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Garmin Jr. Family

Your Garmin Jr.™ family is made up of members who you can designate as guardians or caregivers. Family members are automatically added as Garmin Jr. contacts.

You can also add connections from your Garmin Connect™ account to include on your family's steps leaderboards and add their Garmin® device as a contact.

NOTE: Family members can belong to only one Garmin Jr. family.

Adding Members to a Garmin Jr. Family

Before you can add members to a Garmin Jr. family, each user must have or create a Garmin Connect account.

  1. From the Garmin Jr. app, select Menu symbol > Family > Invite member.
  2. Enter the email address that is associated with the user's Garmin Connect account.
  3. Select an option:

    • Select Guardian to allow the user to view and interact with the family and modify kid settings.

    • Select Caregiver to allow the user to view and interact with the family.

  4. Select Continue > Send invitation.

    The user receives an email invitation to join your Garmin Jr. family.

    NOTE: The user's email address appears on the Pending Invitations list until the invitation is accepted. You can resend or cancel the invitation before it is accepted.

Inviting Connections with the Garmin Jr. App

Before you can invite a person as a connection, each person must have or create a Garmin Connect account.

  1. From the Garmin Jr. app, select Menu symbol > Family > Connections.
  2. Select Find People or Add symbol.
  3. Select an option:

    • Enter a name or email to search for a person.

    • Select Your Contacts to choose a person from your contacts.

  4. Select the person, and select Connect > OK.

    The person receives an email invitation to connect with your family.

Adding Messaging Contacts

Before you can add messaging contacts, you must connect to people who have messaging-capable Garmin devices in the Garmin Jr. app (Inviting People with the Garmin Jr. App).
NOTE: Members of your Garmin Jr. family are automatically included in the list of messaging contacts (Setting Up a Garmin Jr. Family).
  1. From the Garmin Jr. app, select Home.
  2. Select your child, and select Settings > Contacts.
  3. Select Add symbol next to an available contact.
  4. Select Check mark symbol.
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