Your child's day and photos
The activity feed, earlier days, saving photos, and who else can see them.
Where to find it
Open the My Child tab and tap Today's Activity Feed on your child's card. It's your child's day in one list, newest first. If you have more than one child at the center, each has their own card and their own feed.
The Today tab has the short version: check-in and check-out, the day so far, and new messages.
What's in it
Through the day teachers log what happened — meals and bottles and how much went down, naps and how long, diaper changes, activities, mood, notes worth passing on, and photos.
What appears depends on your child's age group and what your center chooses to record. An infant room usually logs a great deal; a pre-K room may log activities and little else, because there's less to track and more to describe.
If a teacher happens to record the same nap in two places, you'll see it once.
When each part appears
The day arrives in two halves, and they don't arrive at the same time.
Meals and bottles, naps, diapers, bathroom trips, temperatures, mood, and a request to bring something in appear as they're logged. If your child had a bottle at ten past ten, it's in your feed shortly after ten past ten — you don't have to wait for the end of the day to know whether they slept.
The written part — the day's highlights, who your child played with, outdoor time, what's planned for tomorrow, the teacher's own notes, and the photos — appears once the room has finished the day and a director has approved it. That's usually late afternoon or early evening, and it's deliberate: someone reads it before you do.
So an afternoon with feeds and naps but no story yet is a day in progress, not a gap.
Earlier days
Use the arrows either side of the date to step back a day at a time, and forward again as far as today. Pull down to refresh.
A day with nothing on it says No activity yet, with Nothing was recorded on this day underneath for a day that's already over.
The play button at the top turns the day you're looking at into a short recap you can watch and save — see Daily recaps and Wrapped.
When each part appears
The day arrives in two halves, and they don't arrive at the same time.
Meals, naps, nappies, bathroom trips, temperatures and a request to bring something in appear as they're logged. If your child had a bottle at ten past ten, that's in your app shortly after ten past ten. You don't have to wait for the end of the day to know whether they slept.
The written part — the day's highlights, who your child played with, outdoor time, what's planned for tomorrow, and the photos — appears once the room has finished the day and a director has approved it. That's usually late afternoon or early evening, and it's deliberate: someone reads it before you do.
So an afternoon with feeds and naps but no story yet is the normal state of a day in progress, not a gap.
Photos
Photos sit in the feed beside the moment they belong to. Tap one to see it full size; when a teacher shared several together, swipe between them. Save puts a copy in your phone's photo library and Share sends it on.
If your center has turned off downloads for your child, those buttons tell you Downloads disabled for this child, and the photo stays in the app. The same applies to the daily recap and a year in review: the save option isn't offered there either. You can still watch and read everything; it just doesn't leave the app.
For all your child's photos in one place, tap Photos on your child's card — they're kept in an album under your child's name.
Photos from the daily report come with the written part of the day, once it's approved — so the morning's pictures usually arrive together in the evening rather than one at a time. Some centers also hold new photos back for a short while, so a room can remove a shot that caught the wrong child.
Please think about the other families before sharing a photo that has other people's children in it — a nursery photo on a public account is the kind of thing centers get complaints about, and it's usually nobody's intention.
Reacting
Entries from the daily report have a React: row of emoji underneath. Tap one to react to that day's report, and tap it again to take it back. Your child's teachers can see it — a small way of saying you've read it.
Who can see them
Reports and photos for your child go to your family — the guardians linked to that child at the center. They aren't public, they aren't posted anywhere, and other families don't see your child's feed.
Where a photo includes more than one child, your center decides how it's shared, following its own photo policy and whatever you agreed at enrollment.
The enrollment form has a separate tick for sharing photos with other families in the classroom. Turning that off keeps your child out of what other families are shown — it does not hide your child's photos from you. Photos of your child are always yours to see.
Go to More and tap Media consent to see your child's current photo and video settings. To change them, send a request from My child's data — see Photo and video permissions. It's a normal request, and you don't have to justify it.
If a day looks empty
Reports are written by teachers between everything else, so a quiet day is more often a busy classroom than a missing record. If a whole week looks empty and it usually doesn't, message your child's room — something may have changed about how that room records the day.
If the meals and naps are there but the written part never arrives, that's different: the room's day hasn't been approved yet. Look again in the evening; if it's still missing the next day, mention it to your center — it's theirs to release, not something you can prompt from the app.
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