Parents 🧸: The Family Role Login

When adding contacts to your child’s profile, you can choose what type of login they should have. Famly offers two main options: Parent and Family. The role you choose determines what the contact can access in the app.

The Family role is designed for grandparents or other relatives who should be able to follow updates, but do not need access to your child’s full profile. Contacts with the Family role can:

Contacts with the Family role cannot:

If you assign the Family role to grandparents or other relatives, it’s a good idea to let them know that their login will not include full access to the child’s profile.

Contacts with the Family role will only see Newsfeed posts shared after the date they were invited to Famly.

This means their Newsfeed may look empty at first, but it will fill up over time as new posts are shared.

Many settings share photos as part of observations. If a photo is included in an observation, it will only appear for contacts with the Parent role. Family role contacts cannot see observations or any photos attached to them, which may explain why some posts are missing from their Newsfeed.

If you want grandparents or other family members to have full access to your child’s profile, you can assign them a Parent role instead. Contacts with the Parent role can access everything you can as a parent, including:

You can still clearly define their relationship to your child, even if they are given the Parent role. There is no limit to how many Parent roles a child can have.

If your setting allows parents to edit roles, you can update a contact’s access.

To change a Family role to a Parent role:

Once updated, the contact will have full parent-level access to your child’s profile.