Use parental controls on your child'due south iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

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

  • Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

  • Prevent iTunes & App Store purchases

  • Allow congenital-in apps and features

  • Prevent explicit content and content ratings

  • Prevent web content

  • Restrict Siri web search

  • Restrict Game Heart

  • Allow changes to privacy settings

  • Allow changes to other settings and features

Prepare Content & Privacy Restrictions

  1. Become to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Go on, then cull "This is My [Device]" or "This is My Child'southward [Device]."
    • If yous're the parent or guardian of your device and want to prevent another family unit member from irresolute your settings, tap Employ Screen Time Passcode to create a passcode, and so re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.4 and later on, subsequently you ostend 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 it.
    • If y'all're setting upwardly Screen Time on your child's device, follow the prompts until you become to Parent Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.iv and afterwards, after you confirm your passcode you'll exist asked to enter your Apple ID and countersign. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget it.
  3. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode, then plow on Content & Privacy.

Make certain to choose a passcode that'south different from the passcode that you use to unlock your device. To modify or plow off the passcode on your child'due south device, tap Settings > Screen Time > [your child'southward name]. So tap Change Screen Time Passcode or Turn Off Screen Fourth dimension Passcode, and cosign the change with Face ID, Impact ID, or your device passcode.

If you forgot your Screen Fourth dimension passcode, update your device to the latest iOS or iPadOS then reset your passcode. If you can't update your device, erase it and set it up every bit new to remove the passcode and cull a new i. 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.

Prevent iTunes & App Store purchases

Yous can also prevent your child from being able to install or delete apps, make in-app purchases, and more than. To prevent 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 Store Purchases.
  4. Choose a setting and gear up to Don't Allow.

You can besides change your password settings for additional purchases from the iTunes & App Store or Book Shop. Follow steps one-three, and so choose Always Crave or Don't Crave.

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

Allow congenital-in apps and features

Y'all can restrict the use of congenital-in apps or features. If you turn off an app or feature, the app or characteristic won't exist deleted, it'south just temporarily hidden from your Home Screen. For example, if you turn off Mail service, the Postal service app won't appear on your Home Screen until you plough it back on.

To change your Immune Apps:

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

Prevent explicit content and content ratings

You tin likewise prevent the playback of music with explicit content and movies or TV shows with specific ratings. Apps also have ratings that can be configured using content restrictions.

To restrict explicit content and content ratings:

  1. Become to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, and so tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Choose the settings that you want for each feature or setting nether Allowed 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: Preclude finding and viewing music videos
  • Music Profiles: Preclude sharing what you lot're listening to with friends and seeing what they're listening to
  • Movies: Prevent movies with specific ratings
  • TV Shows: Prevent Idiot box shows with specific ratings
  • Books: Prevent content with specific ratings
  • Apps: Preclude apps with specific ratings
  • App Clips: Forbid 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 tin automatically filter website content to limit admission to developed content in Safari and other apps on your device. You can besides add specific websites to an approved or blocked listing, or you can limit access to just approved websites. Follow these steps:

  1. Get to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions and enter your Screen Time passcode.
  3. Tap Content Restrictions, then tap Spider web Content.
  4. Cull Unrestricted Access, Limit Adult Websites, or Allowed Websites Just.

Depending on the admission you allow, you might demand to add data, like the website that you want to restrict.

Restrict Siri spider web search

To restrict Siri features:

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

Y'all tin restrict these Siri features:

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

Restrict Game Eye

To restrict Game Center features:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Ringlet downwards to Game Center, then choose your settings.

You lot tin restrict these Game Eye features:

  • Multiplayer Games: Prevent the ability to play multiplayer games with anybody, allow with friends merely, or permit with anyone
  • Adding Friends: Prevent the ability to add friends to Game Heart
  • Connect with Friends: Prevent the power to share a Game Eye friend list with third-party games
  • Screen Recording: Prevent the power to capture the screen and sound
  • Nearby Multiplayer: Prevent the ability to enable the nearby setting
  • Individual Messaging: Prevent the power to voice chat or transport or receive custom messages with game and friend invitations
  • Contour Privacy Changes: Prevent the ability to alter profile privacy settings
  • Avatar & Nickname Changes: Prevent the ability to modify Game Centre avatars and nicknames

Permit 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 example, yous tin allow a social-networking app to request access to employ the photographic camera, which allows you to have and upload pictures.

To let changes to privacy settings:

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

Here are the things you tin can restrict:

  • Location Services: Lock the settings to allow apps and websites to use location
  • Contacts: Prevent apps from accessing your Contacts
  • Calendars: Prevent apps from accessing your Agenda
  • 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 Find My Friends
  • Bluetooth sharing: Prevent devices and apps from sharing information through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Prevent apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Spoken language Recognition: Forbid apps from accessing Spoken communication Recognition or Dictation
  • Advertising: Forestall changes to ad settings
  • Media & Apple tree Music: Foreclose apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

Allow changes to other settings and features

You can permit changes to other settings and features, the same fashion you can allow changes to privacy settings.

  1. Become to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Under Let Changes, select the features or settings that you want to let changes to and cull Allow or Don't Allow.

Here 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: Forbid changes to cellular data settings
  • Reduce Loud Sounds: Prevent changes to volume settings for condom listening
  • Driving Focus: Foreclose changes to the Driving Focus
  • TV Provider: Forbid changes to Telly provider settings
  • Background App Activities: Prevent changes to whether or not apps run in the groundwork

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