Talking with Qbit

Here’s the whole trick: you type a question, and Qbit answers it. Everything else in this guide is a bonus on top.

1. Open Qbit and stay on the Home page.
2. Tap the box that says "Ask me anything..." just under the greeting.
3. Type your question. The box grows as you type, up to about five lines, then it starts to scroll.
4. Tap the paper plane Send button. On a computer you can just press Enter.
5. Qbit takes you to the Conversation page. You’ll see your question at the top, then the little Qbit creature bobbing with "Qbit is thinking...", then her answer.

• Ask the way you’d ask a person. Full sentences are welcome, and long questions are fine.
• If you tap the box while you’re signed out, the sign in window opens first.

Good to know: Good to know: the Home box always starts a brand new conversation, and it clears any photos or documents you had lined up. To carry on a conversation you’ve already started, use the reply box on the Conversation page.

Say it once and she’s got it. Qbit remembers the last few turns, so you can say "make it shorter" or "what about Tuesday?" and she knows exactly what you mean.

1. On the Conversation page, tap the box at the bottom that says "Reply to Qbit...".
2. Type your follow up.
3. Tap Send, or press Enter on a computer.
4. Your new question and her new answer appear underneath the ones before.

• Follow up questions almost always beat starting over. "Now do it for six people" is faster than retyping the whole thing.
• Short nudges work. Try "simpler please", "in a table", or "what would you do?"

Good to know: Good to know: Qbit keeps about 40 messages in mind, which is 20 back and forths, and very long answers get trimmed to keep things quick. In a really long thread, the earliest details can start to fade.

The Enter key is a little bit clever. On a computer it sends, and on a phone it starts a new line, so a stray thumb near the return key never fires off a half finished question. Qbit sorts this out on her own, so there’s nothing to set up.

1. On a computer or laptop: type your question, then press Enter to send. Press Shift and Enter together if you want a line break instead.
2. On a phone or tablet: type your question, press return whenever you want a new line, then tap the paper plane Send button when you’re ready.

• Shift and Enter always makes a new line, on any device. Handy for a list or a longer note.
• Attaching a keyboard to a tablet doesn’t change this on its own, so use the Send button there.

Fancy a clean slate? "+ New" gives you one, so an old topic stops colouring the answers. Your old conversation stays saved and waiting for you.

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1. On the Conversation page, look at the top right of the bar under the header.
2. Tap the "+ New" pill.
3. The thread clears and the reply box is ready for you. Your next question starts a brand new conversation.

• The conversation you just left is still sitting in Recents whenever you want it.
• It’s perfect for a complete change of subject, say going from a work email to dinner ideas.

Good to know: Good to know: "+ New" also clears the folder chip, any photos or documents you had lined up, and any Storytime or tutoring context. If you’re in the middle of a story, it takes you back to the Storytime page to start a new one.

You’ll always know where you’re headed. The arrow in the top left carries the name of the page you came from, every time.

1. Look at the top left of the Conversation page.
2. Read the label next to the arrow. It’ll say Home, Recents, Settings, My Documents, Setup & Support, or the name of the folder you asked from.
3. Tap it to go back there. Your conversation is kept and waiting for you in Recents.

• It’s a small thing, and it means you can always see exactly where you’ll land.

Good to know: Good to know: once you’re back on Home, you’ll find that conversation again in Recents, or on the folder page it was filed to. That’s the way back in, since the bar at the bottom has no Conversation tab.

Start something in the school pick up line and finish it at the kitchen table. Your conversations follow you from one device to the next, with every turn intact.

1. Sign in to Qbit on the other device.
2. Tap Recents in the bar at the bottom.
3. Tap the conversation card you want. The whole card is the button, and the small icons on it do their own separate jobs.
4. The full thread loads onto the Conversation page, and your next reply carries straight on from where you left off.

• Folder pages have their own Recent list too, so a conversation filed to a folder can be picked back up from there.
• It’s all there the moment you sign in. No syncing, no exporting.

