What’s new, and what parents ask

No analytics, advertising, crash reporting or push libraries in the app your child uses. That is now checked by the build rather than promised in a policy.

A short note on Sunday evening about what is actually happening in your hive. It stays quiet when nothing needs you, and one click turns it off for good.

The parent side was a web page in an app-shaped wrapper. It has been rebuilt properly, and the difference is mostly in the small things you would only notice if they were wrong.

There is one text field in the whole kid app, it is for a six-digit pairing code, and it throws away anything that is not a digit. That is deliberate, and the reason is moderation.

A parent reported that their two kids seemed to share a PIN. They did not. The app had simply never mentioned that the numbers should be different.

Adding a child to Achievabee is more awkward than it needs to be, on purpose. A tap in the app cannot tell us who is holding the phone.

You can download your household as one file and delete it from inside the app. The interesting part is what stops either of those quietly going out of date.

Turning down a reward used to happen in silence. The button on your child's screen just changed back, with no explanation attached to it.

A chore that was still outstanding could show as done, if your phone was in a different timezone from your household. Here is how that happened and what fixed it.