Safety alerts and staying in the loop

Qbit reads along while your child chats and raises a flag as soon as something looks like it needs you. You get the category, when it happened and your child’s own words, so you’re never left guessing.

1. Open 'My Kids', tap your child, and expand 'Alerts'.
2. When everything’s quiet, you’ll see a shield and the words 'All clear. No current alerts.'
3. When something has come up, each alert shows the category, how long ago it happened, the flagged snippet, and which channels Qbit used to tell you.
4. Tap 'View all alerts →' for the full page, with its Current, Archive and Saved tabs.

• She watches for bullying and hate, self-harm, depression, sexual content, violence and weapons, substance use, body image, risky apps and sites, profanity, and possible grooming.
• An alert can start in a Qbit chat, a folder name or description, or a folder photo. On the full alerts page, each source gets its own little icon.
• If Qbit’s usual content check is ever unavailable, she switches to her word lists, and the alert wears a 'Scored with word lists' chip with a one line explanation. You’ll always know how it was scored.

Good to know: Good to know: this card shows current alerts, and the ones you’ve archived are waiting on the full alerts page. Possible grooming is always treated as high priority, so it sits outside the categories you can tune.

Pick the ways you’d like to hear from Qbit, child by child, and choose the address your alerts land in. That way an alert finds you wherever you happen to be.

1. Open 'My Kids', tap your child, expand 'Alerts', then tap 'Configure alerts'.
2. Flip 'Email me' on or off. Tap the small pencil beside the address to change where alerts go.
3. Flip 'Push notifications' on or off.
4. For text messages, tap 'Verify phone to enable SMS' and complete the two step verification. The SMS switch then unlocks and turns itself on.
5. Every change saves the moment you make it, with a 'Saved' confirmation.

• Once it’s verified, your number shows masked on the screen, for example +1 (555) •••-4567.
• Changing the email address here also updates where your activity reports go, so the two stay in step.
• Standard message and data rates apply to texts, and replying STOP cancels them.

Good to know: Good to know: email and push come switched on from the start. Texts join in once you’ve verified a mobile number, and until then that switch stays greyed out.

Every family draws the line in its own place, and a nine year old and a fifteen year old live in pretty different worlds. You can tell Qbit how eagerly to flag each kind of thing, one category at a time.

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1. Open 'Configure alerts' under your child’s 'Alerts' section.
2. Scroll down to 'Sensitivity per category'.
3. For any of Bullying, Self-harm, Depression, Sexual, Violence & weapons, Substance use, Body image, Risky apps / sites and Profanity, tap one of the four buttons: off, less sensitive, default, more sensitive.
4. That’s it. Your choice saves the moment you tap.

• More sensitive means more alerts, less sensitive means fewer. Every setting is a fair choice, and you can change it again whenever you like.
• Any category can be switched off completely, Self-harm included, if that’s the right call for your child.
• Settings are per child, so your teenager and your eight year old can sit at very different levels.

Good to know: Good to know: sexual content involving a minor always raises an alert whatever you choose here, and possible grooming is always on, which is why you won’t find it in this list.

This is your home base for alerts. One page for what needs you now, what you’ve already handled, and what you’d like to hold on to.

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1. Open it with 'View all alerts →' on your child’s page, or tap the alert chip in the top bar.
2. Use the three tabs across the top: Current, Archive and Saved.
3. On any alert, tap 'Save' to keep it, 'Archive' to clear it out of Current, or 'Export' to download it.
4. In Archive, tap 'Restore' to bring an alert back to Current.
5. In Current, 'Clear all' archives the whole tab in one tap.
6. Tap the back arrow to return to your child’s settings page.

• If two or more of your children have current alerts, a row of name pills appears at the top so you can hop between them.
• 'Export' on any row gives you a PDF of that single alert, handy when you need it outside the app.
• The 'Tap to view the full conversation' line is resting for now while Qbit’s messaging screen is switched off, so tapping it won’t open anything at the moment.

Good to know: Good to know: everything you archive is kept. Archiving only changes an alert’s status, and Restore brings it right back to Current.

Some conversations belong at the kitchen table, or in a counsellor’s office. Export turns a single alert into a tidy record of that one moment, ready to sit down with your child over, or to hand to a counsellor, a school or an officer.

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1. Open the Parenting Alerts page for that child.
2. Find the alert you want.
3. Tap 'Export' on that row. The button reads 'Preparing…' while it builds.
4. The PDF downloads to your device, named qbit-safety-alert with your child’s name and the date.

• It’s a download rather than a share link, and that’s on purpose. Your child’s words stay with you and the people you choose to hand them to, instead of travelling on through forwarded links.
• The page carries your child’s name, the category, the severity, where it came from, the exact flagged text, and when and on which channels you were told.
• It also includes a short paragraph explaining what Qbit is, so someone outside your family can make sense of the page at a glance.

Good to know: Good to know: each export holds just one alert, so only what you need ever leaves the app.

The small parent and child icon at the top of the screen, the one with a number on it, counts your current alerts across all of your children. Tap it and you’re right there with the alerts themselves.

1. Glance at the top bar. The chip appears whenever there’s at least one current alert.
2. Tap it.
3. Qbit opens the Parenting Alerts page for the child with the newest alert, with name pills if more than one child has something waiting.

• Past ninety-nine, it reads 99+.
• The number goes down as you archive alerts, so working through them clears the chip.
• If you’ve added Qbit to your home screen, the app icon carries the same count.

Good to know: Good to know: the chip tucks itself away when the count reaches zero and when you’re signed out, so a clear top bar means nothing’s waiting for you.

A recap email tells you how your child’s week with Qbit went, right in your inbox, no digging required. Each child gets their own schedule and their own contents.

1. Open 'My Kids', tap your child, and expand 'Activity reporting'.
2. Tap the pencil beside 'Send reports to:' if this child’s reports should go to a different address. Leave it blank and Qbit uses your account email.
3. Choose a frequency: Off, Daily or Weekly.
4. Set the delivery time. The time row hides itself if you choose Off.
5. Switch on what you’d like included: Topics discussed, Time-of-day usage patterns, Flag concerning content, Full conversation transcripts.
6. Tap 'Save reporting settings'.

• Weekly recaps go out on Sunday evening, and the delivery time you choose is honoured to the hour, Pacific time.
• The 'Save reporting settings' button saves the frequency, the time and the includes. The recipient address saves on its own, from the pencil.
• Even with 'Full conversation transcripts' switched on, the email keeps raw chat text out of your inbox. It points you back into the app whenever you want the detail.

Good to know: Good to know: recaps start once you pick Daily or Weekly yourself. Weekly may already look highlighted on the form, so give it a tap anyway, because a child whose frequency was never actually set gets skipped when the emails go out.