Long answers arrive word by word, so you can start reading straight away. Your child’s answers work a little differently, and there’s a good reason for it.

1. Ask something that needs a longer answer.
2. The "Qbit is thinking..." line is replaced by text that grows as she writes it, with a blinking cursor at the end.
3. When she finishes, the row of actions appears under the last answer: thumbs, folder, share, download, print and delete.

• You can start reading from the top while the rest is still arriving.
• The action row turns up once she’s done, so if it isn’t there yet, she’s still writing.

Good to know: Good to know: your child’s reply is checked in full before any of it reaches the screen, so your child sees the thinking indicator and then the whole answer at once. That’s on purpose, and it’s one of the ways Qbit protects kids.

A little bit of polish you’ll feel more than notice. When you send, your question slides to the top of the screen and the answer unfolds beneath it, so you’re reading comfortably instead of pinned to the bottom next to the keyboard.

1. Send a question.
2. Watch your question move to the top of the screen.
3. Read the answer as it fills in underneath, top to bottom, the way you’d read anything else.

• If you scroll up to re read an earlier answer while you wait, Qbit leaves you right where you are.
• On a phone, this is the difference between reading comfortably and reading in the strip above the keyboard.

Qbit can actually look at a picture. A page of homework, a rash, a fridge full of odds and ends, a screenshot of an error message. Show her, then ask.

1. Tap the round "+" button to the left of the message box.
2. Choose Camera to take a picture now, or Photo to pick one from your library.
3. The first time only, read the short photo agreement, tick the box, then tap "Agree & continue".
4. Pick up to 4 pictures. Each one appears as a small thumbnail above the box, with an X if you want to remove it.
5. Type your question about the picture and send.

• On a computer you can drag an image straight onto the message box, or copy an image and paste it in.
• Good questions to try: "what is this plant", "is this maths homework right", "what can I cook with these".
• Photos ride along with that one question and stay out of your photo library.

Good to know: Good to know: starting a new conversation clears any pictures you had lined up. For a child, picture features follow the parent’s "Photos & images" setting in Child Settings, which is on by default.

The very first time you attach a picture, Qbit asks you to agree to one short thing. It takes five seconds, you only do it once, and it unlocks her picture editing abilities.

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1. Tap "+" then Photo or Camera for the first time.
2. Read the agreement panel. In short: the pictures you upload are yours, and you won’t use Qbit to make misleading or harmful pictures of real people.
3. Tick the checkbox. The "Agree & continue" button lights up as soon as you do.
4. Tap "Agree & continue". Your photo picker opens straight away.

• It’s saved to your account, not the device, so it follows you to your phone, tablet and laptop and you’re never asked again.
• If you tap away without agreeing, nothing gets attached and nothing is lost. Come back and try again whenever you like.

That 40 page school handbook, the insurance letter, the spreadsheet you’ve been avoiding. Hand it to Qbit and ask her what it actually says.

1. Tap the "+" button next to the message box and choose Document.
2. Pick one file or several. PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, plain text, CSV and pictures all work.
3. In the "Add to chat" panel, choose how she should treat them. "Just for this conversation" tidies itself away after 14 days of not being used. "Save to My Documents" means she remembers it in every future conversation.
4. If you chose Save to My Documents, you can pick a folder from the dropdown.
5. Tap "Add to chat". Each file shows up as a chip above the box reading Uploading, then Indexing, then Ready.
6. Once a chip says Ready, ask your question about it.

• Wait for Ready before you ask. Indexing is her reading it properly, and it’s usually quick.
• Uploading is free at the moment, so upload away.
• Try "what does this mean for me", "pull out every date", or "summarise this in five bullet points".

Good to know: Good to know: you can attach up to 8 documents to one conversation, and each file can be up to 25 MB. When a parent has turned pictures off for a child, image files can’t be uploaded this way, and the child sees a polite message saying so.

This is the one people fall for. You talk, she answers out loud, then she starts listening again on her own. Hands free, and genuinely lovely while you’re cooking or driving.

