Apply parental controls on your child's iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

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

  • Set up Content & Privacy Restrictions

  • Prevent iTunes & App Store purchases

  • Let built-in apps and features

  • Prevent explicit content and content ratings

  • Prevent web content

  • Restrict Siri spider web search

  • Restrict Game Center

  • Allow changes to privacy settings

  • Let changes to other settings and features

Fix Content & Privacy Restrictions

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Continue, then choose "This is My [Device]" or "This is My Child'south [Device]."
    • If you're the parent or guardian of your device and desire to foreclose another family fellow member from changing your settings, tap Apply Screen Time Passcode to create a passcode, then re-enter the passcode to ostend. In iOS 13.four and later, after you lot confirm your passcode yous'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and password. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget information technology.
    • If you're setting up Screen Time on your child's device, follow the prompts until you lot go to Parent Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.4 and later, after y'all ostend your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and countersign. This tin be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget information technology.
  3. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode, then plow on Content & Privacy.

Make certain to choose a passcode that's different from the passcode that you lot use to unlock your device. To change or turn off the passcode on your child's device, tap Settings > Screen Time > [your kid'southward name]. And then tap Modify Screen Time Passcode or Plough Off Screen Fourth dimension Passcode, and cosign the modify with Face up ID, Impact ID, or your device passcode.

If yous forgot your Screen Time passcode, update your device to the latest iOS or iPadOS then reset your passcode. If you tin't update your device, erase it and set it up as new to remove the passcode and choose a new 1. 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

You tin too prevent your child from being able to install or delete apps, make in-app purchases, and more. To prevent iTunes & App Shop 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 Shop Purchases.
  4. Choose a setting and set to Don't Allow.

Yous can also change your password settings for additional purchases from the iTunes & App Store or Book Store. Follow steps one-3, then 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 employ of built-in apps or features. If yous plow off an app or feature, the app or feature won't be deleted, it'southward only temporarily hidden from your Home Screen. For example, if you plough off Mail, the Mail app won't appear on your Home Screen until yous turn it back on.

To change your Allowed Apps:

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

Prevent explicit content and content ratings

You can also forestall 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. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Choose the settings that you lot want for each feature or setting nether 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: Forestall 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
  • TV Shows: Forbid Television set shows with specific ratings
  • Books: Prevent 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.

Forbid web content

iOS and iPadOS tin automatically filter website content to limit access to developed content in Safari and other apps on your device. Yous tin can also add specific websites to an canonical or blocked list, or you tin can limit access to just 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, then tap Web Content.
  4. Choose Unrestricted Access, Limit Developed Websites, or Allowed Websites Only.

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

Restrict Siri web search

To restrict Siri features:

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

You lot 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 language

Restrict Game Center

To restrict Game Eye features:

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

Y'all tin can restrict these Game Center features:

  • Multiplayer Games: Prevent the ability to play multiplayer games with everyone, allow with friends merely, or let with anyone
  • Calculation Friends: Foreclose the ability to add together friends to Game Center
  • Connect with Friends: Prevent the power to share a Game Center friend list with third-party games
  • Screen Recording: Forbid the power to capture the screen and sound
  • Nearby Multiplayer: Forbid the ability to enable the nearby setting
  • Private Messaging: Prevent the power to vox chat or send or receive custom letters with game and friend invitations
  • Profile Privacy Changes: Prevent the ability to modify contour privacy settings
  • Avatar & Nickname Changes: Prevent the ability to change Game Middle avatars and nicknames

Allow changes to privacy settings

The privacy settings on your device requite y'all control over which apps have access to information stored on your device or the hardware features. For case, you can allow a social-networking app to request access to utilise the camera, which allows you to accept and upload pictures.

To let changes to privacy settings:

  1. Become 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 desire to restrict.

Here are the things you can restrict:

  • Location Services: Lock the settings to permit apps and websites to employ location
  • Contacts: Forestall apps from accessing your Contacts
  • Calendars: Prevent apps from accessing your Agenda
  • 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 Letters and Find My Friends
  • Bluetooth sharing: Forestall devices and apps from sharing data through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Forestall apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Speech Recognition: Preclude apps from accessing Voice communication Recognition or Dictation
  • Advert: Forestall changes to advertizement settings
  • Media & Apple Music: Foreclose apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

Permit changes to other settings and features

Yous can let changes to other settings and features, the same mode y'all 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. Nether Allow Changes, select the features or settings that you want to allow changes to and choose Allow or Don't Permit.

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

  • Passcode Changes: Prevent changes to your passcode
  • Account Changes: Preclude account changes in Accounts & Passwords
  • Cellular Data Changes: Prevent changes to cellular data settings
  • Reduce Loud Sounds: Prevent changes to volume settings for safe listening
  • Driving Focus: Prevent changes to the Driving Focus
  • Television Provider: Prevent changes to Goggle box provider settings
  • Groundwork App Activities: Prevent changes to whether or not apps run in the background

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