Circle Plus and Circle Parental Controls App User guide

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User guide

Circle Plus and Circle Parental Controls App: A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Your Family's Online Experience

With Circle Plus and the Circle Parental Controls App, you have a powerful tool to shape your family's digital world. Set content filters, impose time limits, and create a healthier balance between online and offline activities. Keep track of your family's online whereabouts with the location feature, and foster responsible usage with the rewards system.

Circle Plus and Circle Parental Controls App: A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Your Family's Online Experience

With Circle Plus and the Circle Parental Controls App, you have a powerful tool to shape your family's digital world. Set content filters, impose time limits, and create a healthier balance between online and offline activities. Keep track of your family's online whereabouts with the location feature, and foster responsible usage with the rewards system.

Thanks for joining the Circle community.
We're here to help families like yours nd balance in today’s digital
world. This guide has been designed to guide you along the way
in using Circle to manage content and time spent online.
If you run into questions or issues, don't hesitate to reach out.
We're here to help!
— The Circle team
support.meetcircle.com
help@meetcircle.com
Meet Circle®
Circle Home Plus
& Circle Parental
Controls App
User Guide
Circle® User Guide 2
Thanks for joining the Circle community.
We're here to help families like yours nd balance in today’s digital
world. This guide has been designed to guide you along the way
in using Circle to manage content and time spent online.
If you run into questions or issues, don't hesitate to reach out.
We're here to help!
— The Circle team
support.meetcircle.com
help@meetcircle.com
Meet Circle®
Table of
contents
Circle® User Guide 3
0
02
03
04
Getting familiar with Circle 4
Getting started 6
Using the Circle Parental
Controls App 7
The Home Screen
Proles
Devices
Dashboard
Features 10
05 Circle Home Plus device 17
Wi-Fi devices & Circle Home Plus
Troubleshooting
Filter
Time Limits
Bedtime
Focus Time
Pause
Location
History
Usage
Rewards
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Getting
familiar
with Circle
0
Circle® User Guide 4
Provide extra online time for your family
Keep track of your family and their mobile devices.
See where your family’s mobile devices are at a
point in time with the tap of a button. Kids get
notied when you request their location.
Detailed breakdown of every site visited by a
prole across all devices
Compare online time for each prole across
all devices
Popular Apps & Websites
A popular online service made up of sites and apps
Site
An individual source of online content
Category
Collection of sites/platforms sharing a common
purpose
Pause the Internet® with the push of a button
Unpause
Resuming Internet access after being paused
Pause the Internet®4
Location4
Rewards4
Usage4
History4
Feature Description
Bedtime4
Limit daily online time for platforms, categories,
and total online time across all devices
Preset time oline for the important moments like
homework or dinner with the family
Ability to match each family member’s age and
interests with age-appropriate online content
Manage
Based on a set of pre-determined rules, network
trac is controlled
Unmanage
Online content can be freely accessed, and it won’t
contribute to daily Time Limits or appear in Usage
& History
Allowed
Content is tracked and managed by Circle
Not Allowed
Content from this source is blocked by Circle
Filter4
Time Limits4
Focus Time4
Feature Description
Schedule overnight oline time for each family
member to make late-night scrolling a thing of
the past
Circle® User Guide 5
Circle settings are shared across all devices
assigned to a family member prole
Proles
Wi-Fi, ethernet, or cellular data source used
to access the Internet
Network
Term Description
Any Internet-connected equipment (smartphone,
tablet, laptop, gaming console, etc.); plus smart
home appliances (“IoT” devices): smart TVs, Wi-Fi
speakers, and thermostats
Kid device
Any Internet-connected device that you manage
with the Circle App, not just your kids' devices
Unassigned device
Devices not assigned to a prole are automatically
unmanaged by Circle
Device
Device that distributes Internet to multiple
devices, usually over Wi-Fi
Router
Getting
started
02
Circle® User Guide 6
Install the Circle Parental Controls App
Apple iOS 2 or newer
Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) or newer
To nd the app, search Circle Parental Controls
in the App Store (iOS) or Google Play (Android)