1. Make sure the message box is empty. When it is, the send arrow turns into a waveform button.
2. Tap the waveform.
3. The first time, allow microphone access when your device asks.
4. Just talk. When you stop, Qbit makes a small sound to say she heard you, thinks for a moment, then answers out loud.
5. She starts listening again by herself, so keep going as long as you like.
6. Tap the X in the bottom bar when you’re done.

• A glow at the bottom of the screen turns purple while you’re talking and blue while she’s answering, and the words appear above it as you go.
• Only the text of the conversation lands in your history. Nothing you say is recorded or stored.
• If you’ve added Qbit to your home screen, that app asks for its own microphone permission, separate from your browser. If it’s blocked, Qbit spells out exactly where to go.

Good to know: Good to know: Voice Mode always starts a brand new conversation, and whatever you had open stays right where it was in Recents. Children can use Voice Mode too, and a spoken question goes through exactly the same checks as a typed one.

A spoken conversation goes better with a few handy controls. Here’s how to stop her mid sentence, take a breath without her listening, or switch back to typing without losing the thread.

1. Tap the microphone button in the bottom bar to pause listening. It turns into a red mic with a line through it. Tap it again to carry on.
2. Tap the strip just above the bottom bar, over the glow, to finish your turn early or to cut Qbit off while she’s speaking.
3. Tap the gear in the top right, then pick 0.9x, 1x or 1.2x for how fast she talks. Qbit remembers your choice.
4. Tap "Type a reply..." to close the voice screen and land in the very same conversation, typed.
5. Tap the Qbit logo at the top left to close it and go Home.
6. Tap the X in the bottom bar to end the conversation. On a computer, Escape does the same thing.

• 1.2x is a small change that makes long answers feel much brisker.
• "Type a reply..." keeps the same thread. It was a normal conversation all along, just spoken.

Good to know: Good to know: the spot for cutting in is a wide invisible strip just above the bar rather than a labelled button, so nobody interrupts her with a stray thumb.

Sometimes you’d rather hear it than read it. A bedtime story, a recipe while your hands are busy, a long answer on a car journey. Just ask her to read it aloud.

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1. Ask in a way that makes it clear you want to listen. "Read this aloud", "read it out loud", "narrate this", or "tell me a bedtime story out loud" all work.
2. When the answer arrives, it’ll have a Play button on it.
3. Tap Play to hear it. Tap it again (it now says Stop) to cut it off.

• This is different from Voice Mode. Here you stay on the normal Conversation page, and just that one answer is read out.
• If Qbit’s own voice can’t load for any reason, your device’s built in speech steps in and reads it instead.

Good to know: Good to know: the Play button turns up when Qbit understands you’d like to listen. If you don’t see it, ask again and say "read this out loud".

When she nails it, or when she really misses, tell us. It takes one tap, and it genuinely shapes what gets fixed next.

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1. Scroll to the row of small icons at the end of the conversation.
2. Tap the thumbs up or the thumbs down.
3. A little comment box opens. Add detail if you want and tap Save, or tap Skip. Either way, your rating is already recorded.
4. Tapping a thumb that’s already lit clears the rating again.

• A one line comment helps far more than the thumb on its own. "Got the dates wrong" is gold.
• On a computer you can send the comment with Ctrl and Enter, or Cmd and Enter on a Mac.

Good to know: Good to know: there’s one rating for the whole conversation, sitting under the latest answer.

Qbit gave you a brilliant answer and your sister needs to see it. One tap turns the whole conversation into a web page with its own link, ready to send however you like.

1. Tap the share icon in the row under the conversation, or the share button in the app header while you’re on the Conversation page.
2. The share panel opens with the subject already written for you: your name plus your question.
3. Pick how to send it. Type an address and let Qbit email it, or use Messages, WhatsApp, X, Copy link, or More to open your device’s own share options.
4. Send it.

• Copy link is the flexible one. Paste it into any app you like.
• The header share button changes with where you are. On a conversation with saved answers it says "Share this conversation", and everywhere else it says "Share Qbit".

