Use parental controls on your kid'due south iPhone, iPad, and iPod affect

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

  • Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

  • Foreclose iTunes & App Store purchases

  • Let built-in apps and features

  • Foreclose explicit content and content ratings

  • Preclude spider web content

  • Restrict Siri spider web search

  • Restrict Game Centre

  • Allow changes to privacy settings

  • Permit changes to other settings and features

Fix Content & Privacy Restrictions

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Plough on Screen Time, and so tap it again. Cull "This is My [Device]" or "This is My Child's [Device]."
    • If y'all're the parent or guardian of your device and want to prevent another family member from irresolute your settings, tap Use Screen Time Passcode to create a passcode, and then re-enter the passcode to confirm. Afterward you confirm your passcode you'll exist asked to enter your Apple tree ID and password. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget information technology.
    • If you lot're setting up Screen Time on your child'southward device, follow the prompts until yous get to Screen Time Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to confirm. After you confirm your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and password. This tin be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if yous forget it.
  3. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode, and so turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions.

Make certain to choose a passcode that'south dissimilar from the passcode that you lot use to unlock your device. To change or turn off the passcode on your child'south device, tap Settings > Screen Time > [your child's name]. And then tap Change Screen Fourth dimension Passcode or Plough Off Screen Time Passcode, and authenticate the change with Confront ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode.

With iOS sixteen, while you lot're setting upwards Screen Time for a child's device, y'all can set age-related restrictions for content in apps, books, Boob tube shows, and movies. Just follow the onscreen instructions during setup.

If y'all forgot your Screen Time passcode, update your device to the latest iOS or iPadOS then reset your passcode. If you lot tin't update your device, erase it and set up it upward every bit 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.

Prevent iTunes & App Store purchases

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

You can as well change your password settings for additional purchases from the iTunes & App Store or Volume Store. Follow steps 1-3, then choose Ever 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

Yous can restrict the employ of built-in apps or features. If you turn off an app or feature, the app or feature won't be deleted, it's just temporarily hidden from your Domicile Screen. For example, if you plough off Mail, the Mail app won't appear on your Home Screen until y'all turn it back on.

To change your Allowed Apps:

  1. Become 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 want to allow.

Prevent explicit content and content ratings

Y'all can likewise forbid the playback of music with explicit content and movies or TV shows with specific ratings. Apps also have ratings that tin 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, so tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Choose the settings that yous desire for each feature or setting under Immune Store Content.

Here are the types of content that you can restrict:

  • Music, Podcasts, News, Fitness: Forbid the playback of music, music videos, podcasts, news, and workouts containing explicit content
  • Music Videos: Foreclose finding and viewing music videos
  • Music Profiles: Preclude sharing what you're listening to with friends and seeing what they're listening to
  • Movies: Prevent movies with specific ratings
  • TV Shows: Prevent TV shows with specific ratings
  • Books: Forestall content with specific ratings
  • Apps: Prevent 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 tin can automatically filter website content to limit access to developed content in Safari and other apps on your device. You can also add specific websites to an approved or blocked list, or you tin 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 Adult Websites, or Allowed Websites.

Depending on the access you permit, y'all might need to add information, like the website that you 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. Scroll down to Siri, then choose your settings.

Yous tin restrict these Siri features:

  • Web Search Content: Foreclose Siri from searching the web when y'all ask a question
  • Explicit Language: Foreclose Siri from displaying explicit linguistic communication

Restrict Game Center

To restrict Game Center features:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Curlicue downwardly to Game Middle, then cull your settings.

Y'all can restrict these Game Center features:

  • Multiplayer Games: Preclude the power to play multiplayer games with everyone, permit with friends only, or let with anyone
  • Calculation Friends: Prevent the ability to add friends to Game Eye
  • Connect with Friends: Prevent the ability to share a Game Heart friend list with tertiary-party games
  • Screen Recording: Preclude the ability to capture the screen and sound
  • Nearby Multiplayer: Foreclose the power to enable the nearby setting
  • Private Messaging: Prevent the ability to vox chat or send or receive custom messages with game and friend invitations
  • Contour Privacy Changes: Foreclose the power to change profile privacy settings
  • Avatar & Nickname Changes: Prevent the ability to change Game Center avatars and nicknames

Allow changes to privacy settings

The privacy settings on your device give you control over which apps have access to information stored on your device or the hardware features. For example, you tin can allow a social-networking app to request admission to apply the camera, which allows y'all 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 Under Privacy, then choose the settings that you lot want to restrict.

Here are the things you can restrict:

  • Location Services: Lock the settings to let apps and websites to utilize 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 Find My Friends
  • Bluetooth sharing: Prevent devices and apps from sharing data through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Forbid apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Speech Recognition: Prevent apps from accessing Speech Recognition or Dictation
  • Apple Advertising: Forestall changes to ad settings
  • Permit Apps to Request to Track: Prevent tracking activity by apps that you lot've denied access to
  • Media & Apple tree Music: Foreclose apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

Allow changes to other settings and features

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

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

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

  • Passcode Changes: Forestall changes to your passcode
  • Account Changes: Prevent account changes in Accounts & Passwords
  • Cellular Data Changes: Prevent changes to cellular data settings
  • Reduce Loud Sounds: Prevent changes to volume settings for safety 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 not apps run in the background

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