Bring order to chaos

Organise everything from dinners to playdates with FamilyWall

- Carrie Marshall

IT WILL TAKE 20 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN How to use FamilyWall as an organiser

YOU’LL NEED FamilyWall (free, IAPs), more than one iOS/iPadOS device

Genius tip!

If you’re a paid subscriber, you’ll get 25GB of cloud storage that you can use instead of iCloud to store and share family photos.

Organising children is like herding cats, only harder. There are meals to plan, lunches to buy, playdates to attend, kit to wash… the list seems never-ending. Thankfully apps such as FamilyWall can help even the most harassed parent organise everything.

At its heart FamilyWall is a shared calendar system that works across everybody’s iPhones, iPads and iPod touches. You can quickly create events that include some or all of your family and their circle of friends, set reminders and add notes, and if you’ve enabled location services you can also use the app to see the location of your family circle members.

The app also includes built-in Messagesstyle chat, photo, and video sharing, and even the ability to store recipes, plan meals for the whole week and create shopping lists for ingredients as well as for other essentials such as school clothes. As you’ll discover in this tutorial it’s also very easy to use, and more importantly, it’s really fast – because if there’s one thing parents and guardians don’t have, it’s a lot of spare time.

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