Apple Watch For Your Kids

Apple Watch For Your Kids is a software feature that lets you use your iPhone to set up an Apple Watch (GPS + Cellular) for a child or family member. That means kids who don’t have their own iPhone can easily stay in touch using Apple Watch (when they’re in an area with mobile coverage). Using the Watch and Settings apps on your iPhone, you can manage settings for their Apple Watch, set approved contacts and see their location using the Find My app.

To get started with Apple Watch For Your Kids, you’ll need an Apple Watch with GPS + Cellular. An Apple Account will be used to set up your child or family member’s Apple Watch, which they can create during the setup process. An iPhone is also needed for the initial watch setup and to manage settings on their Apple Watch. Your child does not need their own iPhone — that’s the whole point. Only the parent’s iPhone is needed to set up and manage the watch. You’ll also need to have a family sharing group that includes the person who will use the Apple Watch. Check with your carrier regarding adding a carrier plan.

Cellular-enabled Apple Watch models (Series 4 or later) will work. 

Yes. Telstra Watch Plan is required to connect your kid’s Apple Watch to Telstra’s mobile network, so their watch will get its own mobile number with calls, messages and data – while being managed from your iPhone.

You can manage settings on your child or family member’s Apple Watch by using the Watch app and Settings on your iPhone. You can also control who can contact your child — approve specific contacts for calls and messages, and block all others, so your child can only be reached by people you trust. Schedule Schooltime, set approved contacts for calls and texts, set limits on purchases and more. And with the Find My app, you can also view your family member’s location, set Location Notifications or locate a lost device.

Using the Find My app on the parent iPhone, you can set up Location Notifications that alert you when your child arrives at or leaves a specific location (when connected to a mobile network), like school, home, soccer practice or a friend’s house. You can manage these alerts directly from the parent iPhone.

Schooltime is a setting that restricts notifications and disables the use of all apps on your child’s Apple Watch. You can adjust the schedule for Schooltime in the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. When Schooltime is active, the watch face has a yellow circle indicating that access to apps is restricted and Do Not Disturb is turned on. 

Get started with Schooltime on Apple Watch

Apple Watch For Your Kids allows kids to benefit from many communication, safety and wellness features like making calls, sending texts, sharing location, using Emergency SOS, using Siri, tracking Activity Rings and much more. Some features like Apple Pay, Medications, Sleep and ECG require an iPhone and are not available for kids without an iPhone.

Find out availability of features and apps

Learn more about setting up Apple Watch for a family member

Instead of sharing an account with your child, which can give them unwanted access to your personal data, create an Apple Account for them. Then you can easily set age-based parental controls, and they can use Family Sharing, Messages, the App Store and other Apple services.

Find out how to create an Apple Account for your child

Yes. You can set up and manage Apple Watch For Your Kids for multiple children from a single parent iPhone. Each child will have their own Apple Account and their own approved contacts, Schooltime, schedule and settings — all managed separately through the Watch app on your iPhone. Family Sharing supports up to five family members, so you can keep the whole family connected from one place.

Currently, one parent’s iPhone is used as the primary manager of a child’s Apple Watch. However, both parents can view the child’s location through the Find My app if they are both part of the same Family Sharing group. Full management controls are tied to the account that completed the initial setup.

Family Sharing makes it easy for you and up to five other family members to share access to music, apps and other subscription purchases, all without sharing an Apple Account¹Refer to disclaimers.. You can set up an Apple Account for kids, to set permissions remotely with Screen Time, and approve spending and downloads from a parent’s device with Ask to Buy.²Refer to disclaimers.

Find out how to set up Family Sharing

The Sport Band, Sport Loop and Solo Loop are easy to wear and great for kids with wrists of all sizes. The rubber Sport Band comes in a range of sizes with an innovative pin-and-tuck closure. The Sport Loop is soft, breathable and easy to adjust. And the Solo Loop comes in customisable sizes and offers a stretchable design without clasps that is easy to slip on and off.

As long as your child’s Apple Watch has an active carrier plan, it will work with mobile reception — at school, a friend’s house or while travelling domestically. Over Wi‑Fi, the watch can also connect when mobile reception isn’t available.

The Telstra Watch Plan is a dedicated plan for smartwatches. 

It provides a dedicated mobile number for watches so they can make and receive calls and texts without needing to be tethered to a smartphone.

The Telstra Watch Plan includes unlimited standard calls and texts in Australia to standard Australian fixed and mobile numbers, as well as calls to most 11xx, 12xx, 13xx and 18xx numbers. It also includes 2GB of monthly data plus data sharing.

Data sharing creates a pool of monthly data across up to up to 20 eligible Upfront Mobile or Data Plans. You can manage this via My Telstra.