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Put Kinden on your iPhone

About 5 minutes. You need your iPhone or iPad, your email, and an invite code from your family organiser. Setting up a new family? Start with Organiser setup.

1. Install the app

  1. Watch for an email from TestFlight saying you were invited to test Kinden. It goes to your Apple ID email.
  2. On your iPhone, install TestFlight from the App Store (it is free, made by Apple).
  3. Open the invite email on the same iPhone and tap View in TestFlight, then Accept and Install.
  4. Kinden is now on your home screen. It updates itself through TestFlight.

Kids with Ask to Buy: a parent approves the TestFlight download on their own phone.

2. Join the family

  1. Open Kinden. Allow notifications if you want reminders (you can say no).
  2. Ask your organiser for an invite code. It works once and lasts 7 days.
  3. Go to the Settings tab. Type the code into Invite code first.
  4. Enter your email and tap Email me a sign-in link.
  5. Open that email on the same iPhone and tap the link. Kinden opens and you are in.
  6. On the Todos tab, tap the Me menu at the top and pick yourself, so "Assigned to me" and your colours are right.

Organiser setup (once per family)

  1. Install Kinden as in step 1.
  2. Open Settings > Family members. Rename, add or remove people so the list matches your family. Do this before you sign in: after sync, people can be renamed but not removed.
  3. In Sync, leave Invite code empty, enter your email and sign in with the link. Signing in without a code creates your family and uploads it.
  4. For each other person: in Sync > Invite, pick them and tap Get code. Send them the code and a link to this page.

A code works once and expires after 7 days. Lost or expired? Get a new one the same way.

If something goes wrong

The link opened Safari, not Kinden
Open the email on the iPhone where Kinden is installed. Or long-press the link, copy it, and paste it into Code or link in Settings.
I see an empty family
You signed in without the invite code. Settings > Sign out, ask for a new code, type it in first, then sign in again.
No sign-in email arrived
Check spam, wait a minute, then tell your organiser.
TestFlight says the build expired
Your organiser uploads a new one; TestFlight will offer it. Your lists are safe either way.
No email of your own (younger kids)
Use a parent's phone or iPad: sign in once as the parent, then switch the Me menu to the kid.