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The family display: your family calendar on the kitchen tablet

The family display puts your family calendar on a tablet in the kitchen, the hallway or by the front door. It shows today, tomorrow and the day after, open tasks and the shopping list, plus the weather once your place is entered, and the children tick off their own tasks there. Nobody signs in on the tablet: you pair it once with your phone using a QR code.

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How to set up the family display

  1. Open the address on the tablet

    In the tablet’s browser, open the address shown in the settings under “Family displays”. The tablet then shows a QR code, with the same code in letters underneath.

  2. Pair it with your phone

    Scan the QR code with the phone you are signed in on and tap “Pair”. Without a camera, choose “Enter the code from the tablet” in the settings. A code is valid for ten minutes, and only someone who manages the family can pair a display.

  3. Done, with no account on the tablet

    Shortly afterwards the tablet shows your calendar. It gets its own access that opens only the display; an account signed in on the tablet is signed out there.

  4. Choose a name, the view, the night view and the rest

    In the settings you give the display a name, such as “Kitchen”, choose its “View”, “Today and two days” or “Seven days”, and set the “Night view” and “Rest when untouched” if you like. It then shows only a dimmed clock on black, moving a little every minute: during the night view, and with the rest once nobody has touched it for 5 to 60 minutes.

What the display shows

At the top are your family’s name, the date and the time in large figures, then the names of all family members in their colours. Below come three day cards for today, tomorrow and the day after: events with their times, tasks that are due, birthdays, public and school holidays, and events from subscribed calendars. If the display is wide enough, an iPad in landscape for example, they sit side by side.

Next to them is the list of open tasks: anything without a date, anything overdue and whatever falls due in the next 13 days. The shopping list below is there to read; it gets ticked off on a phone while shopping.

If the AI had to interpret the day or time of an event from an email, the display shows a question mark after it until someone checks the detail in the calendar. The display doesn’t show descriptions, emails or settings, because visitors walk past it too.

With your place entered, today’s card shows the weather in large type, for example “morning 6° · up to 14°”, with tips on what to wear such as “Warm jacket and a hat” below; tomorrow shows the symbol with the morning and high temperatures, the day after the symbol and the high. The display shows neither pictures of clothes nor the name of your town. If the forecast hasn’t been updated for twelve hours, it leaves the weather out, even without a connection.

Seven days at a glance

Instead of three days, the display can show the seven days from today, not Monday to Sunday: on a Sunday evening the new week is already there. If the display is wide enough, an iPad in landscape for example, the days sit in seven columns side by side, with tasks and the shopping list below; otherwise they run one below the other. Each day shows events, tasks that are due, birthdays and holidays and, with your place entered, the weather as a symbol and the high; the tips on what to wear appear for today.

Each child has their own view, and ticking off takes one tap

In the row of names the children come first. When Ben taps his name, his view opens with “Hello Ben”: what is due for him today and what belongs to nobody, with large tick boxes, and his events are highlighted in the day cards. After 90 seconds without a touch the display goes back to the family view, or Ben taps “Back to the family”.

A tap on the box ticks a task off. Finished tasks stay crossed out for a day, and a second tap reopens them; for a task that takes turns, it is then the next person’s turn. Children need no account of their own.

Family display or “Today” on the tablet?

How it differs from “Today”: for “Today” you are signed in and can add and change events. The family display works without signing in; it is for reading and ticking off.

For the tablet that belongs to everyone, the display is usually the better choice: nobody signs in, no settings can be changed there and the type is large. “Today” is for your own phone or tablet, where you add things.

Which tablet will do

An old tablet from a drawer will usually do. The display runs in the browser and is built for Safari from version 15, so iPads with iPadOS 15 or later, for Chrome, Edge and Firefox from version 90 and for Samsung Internet from version 16.

To keep the screen on, the display keeps it awake wherever the browser allows. Where it doesn’t, the bottom line reads “Keep screen awake: not available”, and you set the auto-lock on the tablet to its longest time. So that nothing burns in, the view shifts by a few pixels every five minutes.

What the family display can’t do

  • You can’t add or edit anything on the display: events, tasks and shopping are edited on a phone or computer. On the display you can only tick tasks off and reopen them.
  • There is no filter by person there, only each child’s view, and the display doesn’t show a month: it shows today and two days or, if you set it, the next seven days.
  • By day, something just added usually appears on the display after a few minutes. In the night view or while resting, it updates at the next tap, otherwise within about an hour.
  • Without a connection it shows the last state with “No connection” and the time of that state, and ticking off is not possible; after seven days without a connection it shows nothing. A display that hasn’t fetched anything for 90 days has to be paired again.
  • It keeps the screen awake only where the browser allows, and it doesn’t set the brightness: that is up to the tablet’s settings (see Help and contact). The black view saves power only on OLED screens.
  • The tablet’s browser has to allow cookies, otherwise the tablet doesn’t stay paired.

Frequently asked questions about the family display

Does the display work on an older iPad?

Usually, as long as its browser isn’t too old: on an iPad it needs Safari 15 or later, on Android tablets Chrome 90 or a similarly recent browser. The easiest way to find out: open the display’s address on the tablet and see whether the pairing code appears.

Do I have to be signed in on the tablet?

No. When you pair it, the tablet gets its own access that opens only the display. Your account and your password stay on your phone.

How often does the display update?

By day, something new usually appears after a few minutes, otherwise within about an hour or at the next tap. At the bottom it shows when it last updated, next to “Update now”.

Can the children break anything on the display?

Hardly. Nobody can change events, the shopping list, the family or the settings there; only tasks can be ticked off. A tick by mistake is undone with a second tap.

Should I open “Today” on the tablet or the display?

For a tablet that belongs to everyone, the display: no sign-in, large type and a view for each child. “Today” is for your own device, where you are signed in and add events.

Does the display cost anything?

Family displays are free, up to ten per family. You don’t need a new device: a tablet you already have with an up-to-date browser is enough.

Can the display show the whole week?

Yes, if you set it: in the settings under “Family displays”, someone who manages the family chooses the view “Seven days” for the display. It then shows the seven days from today, not Monday to Sunday. The display doesn’t show a month.

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Last updated: October 2026