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Gabb Phone 4 Quick User Guide

Get to know your Gabb Phone 4: insert battery, activate & pair, set parental controls, add apps, enable Safe Zones, set up voicemail.

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Gabb Phone 4 overview 📋

In this guide, you’ll learn how to get started with your Gabb Phone 4 and learn about its features.

Install or replace Gabb Phone 4 battery 🔋

Before activating your Gabb Phone 4, you’ll need to install the battery:

  1. Remove back cover: Hold your Gabb Phone 4 with the screen facing you. There's a small indent on the right side of the phone near the bottom. Put your fingernail in that indentation & pull the cover off.

  2. Insert the battery: Insert the battery, barcode side down, with the gold contacts in the upper-right corner.

Turn on your Gabb Phone 4 ⚡

Press & hold the power button for five seconds to turn on your Gabb Phone 4.

Setting up your Gabb Phone 4: Activating your phone 📲

If you need help with activation, setup, & pairing, find out how in this article or this YouTube video 👇

Set up parental controls ⚙️

Safe Zones 🏠

The Gabb Phone 4 is equipped with real-time GPS location tracking & customizable Safe Zones. A Safe Zone is a pre-defined area that you set up, allowing you to get a notification from the MyGabb app when your child enters or leaves that area.

Safe texting on Gabb Messenger 📨

Gabb Messenger flags or blocks messages that may be harmful to your child. You'll get a notification from the Gabb Messenger for parents app when this happens. You can also add approved contacts for your Gabb phone in the Gabb Messenger for parents app.

Download Gabb Messenger from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

App-to-app Safe Video Calling 🤳

Gabb Messenger allows your child to make app-to-app Safe Video Calls to other Gabb Messenger users. Parents can make video calls to their child using the Gabb Messenger for parents app. Parent-approved friends and relatives can also use the app after your child sends a link to an approved contact.

Gabb App Management 📱

The Gabb Phone 4 offers select, curated apps available for download from Gabb App Management.

Clean music streaming with Gabb Music 🎶

Gabb Music doesn't bleep out lyrics—instead, we use our industry-leading tools and proprietary technology to filter out explicit and suggestive songs.

Gabb Music is included on Standard plans, and Gabb Music+ is included on Advanced Plans, or you can add Gabb Music or Gabb Music+ as a standalone subscription.

Text & call logs 🧾

You can monitor your child's text & call logs from within your Gabb account.

Set up voicemail on your Gabb Phone 4 📞

  1. Access voicemail: Dial *86 from your Gabb Phone 4.

  2. Follow the prompts: Listen to the automated instructions & follow the prompts to set up your voicemail.

You can access your voicemail at any time by dialing *86.

Add contacts to your Gabb Phone 4 👥

Follow these steps to add an approved contact in the Gabb Messenger app:

  1. Log in to Gabb Messenger using the Gabb account login credentials that you use to log in to your Gabb account (not your child’s login).

  2. Enable push notifications so you get notified about flagged & blocked texts.

  3. Build your child’s approved contacts list:

    1. Tap your child’s profile icon 👤, then tap Contacts.

    2. Select Parent-managed from the Contact Management drop down.

    3. Tap the blue plus sign ➕ in the bottom-right corner.

    4. Choose how you want to add the contact:

      1. Create New Contact: Enter contact details manually, then tap Create Contact.

      2. From Child's List: Approve your child's contacts by selecting the contact(s) you want to improve, then tap Approve Selected.

Download apps on your Gabb Phone 4 📲

Essential apps

The Gabb Phone 4 comes with 15 essential apps pre-installed, including:

  • Camera

  • Photos

  • Weather by Gabb

  • Calculator

  • Notes

  • Clock

  • Audio Player

  • Sound Recorder

All of our pre-loaded apps are designed to keep kids safe and do not have access to the internet or social media.

Limited additional apps

Gabb offers 11 additional curated apps on the Gabb Phone 4:

  • Bible App by Olive Tree

  • Chabad.org Daily Torah Study

  • Chess

  • Gospel Library

  • Greenlight

  • Mini Golf

  • Quran

  • Sillyble

  • Solitaire

  • Sora

Here’s how to add one of these apps to your child’s Gabb Phone 4:

  1. Log in to the MyGabb app.

  2. Tap Manage.

  3. Tap on your child's Gabb Phone 4.

  4. Tap Manage Apps.

  5. Browse or search for the app you want to download.

  6. Tap Add next to the app’s name.

  7. Tap Add App.

  8. Connect your Gabb Phone 4 to WiFi, log in to the Gabb ID app then select Check for Updates. The app will be added to the Gabb phone. ✅

What's in the box & specs 📦

What's in the box

  • Nuu X6 Plus phone

    • SIM Card pre-installed

    • Removable battery: This phone can’t be shipped with the battery installed. After you receive your Gabb Phone 4, insert the battery into the back of the phone. The gold contacts must be in the upper-right corner.

  • Charging brick

  • USB-A to USB-C charging cable

  • 3.5mm headphones

  • Insert with activation URL

Phone specs

Device model

Nuu X6 Plus

Network capability

4G

Processor

Quad-Core

Display

6.1"

Storage

32GB

Camera

13MP Wide/5MP Ultrawide

Coverage

Gabb’s cellular service runs on America’s best network. We offer service in the United States only.

Gabb devices will not make calls internationally, but when connected to WiFi, your child can use Gabb Messenger to make video calls & send text messages.

Troubleshooting 🚨

If you're having an issue with something that isn't related to activating your Gabb phone, please reference our Gabb Phone 4 troubleshooting article.

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