Learn how to set and manage School time on your child’s Fitbit Ace LTE. Use School time to minimize distractions by restricting access to games and Bit Valley and silencing notifications.
To avoid distracting your child in class, you should enable School time. While enabled, your child’s Fitbit Ace LTE doesn't ring, receive incoming calls, or receive message notifications. Your child can still call and message you if they need to.
Set up School time in the Fitbit Ace app
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Open the Fitbit Ace app
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Find your child’s card and tap Settings
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Tap School time
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Turn on Weekly schedule.
Manage School time
To adjust your child’s school time schedule:
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Open the Fitbit Ace app
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Find your child’s card and tap Settings
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Tap School time
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To set a weekly schedule, turn On
Weekly schedule at the top of the screen. Turning this off disables School time.
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To change which days have school time, turn the school days On
for that day.
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To set or change the start and end time, tap into a day to adjust the schedule.
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Set a lunch break
When you set up breaks, School time is temporarily disabled during the specified time period.
- Open the Fitbit Ace app
- Find your child’s card and tap Settings
- Tap School time
- To set a lunch break, turn the setting On
- Select a start and end time.
Why can’t I call my child during School time?
To avoid distracting your child during class, Fitbit Ace LTE doesn't ring or receive incoming calls when School time is turned on. The option to call is disabled on your child’s card in the Fitbit Ace app. You can still send your child a message, but the notification is silenced.
In an emergency, most schools recommend that you contact the school directly and ask to get a message to your child. If that's not an option, you can turn off the School time feature to make a call.
If you use the Family Link app, you have the option to "Change for today."
Manage School time in Family Link
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
Schedules
- 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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Schedules 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 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
Tips:
- If your child’s watch has connectivity, changes will take effect immediately on their Fitbit Ace LTE.
- Changes to School time settings in Family Link will also be applied to the Fitbit Ace app.