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

With Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time, you tin block or limit specific apps and features on your child'southward device. Yous 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 Shop purchases

  • Allow built-in apps and features

  • Preclude explicit content and content ratings

  • Forestall web content

  • Restrict Siri spider web search

  • Restrict Game Center

  • Allow changes to privacy settings

  • Let changes to other settings and features

Set 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's [Device]."
    • If you're the parent or guardian of your device and want to prevent another family unit member from changing your settings, tap Use Screen Time Passcode to create a passcode, and then re-enter the passcode to ostend. In iOS xiii.four and later, after you confirm your passcode yous'll exist asked to enter your Apple tree ID and password. This tin be used to reset your Screen Fourth dimension passcode if you forget it.
    • If you're setting up Screen Time on your child's device, follow the prompts until yous go to Parent Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to ostend. In iOS 13.4 and afterwards, after yous ostend your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple tree ID and countersign. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you lot forget information technology.
  3. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode, and so turn on Content & Privacy.

Make sure to choose a passcode that's unlike from the passcode that you lot utilize to unlock your device. To modify or turn off the passcode on your child's device, tap Settings > Screen Fourth dimension > [your child's name]. Then tap Change Screen Fourth dimension Passcode or Turn Off Screen Time Passcode, and cosign the change with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode.

If y'all forgot your Screen Time passcode, update your device to the latest iOS or iPadOS then reset your passcode. If yous can't update your device, erase information technology and set it up as new to remove the passcode and choose a new one. Restoring your device from a fill-in 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.

Foreclose iTunes & App Store purchases

You lot can as well prevent your child from existence able to install or delete apps, make in-app purchases, and more. To prevent iTunes & App Store purchases or downloads:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Fourth dimension.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Tap iTunes & App Store Purchases.
  4. Cull a setting and set to Don't Allow.

You can as well alter your password settings for boosted purchases from the iTunes & App Store or Volume Store. Follow steps i-iii, 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 tin restrict the employ of built-in apps or features. If you turn off an app or characteristic, the app or feature won't be deleted, information technology's merely temporarily hidden from your Abode Screen. For example, if you plough off Mail, the Mail app won't appear on your Home Screen until you 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 Allowed Apps.
  5. Select the apps that you want to permit.

Prevent explicit content and content ratings

Y'all can also 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. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, so tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Cull the settings that you want for each feature or setting under Allowed Store Content.

Hither 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: Forbid 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: Foreclose 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 can automatically filter website content to limit admission to developed content in Safari and other apps on your device. You tin also add specific websites to an approved or blocked list, or you can limit admission to merely 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, so tap Spider web Content.
  4. Choose Unrestricted Admission, Limit Developed Websites, or Allowed Websites Simply.

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

Restrict Siri web search

To restrict Siri features:

  1. Get to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Curl down to Siri, then choose your settings.

You tin restrict these Siri features:

  • Web Search Content: Prevent Siri from searching the spider web when you enquire a question
  • Explicit Language: Prevent 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. Ringlet downward to Game Center, then choose your settings.

You can restrict these Game Center features:

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

Permit changes to privacy settings

The privacy settings on your device give you control over which apps accept access to information stored on your device or the hardware features. For instance, you can let a social-networking app to request access to use 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 Privacy, so choose the settings that you want to restrict.

Here are the things yous can restrict:

  • Location Services: Lock the settings to let apps and websites to utilize location
  • Contacts: Prevent apps from accessing your Contacts
  • Calendars: Foreclose apps from accessing your Calendar
  • Reminders: Prevent apps from accessing your Reminders
  • Photos: Prevent apps from requesting admission to your photos
  • Share My Location: Lock the settings for location sharing in Messages and Observe My Friends
  • Bluetooth sharing: Prevent devices and apps from sharing information through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Prevent apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Oral communication Recognition: Forestall apps from accessing Speech Recognition or Dictation
  • Advertising: Forestall changes to advertising settings
  • Media & Apple Music: Foreclose apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

Allow changes to other settings and features

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

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

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

  • Passcode Changes: Forestall 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: Preclude changes to the Driving Focus
  • Television Provider: Preclude changes to TV provider settings
  • Background App Activities: Prevent changes to whether or non apps run in the background

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