Onboarding: setting up your first child profile
Last updated: 26 August 2026
After you sign up, Paxio walks you through a short guided setup before you reach your dashboard: a parent PIN and device role, your first child's profile with suggested settings, and a one-time look at Pro.
Create your PIN & choose whose phone this is
Create your parent PIN:
- Enter a 4-digit PIN. This keeps your parental controls private from your child.
- Enter it again to confirm — you'll see "Confirm your PIN" on the same screen.
Choose whose phone this is:
- "This is my phone" — manage your kids' devices remotely from here. Most parents start with this.
- "This is my child's phone" — monitoring runs on this device, managed remotely from your own phone.
- "We share this phone" — one device for both of you; switch between parent and child view with your PIN.
Create a parent PIN.
Whose phone is this?
Add your child's profile & review suggested settings
Add your child's profile:
- Pick an avatar from the grid.
- Enter your child's name and set their age with the slider.
- Tap "See suggested settings."
Review suggested settings:
- Paxio proposes settings for your child's age — a screen timer, sleep timer, content-filter band, and app blocker starting point.
- Tap "Use these settings" to accept them and continue.
- Nothing here is final — every one of these can be changed anytime after onboarding from the Control tab.
Who are we setting up?
Suggested settings.
Try Paxio Pro
- Shown once, right after your first child's settings are set.
- Compare Free and Pro — more child profiles, unlimited app blocking, full content filtering, bedtime locks, internet control, and deeper reports.
- Tap "Continue to Paxio Pro" to upgrade, or "Skip for now" — you can upgrade later from Settings.
The Pro upgrade screen.
Your dashboard
- Setup is done. You land on the Overview tab — your dashboard for that child's screen time, quick controls, and reports.
- Add more children, or change any of the above later, from Settings.
The Overview dashboard.