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

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

  • Prepare Content & Privacy Restrictions

  • Foreclose iTunes & App Store purchases

  • Permit built-in apps and features

  • Prevent explicit content and content ratings

  • Prevent web content

  • Restrict Siri web search

  • Restrict Game Center

  • Let changes to privacy settings

  • Allow changes to other settings and features

Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Fourth dimension.
  2. Tap Go on, then choose "This is My [Device]" or "This is My Child'southward [Device]."
    • If you're the parent or guardian of your device and want to forestall another family fellow member from changing your settings, tap Use Screen Fourth dimension Passcode to create a passcode, so re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.4 and later, later on you lot confirm your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and password. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if yous forget it.
    • If you lot're setting up Screen Time on your child's device, follow the prompts until you get to Parent Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.four and afterward, after y'all confirm your passcode you'll exist asked to enter your Apple ID and password. This tin be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if y'all forget it.
  3. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode, then turn on Content & Privacy.

Make sure to cull a passcode that's different from the passcode that yous use to unlock your device. To change or plow off the passcode on your child's device, tap Settings > Screen Time > [your kid'south name]. Then tap Change Screen Time Passcode or Turn Off Screen Time Passcode, and authenticate the change with Face up ID, Bear upon 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 fix it upward equally 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 as well prevent your kid from being able to install or delete apps, brand 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 up to Don't Permit.

Y'all can too change your password settings for boosted purchases from the iTunes & App Shop or Book Store. Follow steps 1-3, so choose Always Crave or Don't Crave.

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

Allow built-in apps and features

You can restrict the use of born apps or features. If yous turn off an app or feature, the app or feature won't be deleted, it'due south simply temporarily hidden from your Habitation Screen. For example, if you lot turn off Mail, the Mail app won't appear on your Dwelling house Screen until you lot 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 Fourth dimension passcode.
  4. Tap Allowed Apps.
  5. Select the apps that y'all want to permit.

Preclude explicit content and content ratings

Y'all tin also prevent the playback of music with explicit content and movies or Telly shows with specific ratings. Apps also take 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, and so tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Choose the settings that y'all want for each feature or setting under Immune Store Content.

Here are the types of content that you tin 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 lot're listening to with friends and seeing what they're listening to
  • Movies: Forestall movies with specific ratings
  • Television set Shows: Prevent Tv shows with specific ratings
  • Books: Prevent content with specific ratings
  • Apps: Forestall apps with specific 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.

Foreclose spider web content

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

  1. Become to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions and enter your Screen Fourth dimension passcode.
  3. Tap Content Restrictions, then tap Web Content.
  4. Choose Unrestricted Access, Limit Adult Websites, or Immune Websites Just.

Depending on the access you let, yous 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 Fourth dimension.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, and so tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Scroll downwards to Siri, and then choose your settings.

You tin can restrict these Siri features:

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

Restrict Game Center

To restrict Game Center features:

  1. Get to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  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: Preclude the power to play multiplayer games with everyone, permit with friends just, or allow with anyone
  • Adding Friends: Prevent the ability to add friends to Game Center
  • Connect with Friends: Prevent the ability to share a Game Center friend list with 3rd-party games
  • Screen Recording: Prevent the ability to capture the screen and sound
  • Nearby Multiplayer: Prevent the ability to enable the nearby setting
  • Individual Messaging: Forbid the ability to voice chat or send or receive custom letters with game and friend invitations
  • Profile Privacy Changes: Prevent the ability to change profile privacy settings
  • Avatar & Nickname Changes: Forestall 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 can allow a social-networking app to request access to use the camera, which allows you lot to have and upload pictures.

To permit 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 yous want to restrict.

Here are the things you lot can restrict:

  • Location Services: Lock the settings to permit 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 Messages and Find My Friends
  • Bluetooth sharing: Prevent devices and apps from sharing information through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Prevent apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Speech Recognition: Prevent apps from accessing Speech Recognition or Dictation
  • Advertising: Prevent changes to advert settings
  • Media & Apple Music: Forestall 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 aforementioned manner 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. Under Allow Changes, select the features or settings that yous want to let changes to and choose Let or Don't Allow.

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

  • Passcode Changes: Prevent changes to your passcode
  • Account Changes: Prevent business relationship 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: Foreclose 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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