Hatch Rest and Rest+ 2nd gen: the owner invites

Hatch’s help article covers both second-generation models. The person who set the clock up can invite up to four more people, using the email address of each person’s own Hatch Sleep account. Someone who was invited cannot invite others; only the owner can.

Invitations and removals are in the Access area of the clock’s settings in the app. The article explains how to remove someone by email, but does not say whether only the owner can do it, how many people can change the clock at once, or how to pass the clock to a new owner. The one-connection limit of the older Rest does not apply to these models.

Use your own accounts and Hatch’s invitation steps. The Rest 2nd gen and Rest+ 2nd gen pages show their different power and schedule features.

Nanit: the camera app gives fewer controls

To use the Sound + Light controls inside the Nanit camera app, another grown-up has to be added to the parenting team of both the camera and the Sound + Light; joining the camera’s team alone is not enough. The Sound + Light is still set up in its own app; the camera app does not replace it.

In the camera app, Nanit lists on and off, brightness, volume and status, but not changing routines. Nanit does not say what another person can do in the Sound + Light app itself, so Nanit Sound + Light does not count as shareable when you filter for that.

Nanit’s limit of two connections is for listening on the audio monitor, not for how many people can change the light. A reset wipes the saved Wi-Fi, favorites and routines; that is not the same as removing a person, and Nanit does not say how to pass the machine to a new owner.

Tommee Tippee Connected and Smart Snail need different checks

Tommee Tippee’s US support page for the Connected clock says you add other people as members of your home in the app’s Home Management settings, and that the home’s owner or an administrator can remove them. It does not say how many people you can add or what each of them can change.

The Smart Snail is linked to an account, not to a phone: Skip Hop says another grown-up signs in with your login in the Skip Hop app on their own iPhone or iPad; the app is made for iPhone and iPad only, so a grandparent with an Android phone cannot change the Snail. Only one phone can control it at a time, and that phone has to be within Bluetooth range, about 30 feet. Your login gives them everything you have in the app, including Delete device in its settings, which frees the Snail for another account but makes it forget every routine; holding its Standby button for 5 seconds does the same. Either is also how you pass the Snail on.

For a clock with buttons, hand over the button steps

With a clock you set on its buttons, such as MELLA or ZAZU Sam, another grown-up uses the buttons instead of joining an app. Write down how to switch the light on and whether the lock is on. A lock does not guarantee that a child cannot change the clock.

Check the difference between app setup and everyday controls: some app clocks have a few buttons that work without a phone, but not every schedule can be changed on them.

Make a handover anyone can follow

Write down whose account the clock is on, where it is changed (buttons or app), and whether the other grown-up has accepted the invitation. Let them try their own access before they need it. Keep the maker’s instructions with the plan; do not reset the clock or remove an account to pass it on.

Agree on what to do if the power, the internet or the app goes down. A battery that keeps the light on and one that only keeps the settings are different protections. Agree on what the light means, then use the schedule planner to keep the times and a short note in one printable plan.

Make a plan to share →

Sources

Details can differ between versions and countries. Dates show when we last checked something that changes, like stock or a recall. Every source we use