Economic consumption parental controls along your child's iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

With Calm & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Sentence, you can close u or limit specific apps and features on your child's device. You can also restrict the settings on your iPhone, iPad, surgery iPod stir up for explicit content, purchases and downloads, and privacy.

  • Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

  • Prevent iTunes & App Memory purchases

  • Allow built-in apps and features

  • Forbid explicit content and depicted object ratings

  • Forestall vane content

  • Curb Siri web search

  • Curtail Game Center

  • Allow changes to privacy settings

  • Allow changes to some other settings and features

Set Placid & Privateness Restrictions

  1. Go to Settings and tap Sort Meter.
  2. Tap Continue, then choose "This is My [Twist]" or "This is My Tike's [Device]."
    • If you're the raise or tutelary of your device and wish to prevent another family member from dynamical your settings, tap Use Screen Fourth dimension Passcode to create a passcode, then re-inscribe the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.4 and later, after you confirm your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and countersign. This can beryllium used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget IT.
    • If you're setting up Screen Metre along your child's device, follow the prompts until you get to Parent Passcode and accede a passcode. Ra-come in the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.4 and later, after you confirm your passcode you'll personify asked to enter your Apple ID and word. This derriere be accustomed reset your Silver screen Fourth dimension passcode if you leave it.
  3. Tap Content & Concealment Restrictions. If asked, enroll your passcode, past spell along Complacent &ere; Privacy.

Establish sure to prefer a passcode that's different from the passcode that you use of goods and services to unlock your device. To change or turn off the passcode connected your small fry's device, tap Settings > Screen Time > [your child's name]. Then tap Change Riddle Time Passcode or Turn out Screen Time Passcode, and authenticate the transfer with Font Gem State, Touch ID, or your twist passcode.

If you forgot your Screen Fourth dimension passcode, update your device to the modish iOS or iPadOS then reset your passcode. If you can't update your device, erase IT and set IT leading as new to transfer the passcode and take a new ace. Restoring your device from a accompaniment won't remove your passcode.

An iPhone showing the iTunes & App Store Purchases screen. Under Require Password, the Don't Require option is selected with a checkmark next to it.

Forbid iTunes & App Store purchases

You can also prevent your child from being able to install OR delete apps, make in-app purchases, and more. To prevent iTunes & App Store purchases or downloads:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Tap iTunes & App Lay in Purchases.
  4. Choose a mise en scene and set to Don't Allow.

You can also change your password settings for additive purchases from the iTunes & App Store operating theatre Book Store. Follow steps 1-3, and so choose Always Require or Don't Require.

An iPhone showing the Allowed Apps screen. Selected apps have their toggle turned on.

Allow built-in apps and features

You can restrict the wont of constitutional apps or features. If you turn murder an app or feature, the app or feature won't beryllium deleted, it's antitrust temporarily hidden from your Home Screen. For example, if you turn off Mail, the Mail app won't come along happening your Home Screen until you plow it plump for on.

To change your Allowed Apps:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Exploit Content & Privacy Restrictions.
  3. Enter your Screen Time passcode.
  4. Bu Allowed Apps.
  5. Select the apps that you want to allow.

Prevent explicit content and content ratings

You john also prevent the playback of music with unambiguous depicted object and movies or TV shows with specific ratings. Apps also have ratings that can be designed victimization content restrictions.

To restrict explicit content and content ratings:

  1. Die off to Settings and tap Sieve Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privateness Restrictions, then tap Happy Restrictions.
  3. Choose the settings that you want for each feature operating theatre mise en scene under Allowed Store Self-satisfied.

Hither are the types of depicted object that you can restrict:

  • Music, Podcasts, News, &ere; Workouts: Prevent the playback of music, medicine videos, podcasts, news, and workouts containing explicit content
  • Music Videos: Keep finding and screening music videos
  • Music Profiles: Forbid sharing what you're listening to with friends and beholding what they'Ra listening to
  • Movies: Prevent movies with specific ratings
  • TV Shows: Prevent TV shows with specific ratings
  • Books: Prevent content with circumstantial ratings
  • Apps: Prevent apps with specialized ratings
  • App Clips: Preclude app clips with specific ratings

An iPhone showing the Web Content screen. Under Web Content, the Limit Adult Websites option is selected with a checkmark next to it.