Good to know: Good to know: anyone with the link can read that conversation without signing in, so send it to the people you mean to. Children can create share links while the parent’s "Sharing with others" setting is on, which it is by default. With it off, a child gets a plain text share instead.

Some conversations are keepers. The packing list, the plan for the extension, the letter you finally worked out how to write. Save the whole thing as a PDF on your device.

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1. Tap the download arrow in the row of icons under the conversation.
2. The button dims for a moment while Qbit builds the PDF, then the file downloads to your device.

• The PDF is titled with your first question, so it’s easy to find later.
• It’s yours to keep, email on, or file away like any other document.

Good to know: Good to know: you get the whole conversation, start to finish, not just the last answer. Every answer that saved properly is included.

Some things belong on paper. A chore chart, a recipe, a revision plan. Qbit lays the conversation out beautifully for printing.

1. Tap the printer icon in the row of icons under the conversation.
2. Choose your printer in the dialog your device opens, or pick Save as PDF if you’d rather have a file.

• The layout is made for paper, so you get a clean page rather than a screenshot of the app with everything cut off.
• Perfect for anything that needs to live on a fridge door or in a school bag.

Your history, your call. You can remove any conversation in two taps.

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1. Tap the bin icon in the row of icons under the conversation.
2. Confirm in the dialog, which tells you exactly how many messages are about to go.
3. A small message confirms it, the thread clears, and you land back on Home.

• Just want it out of the way? Tap "+ New" instead, and it’ll wait for you in Recents.
• You can also delete conversations from the Recents page.

Good to know: Good to know: deleting is permanent, and it removes every message in the thread, not just the last answer.

When you ask from inside a folder, a small chip appears above the message box saying "Answering from" and the folder’s name. It’s Qbit letting you know exactly what she’s drawing on.

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1. Open a folder page and type in its message box, or tap one of its starter chips.
2. In the conversation, look just above the message box for the chip reading "Answering from ...". It carries that folder’s own icon or photo.
3. Tap the small x on the chip if you’d like her to stop using that folder for the rest of the conversation.

• The chip means two things at once: she’s answering using that folder’s documents, and the conversation will be filed there.
• It shows above the Home box as well as the Conversation box, so you always know before you send.

Good to know: Good to know: starting a new conversation, opening something from Recents, or tapping "+ New" clears the chip, so every unrelated question starts with a clean slate.

Qbit’s answers come out beautifully laid out, with headings, lists, bold, real tables and links you can tap. Walls of text need not apply.

1. Ask for something with structure, for example "compare these three options in a table" or "give me a numbered checklist".
2. Read the answer as laid out. A wide table scrolls sideways on its own on a narrow phone rather than getting squashed.
3. Tap any link to open it in a new tab.

• Asking for the shape you want really works. "As a table", "as bullet points", "as a numbered list", "just three lines".
• Longer answers get headings, so you can skim to the part you care about.
• When she sets a block apart, say a sample email or a recipe, it appears as a plain evenly spaced block that’s easy to copy out cleanly.

Real life interrupts. Someone calls, you check a message, the phone goes back in your pocket. Come back and your answer is right there waiting.

1. Ask a question that’ll take her a moment.
2. Switch to another app, or lock the phone, while she works.
3. Come back to Qbit. The conversation redraws itself with the full answer in place.

• This matters most on a phone, where the browser quietly pauses things in the background.
• Just come back. No need to ask again or refresh.

Four short coaching notes from us, all in one place. They’re the difference between a fine answer and one that actually solves your problem.

1. From Home, tap the row called "Tips & Ideas for Incredible Results".
2. The page opens already scrolled to Tips & Tricks.
3. Read the four. In short: be specific, use voice when your hands are busy, save your important dates, and ask a follow up rather than starting over.

• The tip about dates has a link built into it that drops you straight onto the right part of My Profile.
• You can also reach the same page from Support & Setup, under Tips & Tricks.
• Being specific is the big one. "Dinner ideas" is fine. "Dinner for four, nothing spicy, twenty minutes, I have chicken and rice" is transformative.