Qbit Teens: accounts for ages 13 to 17

Teens aged 13 to 17 can have a Qbit of their own on your Qbit+ plan, with you in the loop from day one. Here’s how to create a teen account, set up sign-in, and shape the controls and school tools to fit your family.

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Qbit Teens is your family home base, here’s what’s on itQbit Teens is where you look after everything about your teen’s Qbit. Every teen you’ve added is right there with their age band, their alerts and their controls, and it’s where you add someone new.
Qbit Teens comes with a paid plan, here’s how it worksTeen accounts are part of Qbit+, the paid plan. One subscription covers you and every teen you add, with nothing extra to pay per teen. Here’s what that includes and what it means day to day.
Adding your teen to Qbit, here’s howYour teen gets a Qbit of their own for homework, projects, questions and curiosity, with the protections for their age already switched on and every setting, alert and detail at your fingertips.
The Teen Account Notice, what you’re agreeing toBefore your teen’s account switches on, Qbit shows you plainly what’s collected from them, what you’ll be able to see, and what you can ask Qbit to delete. You read it and agree on your teen’s behalf, and they’re ready to go.
Your teen signs in with an email and password, here’s how to set it upTeens sign in to Qbit the grown-up way, with an email address and a password, so there’s no coming to find you for a code every time they pick up a new device. You set the password, you can reset it, and you can take it back.
A quick sign-in code for your teen’s phone or tablet, here’s howSetting up a new device, or a shared tablet that stays at home? A six-digit code or a QR code from your phone signs your teen in and pairs that device to your account, no password typing needed.
Fixing your teen’s name or date of birth is quick, here’s howTyped a nickname, or got the birth year wrong? Both take seconds to fix, and Qbit works out the age band again so everything fits.
One setting manages photo options for your teen, here’s how to set itOne setting decides whether your teen can upload and save real photographs and use the tools that put a real person into a picture they create. With it off, they can still ask Qbit to draw anything from a description.
Sharing is your call, here’s how to set it and see what your teen has sharedYour teen can share a conversation with friends, family or a teacher with one link. You decide whether that’s on, and you get the full list of every conversation they’ve shared.
See what Qbit knows about your teenQbit picks things up from conversations: friends, teachers, pets, sports, school, health, plans, and the odd worry. You get to see all of it, the living profile Qbit built plus the facts your teen added themselves, and you can remove anything you’d rather Qbit didn’t keep.
Notification overload? Here’s how to quiet one teen’s notificationsIf one teen’s Qbit is sending more your way than you’d like, you can quiet the notifications for that teen alone, without touching the settings for anyone else in the family.
See every device your teen has signed in on, and how to remove oneOne row for every device your teen has signed in on, with when it was last used and roughly where. See one you don’t recognize? You can end that session on the spot.
Get a heads-up on new sign-insThis one watches the front door. A sign-in on a new device, a sign-in from a new country, or a run of failed password attempts on your teen’s account, and Qbit lets you know.
Pausing, resuming, or deleting a teen account, here’s how“Pause” stops your teen using Qbit for a while and keeps everything in their account exactly as it is. “Delete” removes the account and its data for good, after a 30-day window in case you change your mind.
See exactly what your teen sees, here’s howWhy guess what your teen’s Qbit looks like when you can go and look? “Use Qbit as” signs you in as them, so you see their Home page, their conversations, their subjects and their settings exactly as they do.
The teen settings page remembers how you left it, here’s how it worksThere’s a lot on a teen’s settings page, so every long section folds down to a single title row, and Qbit remembers which ones you like open.
Your teen’s eighteenth birthday means a lot, here’s what happensOn their 18th birthday the teen controls come off and your teen, now an adult, takes over their Qbit. Their conversations, their folders and everything they made stay with them.
What your teen doesn’t see when they’re signed inWhen your teen signs in they get the same Qbit you do, trimmed to the part that’s theirs. The parent pages, the plan and billing pages and the ads are gone from view, so there’s nothing to wander into and nothing to buy.
Your teen’s folders grow with them, here’s howYour teen’s Home page arrives already set up for their age. A thirteen-year-old and a seventeen-year-old open Qbit and each find a starting set of folders made for them.
“My Subjects” is your teen’s set of school subjects“My Subjects” is your teen’s shelf of school subjects. Each one is a folder that holds their homework, builds pop quizzes from it, and earns badges. Your teen can rename the preset subjects or create new ones.
Inside a subject, here’s how to ask Qbit, log homework and take a quizA subject is a whole school subject in one place: somewhere to ask Qbit about it, add homework, get tutoring, and take a quiz Qbit builds from that very homework.
Asking Qbit about one subject, here’s howThe box at the top of a subject page is a shortcut into a conversation that already knows which subject your teen means.
How badges are earnedThe checkbox is the fun bit. Every piece of homework your teen completes counts toward their homework badges.
Photograph a worksheet, it’s the fastest wayA photo of a worksheet is far easier than typing it out. Point the camera at the page and the homework lands in the subject your teen is in.
Adding homework from a file on the device, here’s howHomework that’s already a file, a PDF from school or a picture in the camera roll, can go straight in.
Deleting a subject, and what goes with itWhen a course is over, the subject can go in a few taps. Here’s what leaves with it, so there are no surprises.
A wrong answer is just a teachable momentA missed question turns into another chance. Qbit explains why that answer was tempting, then offers one more question on the same idea.
The badge display, and why the locked ones are on showBadges are your teen’s trophy shelf, with every badge they’ve earned across their subjects and every one still waiting to be won.
Six badges to collect, here’s exactly how to earn each oneEvery subject has the same six badges, so your teen always knows what it takes to reach the next one.
Explanations that really land, here’s how Qbit checksWhen Qbit explains something to your teen, there’s a check that it made sense. If it didn’t, Qbit explains the same idea a genuinely different way, and then offers to work one through together.