Who can do what

Four kinds of person

Kind	What it means
Child	A name and a colour, with no login. Added by an admin. Can be tagged on events, and the adults responsible for them are reminded on their behalf.
Teen	A child who has been given their own login, for example when they get a phone. Can add their own events, to-dos and shopping items and gets their own reminders. Cannot manage the family. Giving a login always makes someone a teen. It is the admin's decision, and the admin must confirm the child is 13 or over and that they are the child's parent or legal guardian, or have their permission.
Adult	A person with a login who can be made an admin. Everyone who signs up or joins with an invite code is an adult.
Admin	An adult who manages the family: its members, roles, invites and settings.

Being an admin is about running the family. It does not give access to anyone's private items, and it does not change what a teen can see or do.

Why an admin decides, not a birthday

FamKnit deliberately does not ask for or store anyone's date of birth, so it cannot tell how old anyone is. That is why the two steps are always an admin's decision, and why the first one asks you to say so:

Giving a login means confirming two things with one tick: that the child is 13 or over, and that you are their parent or legal guardian, or have their permission to set up the account. Send invite stays switched off until you tick it. FamKnit cannot check it, so it is your statement, and it is recorded in the family's security activity with your name and the date. Do not give a login to a child under 13. The Teen label itself means “has their own login but is still looked after by the family's adults”.
Making a teen an adult is also yours to choose. Nothing happens automatically on a birthday.

This keeps control of the family with its adults, and means FamKnit holds no more personal data about your children than it needs.

The full table

If something is not listed as a Yes for a teen, the answer is No.

Can they…	Child	Teen	Adult	Admin
Having an account
Has their own login and device	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Gets their own reminders and notifications	No. Their responsible adults are reminded for them.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Can be tagged on events	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Can be assigned a to-do	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Seeing things
Sees the shared calendar, to-dos and shopping list	Has no login to see them	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sees another person's private items	Not applicable	No	No	No
Sees a teen's private items	Not applicable	Only their own	Only if they are one of that teen's responsible adults	Only if they are one of that teen's responsible adults. Being an admin is not enough.
Has adults reminded of their events on their behalf	Yes. It is the only way a child is reminded.	Yes, private events they created included	No	No
Their own things
Adds, edits and deletes their own events, to-dos and shopping items	Not applicable	Yes	Yes	Yes
Edits or deletes someone else's event	Not applicable	No	No	No
Makes an item private	Not applicable	Yes, but their responsible adults can still see it	Yes, fully private	Yes, fully private
Assigns a to-do to someone else	Not applicable	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ticks off, moves or removes items on the shared shopping list	Not applicable	Yes	Yes	Yes
Uses Quick add and Favourites	Not applicable	Yes	Yes	Yes
Uses Smart Scan and voice (the family's shared monthly allowance)	Not applicable	Yes	Yes	Yes
Imports a calendar, subscribes to the calendar feed, uses the widget, watch or Alexa	Not applicable	Yes, with their own link and their own view	Yes	Yes
Changes their own preferences, theme and notification settings	Not applicable	Yes	Yes	Yes
Managing the family
Renames the family	No	No	No	Yes
Invites an adult or rotates the invite code	No	No	No	Yes
Adds a child	No	No	No	Yes
Manages the list of shops	No	No	No	Yes
Removes a member	No	No	No	Yes
Changes someone's role	No	No	No	Yes
Gives a child their own login	No	No	No	Yes
Makes a teen an adult	No	No	No	Yes
Chooses a child's or teen's responsible adults	No	No	No	Yes
Starts deleting the family	No	No	No	Yes, and every other admin must approve
Reads the family's Security activity	No	No	No	Yes
Becomes an admin	No	Not until they are made an adult	Yes, if an admin promotes them	Already one
Their own account
Leaves the family	Not applicable	Yes	Yes	Yes, unless they are the only admin
Downloads their own data	Not applicable	Yes, after a recent sign-in	Yes, after a recent sign-in	Yes, after a recent sign-in
Deletes their own account	Not applicable	Yes, after a recent sign-in	Yes, after a recent sign-in	Yes, after a recent sign-in

Having an account

Has their own login and device
Child
No
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes
Gets their own reminders and notifications
Child
No. Their responsible adults are reminded for them.
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes
Can be tagged on events
Child
Yes
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes
Can be assigned a to-do
Child
No
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes

