Use parental controls on your child's iPhone, iPad, and iPod affect

With Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time, you can block or limit specific apps and features on your kid'south device. You can also restrict the settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch for explicit content, purchases and downloads, and privacy.

  • Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

  • Preclude iTunes & App Shop purchases

  • Allow built-in apps and features

  • Foreclose explicit content and content ratings

  • Forbid web content

  • Restrict Siri web search

  • Restrict Game Center

  • Allow changes to privacy settings

  • Permit changes to other settings and features

Gear up Content & Privacy Restrictions

  1. Get to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Continue, and so choose "This is My [Device]" or "This is My Kid'due south [Device]."
    • If you're the parent or guardian of your device and want to preclude another family unit member from changing your settings, tap Utilize Screen Time Passcode to create a passcode, then re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.4 and later, afterward you confirm your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and password. This can be used to reset your Screen Fourth dimension passcode if you forget information technology.
    • If you're setting up Screen Time on your child's device, follow the prompts until you lot get to Parent Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.4 and afterwards, after you confirm your passcode yous'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and password. This can exist used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget it.
  3. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode, so turn on Content & Privacy.

Make sure to choose a passcode that's unlike from the passcode that yous apply to unlock your device. To modify or plough off the passcode on your child'south device, tap Settings > Screen Time > [your child's name]. Then tap Alter Screen Time Passcode or Plough Off Screen Time Passcode, and authenticate the modify with Confront ID, Bear on ID, or your device passcode.

If you forgot your Screen Time passcode, update your device to the latest iOS or iPadOS and so reset your passcode. If you can't update your device, erase it and set it up as new to remove the passcode and choose a new one. Restoring your device from a backup 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 tin can also prevent your child from being able to install or delete apps, brand in-app purchases, and more. To forbid iTunes & App Shop purchases or downloads:

  1. Get to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Tap iTunes & App Shop Purchases.
  4. Cull a setting and gear up to Don't Allow.

Yous can also change your countersign settings for additional purchases from the iTunes & App Store or Book Store. Follow steps 1-three, and so choose Always Require or Don't Require.

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

Permit congenital-in apps and features

You tin restrict the use of built-in apps or features. If you turn off an app or feature, the app or feature won't be deleted, it's only temporarily hidden from your Habitation Screen. For instance, if you lot plough off Mail, the Mail app won't appear on your Home Screen until you turn information technology back on.

To modify your Allowed Apps:

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

Foreclose explicit content and content ratings

You tin can likewise forestall the playback of music with explicit content and movies or Television receiver shows with specific ratings. Apps also accept ratings that tin be configured using content restrictions.

To restrict explicit content and content ratings:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, and then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Choose the settings that you want for each feature or setting under Immune Store Content.

Here are the types of content that you can restrict:

  • Music, Podcasts, News, & Workouts: Prevent the playback of music, music videos, podcasts, news, and workouts containing explicit content
  • Music Videos: Prevent finding and viewing music videos
  • Music Profiles: Prevent sharing what you're listening to with friends and seeing what they're listening to
  • Movies: Prevent movies with specific ratings
  • Boob tube Shows: Forestall TV shows with specific ratings
  • Books: Foreclose content with specific ratings
  • Apps: Foreclose apps with specific ratings
  • App Clips: Prevent 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 content

iOS and iPadOS can automatically filter website content to limit access to adult content in Safari and other apps on your device. You tin can also add specific websites to an approved or blocked list, or you can limit access to simply approved websites. Follow these steps:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Fourth dimension.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions and enter your Screen Time passcode.
  3. Tap Content Restrictions, and so tap Web Content.
  4. Cull Unrestricted Admission, Limit Adult Websites, or Allowed Websites Only.

Depending on the admission you let, you might demand to add information, similar the website that you lot want to restrict.

Restrict Siri web search

To restrict Siri features:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Ringlet down to Siri, then cull your settings.

You can restrict these Siri features:

  • Spider web Search Content: Prevent Siri from searching the web when you inquire a question
  • Explicit Linguistic communication: Forbid Siri from displaying explicit language

Restrict Game Eye

To restrict Game Center features:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Fourth dimension.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Scroll down to Game Center, then choose your settings.

You tin restrict these Game Middle features:

  • Multiplayer Games: Prevent the power to play multiplayer games with anybody, let with friends only, or allow with anyone
  • Adding Friends: Foreclose the ability to add friends to Game Middle
  • Connect with Friends: Prevent the ability to share a Game Eye friend listing with 3rd-party games
  • Screen Recording: Foreclose the ability to capture the screen and sound
  • Nearby Multiplayer: Forbid the ability to enable the nearby setting
  • Private Messaging: Prevent the ability to vocalism chat or send or receive custom messages with game and friend invitations
  • Contour Privacy Changes: Foreclose the ability to alter contour privacy settings
  • Avatar & Nickname Changes: Forestall the ability to change Game Eye avatars and nicknames

Allow changes to privacy settings

The privacy settings on your device give you command over which apps have access to information stored on your device or the hardware features. For instance, yous can allow a social-networking app to request access to use the camera, which allows you lot to take and upload pictures.

To allow changes to privacy settings:

  1. Get to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Tap Privacy, then choose the settings that you want to restrict.

Hither are the things you tin can restrict:

  • Location Services: Lock the settings to let apps and websites to use location
  • Contacts: Prevent apps from accessing your Contacts
  • Calendars: Prevent apps from accessing your Calendar
  • Reminders: Prevent apps from accessing your Reminders
  • Photos: Prevent apps from requesting access to your photos
  • Share My Location: Lock the settings for location sharing in Letters and Notice My Friends
  • Bluetooth sharing: Forestall devices and apps from sharing information through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Prevent apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Spoken language Recognition: Preclude apps from accessing Speech Recognition or Dictation
  • Advert: Foreclose changes to advertising settings
  • Media & Apple tree Music: Forbid apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

Permit changes to other settings and features

You tin can allow changes to other settings and features, the same way you tin allow changes to privacy settings.

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Fourth dimension.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Nether Let Changes, select the features or settings that you lot want to allow changes to and choose Allow or Don't Allow.

Hither are some features and settings that you tin can allow changes for:

  • Passcode Changes: Prevent changes to your passcode
  • Account Changes: Prevent account changes in Accounts & Passwords
  • Cellular Data Changes: Foreclose changes to cellular data settings
  • Reduce Loud Sounds: Prevent changes to volume settings for prophylactic listening
  • Driving Focus: Prevent changes to the Driving Focus
  • TV Provider: Prevent changes to Television receiver provider settings
  • Groundwork App Activities: Foreclose changes to whether or non apps run in the background

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