Follow the in-app instructions to continue
1, Create your Circle Account
2. Set up the App
3. Set up Circle Home Plus
The Circle App
Using the
Circle App
03
Circle® User Guide 7
Device List
Family
Prole
The Home Screen
Navigation
The Home Screen lets you see the family
member Proles you have set up, the
Devices that have been added to Circle,
and provides a Menu with more options
for your Circle account.
Home Menu
Menu
The Menu provides quick access to
additional account Settings for your Circle
login and hardware, access to Legal and
Help resources, and the opportunity to
tell your friends and family about Circle
through our Refer a Friend program.
Circle® User Guide 8
Proles
Create proles for every family member, so their Circle settings are
shared across all devices.
To view a prole
Tap on a prole from the home screen.
From here you can see their name,
photo, and a summary of their Circle
settings.
Tap edit in the top right corner of the
screen to change the name or picture.
You can also delete the prole
from here.
Tap done to save changes or
cancel to go back without saving
your changes.
Prole features
To view or makes changes to the
prole settings, tap any of the features
displayed in the prole.
To learn about the features listed
on the prole screen, continue to
the next section.
To add a mobile device to the prole,
tap on Devices and then add a mobile
device.
Devices
Tap on any device from the
device list to see the device
settings, where you’ll nd:
The assigned prole (edit by tapping
the text)
The device name (edit by tapping the
text)
The manufacturer and device ID — which
can help you identify the device if you
can’t gure out which is which
If it’s a kid device (with the Circle App
installed and congured), you’ll see the
VPN status.
The option to remove device, which
deletes this device from Circle
If you don’t want to manage this device
with Circle, set it to unmanaged.
A pause button, just for this single device
From the home screen, you can nd a list of all Circle devices by
tapping the devices icon in the top right portion of the screen.
From the prole screen, you can nd a list of all assigned devices
by selecting devices.
Circle® User Guide 9
Dashboard
Finding the dashboard
If you’ve assigned a family member’s
device to a prole, they can use the
dashboard from the Circle App or a
web browser by visiting
dashboard.meetcircle.com.
What’s on the dashboard
On the dashboard, you’ll see
information for the various Circle
features you’ve enabled for that family
member. Theres also a general prole
card, where you can see the device
name associated with Circle. Finding
the device name can be helpful for
identifying devices if you’re not sure
which is which.
Dashboard push
notications
Push notications let your family
members know about changes to their
Internet access throughout the day
from Circle. They’ll be notied about
Circle features like Pause, Time Limits,
Focus Times, Bedtimes, and more.
The dashboard is where your family can check their online time for
the day, and nd other helpful information.
Features
04
Circle® User Guide 10
Parental controls,
right at your ngertips
Simplify how you manage your family's online screen
time. Circle's features let you set limits, lter content,
and keep tabs on every connected device.
Filter
Set online content lters that match each family member’s age and
interests. When setting a lter, you rst must select a lter level as
a starting place, which you can always customize to be the right t
for each family member.
To edit a family member’s lter, tap on
their prole, then select lter.
Filter levels
Kid
Grants access to kid-safe experiences,
like the education category, but lters
out content not appropriate for children
(most restrictive level)
Teen
Grants access to most general-use
platforms and categories, without
mature or adult-oriented content
Adult
Grants access to nearly all platforms,
categories, and apps, though explicit
content is ltered out by default
None
Means that Circle won’t lter content,
track usage or history, or limit time online
for any assigned devices
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Circle Plus and Circle Parental Controls App User guide

Type
User guide

Circle Plus and Circle Parental Controls App: A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Your Family's Online Experience

With Circle Plus and the Circle Parental Controls App, you have a powerful tool to shape your family's digital world. Set content filters, impose time limits, and create a healthier balance between online and offline activities. Keep track of your family's online whereabouts with the location feature, and foster responsible usage with the rewards system.

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