child. Switch them off only if they don't fit.
  • With a Dino Kids account, "Learning & play" follows your child to every device on the account. Set it on your phone, and the family iPad updates after it syncs. Without an account, the setting stays on this device.
  • If a child's settings screen says "These appear once this device finishes syncing your child's profile.", you've just signed in and the profile hasn't arrived yet. Wait a moment and open it again.
  • The old places still work: "Screen time and playtime" and "Lessons" in "Settings" list every child at once, with the same data as each child's settings screen.

If a step isn't clear, or the app behaves differently from this guide, write to us at dinokids@digidinos.com.