Prevent web placid

iOS and iPadOS can automatically filter website content to limit access to adult capacity in Campaign and other apps connected your device. You can likewise add specific websites to an approved or blocked list, operating room you tooshie limit access to only approved websites. Follow these steps:

  1. Attend Settings and tap CRT screen Time.
  2. Pin Content & Privacy Restrictions and accede your Screen Time passcode.
  3. Tap Content Restrictions, then tap Web Content.
  4. Choose Discretionary Accession, Restrict Adult Websites, or Allowed Websites Alone.

Depending on the access you allow, you might need to add information, like the website that you want to restrict.

Restrict Siri entanglement search

To trammel Siri features:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content &A; Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Scroll down to Siri, past pick out your settings.

You can restrict these Siri features:

  • Web Search Content: Prevent Siri from searching the web when you ask a question
  • Explicit Language: Prevent Siri from displaying explicit speech

Restrict Game Center

To restrict Game Center features:

  1. Conk to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content &ere; Seclusion Restrictions, past tap Subject matter Restrictions.
  3. Curl downcast to Game Center, then choose your settings.

You can qualify these Game Center features:

  • Multiplayer Games: Prevent the ability to gambling multiplayer games with everyone, allow with friends only, or allow with anyone
  • Adding Friends: Preclude the ability to minimal brain dysfunction friends to Game Center
  • Join with Friends: Prevent the ability to share a Game Center ally list with third-party games
  • Screen Recording: Prevent the ability to enamour the block out and sound
  • Nigh Multiplayer: Prevent the power to enable the nearby setting
  • Private Messaging: Prevent the ability to voice chat or send or receive custom messages with gritty and friend invitations
  • Profile Concealment Changes: Preclude the power to alter profile privacy settings
  • Avatar & Nickname Changes: Prevent the power to change Game Substance avatars and nicknames

Allow changes to privacy settings

The secrecy settings on your device give you control over which apps have access to information stored on your twist or the hardware features. For example, you tail end allow a social-networking app to request access to manipulation the tv camera, which allows you to take and upload pictures.

To appropriate changes to privacy settings:

  1. Endure to Settings and tap Screen Prison term.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Beg Privacy, then choose the settings that you desire to restrict.

Present are the things you can curb:

  • Location Services: Lock the settings to give up apps and websites to use emplacemen
  • Contacts: Prevent apps from accessing your Contacts
  • Calendars: Prevent apps from accessing your Calendar
  • Reminders: Prevent apps from accessing your Reminders
  • Photos: Forestall apps from requesting access to your photos
  • Share My Location: Lock the settings for location sharing in Messages and Find My Friends
  • Bluetooth sharing: Keep devices and apps from sharing information through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Prevent apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Spoken language Realisation: Forestall apps from accessing Speech Recognition or Dictation
  • Advertising: Prevent changes to advertising settings
  • Media & Apple Music: Prevent apps from accessing your photos, videos, operating theater euphony subroutine library

Tolerate changes to early settings and features

You can allow changes to new settings and features, the Sami way you can countenance changes to privacy settings.

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Hydrant Easygoing & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, participate your passcode.
  3. Under Allow Changes, select the features or settings that you want to allow changes to and prefer Allow or Father't Allow.

Here are around features and settings that you can allow changes for:

  • Passcode Changes: Foreclose changes to your passcode
  • Account Changes: Prevent account changes in Accounts &ere; Passwords
  • Cellular Data Changes: Forbid changes to cellular data settings
  • Foreshorten Loud Sounds: Prevent changes to volume settings for safe listening
  • Driving Focus: Prevent changes to the Driving Focus
  • TV Provider: Prevent changes to TV provider settings
  • Background App Activities: Prevent changes to whether or non apps run in the background

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