Guide for testers

Thank you for testing Determined. This takes about 15 minutes to set up.

Determined is now in the App Store and Google Play, for families enrolled in the Determined research study at the University of Rochester. This guide is for testers who started before that.

Moving to the store apps

• Switching from TestFlight to the App Store build keeps your data. Your household, teens and routines stay as they are.
• Internal testers get the store build as an update, in TestFlight or Play. You don't need to reinstall.
• If you installed an Android APK by hand, uninstall it and pair the phone again from Determined+. An APK can't be updated from Google Play.

1. Get the apps

1. Install TestFlight from the App Store.
2. Open the invitation email and accept it.
3. Install both apps: Determined+ on the caregiver's iPhone and Determined on the teen's iPhone. For a quick try, one iPhone can run both.

TestFlight builds expire after 90 days. A new one will be offered before then.

The teen app on Android

Determined (the teen app) also runs on Android, through Google Play's internal testing. Determined+ stays on the iPhone.

1. Email us the Google account the teen uses on the phone. We add it to the testers list. If the account is managed with Family Link, a parent may need to approve.
2. On the teen's phone, open the link we send and accept the invitation. Play calls this "internal testing" and may mark the app "Unreviewed": that's expected.
3. Install Determined from the Play Store link on that page, then connect it as in step 3.

2. Set up

1. Sign up in Determined+. A code arrives by email to confirm the address.
2. Create your household, add a teen, and build a routine or two with a few steps.

3. Connect the teen's phone

1. In Determined+, open the teen and tap Connect a device. A QR code and an 8-character code appear; the code lasts 10 minutes.
2. On the teen's phone, open Determined and tap Scan to connect, or Type the code instead.

If Determined isn't on the teen's phone yet, scan the QR code with the phone's camera. It opens a page with the App Store or Google Play link. Install Determined, open it, then scan the code again. Codes expire after 10 minutes. If it has expired, tap Get a new code in Determined+.

A phone still on an older build (before 1.0.0) can't read the new QR code with Determined's scanner. Update Determined first, or type the short code.

If the teen's phone uses Bark

Bark can block the pages the apps need. In Bark, allow www.determinedteens.com, the App Store, Google Play and *.amazonaws.com.

4. What to try

• Tick steps on the teen's phone, with and without signal (try airplane mode).
• Watch the caregiver's Today tab and the line under the teen on the home screen.
• Edit a routine and see the change reach the teen's phone.
• In Determined+, start a routine from an example: tap Start from an example, or Browse examples under Add a routine.
• Meet the buddy: in Determined, tap Pick your buddy next to the greeting. Each step done earns coins, and finished routines help the buddy grow. Tap the buddy to open its page and shop. You can pick a different buddy until it first grows or you buy something.
• Manage the teen's phones: in Determined+, tap the phone icon on the teen's page to see each phone, or to Remove or Replace one.
• Try a color theme: Settings → Appearance in Determined+, and Settings → Your colors in Determined.

5. Known limitations

• One caregiver per household.
• Determined+ is iPhone only. The teen app runs on iPhone and on Android.
• A new or reset phone connects as a new device. Check-offs it hadn't sent yet, and its color choice, stay on the old phone.
• The teen app can't disconnect itself. To start over, delete the teen's profile in Determined+.
• Determined+ shows the teen's phone by platform and connection date (for example "iPhone · connected Oct 6"), not by a name.
• The first sync after connecting a phone can take up to a minute.
• Coin amounts, prices and buddy rewards are placeholders and may change.
• After the teen app has been in the background for a long time, check-offs may wait until it is opened again.

6. Your data

Please use nicknames and don't enter health details: see the privacy policy.

• To erase a teen: open the teen, then Teen settings → Delete [name]'s profile. The teen's phone then shows "Ask your caregiver to reconnect this phone."
• To erase everything: Settings → Delete my account.

Erasing removes the records from the service at once. The teen's phone keeps only check-offs it hadn't sent yet, until it is connected again or the app is deleted.

7. Feedback

Take a screenshot in either app and use TestFlight's Send Beta Feedback (on Android, attach it to an email), or email support@determinedteens.com.