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Setting up KAI Mini: what the device will ask

For parents and children
iPhone and iPad

The short version

KAI Mini guides your child through a few taps in Settings. Along the way the device shows Apple’s own prompts: one to download a profile, one to install it, a “Remote Management” alert, one to let KAI manage the app, and the usual permission requests. This page shows each prompt, says what it means in plain words, and explains how to undo all of it. Nothing about the profile is hidden; it sits in Settings for anyone to see.

Before you start

  • The KAI app on your own phone, open at the code it shows for your child.
  • Your child’s iPhone or iPad, unlocked, with its passcode known to you. iOS asks for it during the install.
  • About five minutes. KAI Mini says what comes next before each step.

Why KAI installs a profile

Apple lets a parent-controls app change a child’s device settings only through a management profile, which Apple calls MDM. KAI’s profile does four things, all of them listed on the profile page in Settings:

  • Blocks the apps you choose, through the App Store age rating, with the exemptions you pick.
  • Turns on Apple’s built-in web content filter.
  • Installs KAI Mini as a managed app, so it cannot be deleted while the profile is on.
  • Reports which apps are installed, so you can pick which ones count toward the limit.

It cannot read messages, see photos, turn on the camera or microphone, or read what is typed. Location is a separate permission your child grants to KAI Mini, or does not. The full list of what the profile can and cannot do is in the Privacy Policy.

Step 1 — Download the profile

In KAI Mini, after your child reads what the profile does and taps Continue, the app opens a download. Safari asks:

  • “This website is trying to download a configuration profile. Do you want to allow this?” Tap Allow. This saves the profile; it does not install anything yet.

A downloaded profile waits in Settings for only a few minutes. If it is gone, go back to KAI Mini and tap Download again.

Step 2 — Install it in Settings

KAI Mini offers an Open Settings button. In Settings, tap Profile Downloaded near the top. On some iPadOS versions it sits under General › VPN & Device Management › Downloaded Profile. Then:

  1. The Install Profile page shows “KAI Mini protection”, signed by Break Global Inc., and a description of what it does. Tap Install.
  2. Enter the device passcode. iOS may ask for it more than once.
  3. A Warning page lists a root certificate named “KAI MDM CA” and Mobile Device Management. The certificate is how the device checks that every setting really comes from KAI’s server and from no one else. Tap Install.
  4. An alert titled Remote Management asks whether to trust this profile. This is Apple’s standard wording for any management profile. It means Break Global Inc. can apply the four settings above to this device. Tap Trust, then Done.

Back in KAI Mini, the app notices the install within a few seconds and moves on by itself.

Step 3 — Tap Manage

Once the profile is on, iOS asks whether KAI may take management of the KAI Mini app. The prompt reads:

  • “Would you like to let KAI take management of the app ‘KAI Mini’? Your app data will become managed.” Tap Manage.

This is what keeps KAI Mini on the device: a managed app has no Remove App option while the profile is installed. KAI Mini may close and reopen while iOS makes the change; it picks up where it left off. If the prompt never appears, the app shows a Send again button.

Step 4 — The permission prompts

These are the same prompts any app shows. Each one is optional except where noted, and each can be changed later in Settings › KAI Mini.

  • Notifications. Tap Allow. This is how KAI Mini tells your child that a break has started, a task was approved, or time was added.
  • Location. Tap Allow While Using, then Always when asked, if you want the family map and place alerts. Skip it if you do not.
  • Motion. Optional. Lets KAI Mini notice when your child starts or stops moving, which uses less battery than GPS alone.
  • Live Activities. Two prompts: “Allow Live Activities from KAI Mini?” then a second one; choose Always Allow. This puts the break card on the Lock Screen and lets KAI’s server keep it up to date with the app closed. KAI Mini sends a sample card during setup so the prompts appear right away.
  • Screen Time access. Optional. Lets KAI Mini check the day’s screen time the way Apple counts it. KAI only ever gets the day’s total, never which apps.

What it looks like afterwards

  • Settings › General › VPN & Device Management lists KAI Mini protection. Its page shows Mobile Device Management, Managed App, Restrictions, VPN Settings and a device identity certificate, with a red Remove Management button at the bottom.
  • A blocked app stays on the Home Screen, greyed out with a small ⊘ badge, and does not open. It comes back the moment the block ends.
  • A blocked website shows Apple’s “Website Not Allowed” page.
  • VPN shows as connected while KAI Mini counts screen time. The connection stays on the device; it is how the app measures minutes per app and switches the internet off for blocked apps.
  • If the device is locked when you change a rule, the change applies the next time your child unlocks it.

How to remove KAI

Anyone with the device passcode can remove the profile at any time:

  1. Open Settings › General › VPN & Device Management.
  2. Tap KAI Mini protection.
  3. Tap Remove Management, enter the passcode, then tap Remove.

Every restriction ends at once. iOS deletes the KAI Mini app, because it was a managed app. The parent is notified in the KAI app that protection was removed. To reconnect, reinstall KAI Mini from the App Store and tap Reinstall on the red card it shows; while the child is still in your KAI app, no new code is needed. To delete the information KAI holds, remove the child in the KAI app or use the deletion page.

If something does not work

  • “Profile Downloaded” is not in Settings. The download expired. Tap Download again in KAI Mini, then Allow in Safari, and open Settings straight away.
  • The Manage prompt never showed. Tap Send again in KAI Mini. Keep the device unlocked for a few seconds.
  • A rule did not reach the device. Unlock the device and keep it awake for a moment; settings are delivered when it is unlocked.
  • The break card is not on the Lock Screen. Open Notification Center (swipe down from the top) and answer the Live Activities prompts with Allow, then Always Allow. Settings › KAI Mini › Live Activities must also be on.

Contact us

Stuck on a step, or saw a prompt this page does not describe? Write to team@breakglobalinc.com with the device model and iOS version, and we will walk you through it.