Seeing things

Sees the shared calendar, to-dos and shopping list
Child
Has no login to see them
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes
Sees another person's private items
Child
Not applicable
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
No
Sees a teen's private items
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Only their own
Adult
Only if they are one of that teen's responsible adults
Admin
Only if they are one of that teen's responsible adults. Being an admin is not enough.
Has adults reminded of their events on their behalf
Child
Yes. It is the only way a child is reminded.
Teen
Yes, private events they created included
Adult
No
Admin
No

Their own things

Adds, edits and deletes their own events, to-dos and shopping items
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes
Edits or deletes someone else's event
Child
Not applicable
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
No
Makes an item private
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes, but their responsible adults can still see it
Adult
Yes, fully private
Admin
Yes, fully private
Assigns a to-do to someone else
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes
Ticks off, moves or removes items on the shared shopping list
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes
Uses Quick add and Favourites
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes
Uses Smart Scan and voice (the family's shared monthly allowance)
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes
Imports a calendar, subscribes to the calendar feed, uses the widget, watch or Alexa
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes, with their own link and their own view
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes
Changes their own preferences, theme and notification settings
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes

Managing the family

Renames the family
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes
Invites an adult or rotates the invite code
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes
Adds a child
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes
Manages the list of shops
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes
Removes a member
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes
Changes someone's role
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes
Gives a child their own login
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes
Makes a teen an adult
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes
Chooses a child's or teen's responsible adults
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes
Starts deleting the family
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes, and every other admin must approve
Reads the family's Security activity
Child
No
Teen
No
Adult
No
Admin
Yes
Becomes an admin
Child
No
Teen
Not until they are made an adult
Adult
Yes, if an admin promotes them
Admin
Already one

Their own account

Leaves the family
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes
Adult
Yes
Admin
Yes, unless they are the only admin
Downloads their own data
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes, after a recent sign-in
Adult
Yes, after a recent sign-in
Admin
Yes, after a recent sign-in
Deletes their own account
Child
Not applicable
Teen
Yes, after a recent sign-in
Adult
Yes, after a recent sign-in
Admin
Yes, after a recent sign-in

Good to know:“Admin” here means an adult who is also an admin, so an admin can do everything in the Adult column as well.

Private items and a teen's responsible adults

A teen can mark their own events, to-dos and shopping items private, and that hides them from the rest of the family, including their brothers and sisters. It does not hide them from the adults who are responsible for that teen, and those adults are also reminded of the teen's events. FamKnit tells the teen this in three places: the invite email, the invite page, and a note under every Private control.

Who the responsible adults are. Every adult in the family, unless an admin narrows it for that teen. It is the same list that decides who is reminded about a child's events, on the Family tab under “Responsible adults”.
An adult is never opened up this way. Only a teen's private items are visible to their responsible adults. An adult's private items stay private from everyone, admins included.
An adult's private event that tags a teen is still private. The teen's responsible adults cannot see it, and are not reminded about it.
When a teen becomes an adult, their private items become fully private and their responsible adults stop being reminded of their events.

What a teen sees when they tick Private on a shopping item.

Giving a child their own login

Admins only

On the Family tab, find the child and tap Give a login.
Enter the email address the child will sign in with.
Tick I confirm that the child is 13 or over and you are their parent or legal guardian, or have their permission, then tap Send invite.
They open the link in the email, sign in or create their login, and tap Join. They keep everything already tagged to them, and their name and colour stay the same.

Give a login opens on the child's own row and says what the teen can and cannot do.

The page the teen lands on from the email.

Once signed in with the invited email, the teen taps Join. The privacy note is repeated here.

A teen's own Family tab: the members and their own colour, with no admin controls.

The invite lasts 7 days, and is listed under your pending invites where you can resend or revoke it. A login can belong to one family at a time, so an email that is already in another family cannot be linked.

Making a teen an adult

Admins only

When a teen is ready, tap Make adult on their row and confirm. There is no birthday stored and nothing changes on its own, so it is always your decision.

Their private items become fully private and their responsible adults stop being reminded of their events.
They can be chosen as someone's responsible adult, and you can make them an admin.
You cannot turn an adult back into a teen.

The confirmation, which spells out what changes.

Teens are labelled on the Members list, with Make adult beside them.

Choosing which adults are responsible for each child or teen.