Get a good microSD card with decent write speeds so there’s no delay in writing and reading to the card. It’s not enough if you want to have any videos at all. It comes with 32 GB internal storage of which a large portion is taken already for the operating system itself.

You need to change your profile and insert a pin if you want to go back to the normal Amazon screen. Everything is free, and there’s no store or settings for kids to mess around with. Outside of the error message and terrible UI, the FreeTime app is locked down. This results in a ton of error messages that my daughter doesn’t understanding related to geographic limitations. We have a hard time finding new content and since we’re not in the US, it’s displaying a bunch of content that we can’t play. This results in extremely slow responsiveness to touch which is super frustrating for my daughter to use. To be clear, the tablet is only used for FreeTime and yet it’s already slowing down. The update occurred while I was reading to her too.

You can do most of this on Amazon Parent Dashboard though the site is simple and lacks features.Ī recent update to FreeTime has slowed down the tablet a lot. The only way to do that is to completely take the tablet offline so the store becomes unavailable. I’d prefer to limit the options available and choose which ones to add rather than which ones to remove. You can delete an app from the device but it will still show up as an app that can be played. Most are educational but I wish there was an easy way to completely delete and hide content. We have a hard time finding affordable English language books in Italy so this fills that void nicely. I’m confused and not sure what the point of the pop-up is then. As long as you continue to press okay, you can still watch the video. I’ve hit this box for various videos and not a single one has deleted itself. Kids don’t need to understand they have 48-hours with that video anyway. This UX box is annoying for kids, especially for those that can’t read. While you’re offline an annoying pop-up appears that you have 48-hours before the video becomes unavailable. While we were in the US we downloaded a bunch of videos for offline use.

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