Get FlashDroid on both phones
FlashDroid is two apps: one on your phone, one on your child’s. Start with whichever phone is in your hand.
AndroidFlashDroid Kid setup
The download is not ready yet — we are still finishing the setup app for the child’s phone. The steps below are what you will do when it is.
Open this on their phoneflashdroid.app/download
The file has to land on your child’s phone, so it is easiest to start there. Send yourself the link if you are reading this on a laptop.
The download is not ready yet.
On their phone
Setting up your child’s phone
About five minutes, on their phone rather than yours. FlashDroid Kid stays visible on their home screen under its own name — there is nothing secret about it, and that is deliberate.
- Tap download, and allow the install. Android asks whether to allow installs from your browser, because the file did not come from the Play Store. You can switch that permission back off afterwards.
- Open the file and tap Install. The small app you just installed is called FlashDroid Kids Wizard. It downloads FlashDroid Kid, installs it, and then you can remove the wizard — two names, one setup.
- Open FlashDroid Kid and pair the phones. Your own FlashDroid app shows a pairing code — scan it here, and that is what links the two phones to your family.
- On Android 13 and newer, unlock the restricted settings. Android locks a couple of permissions for apps installed this way. Open Settings → Apps → FlashDroid Kid → ⋮ → Allow restricted settings, then grant what the app asks for. FlashDroid Kid explains each one as it goes.