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

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

  • Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

  • Preclude iTunes & App Store purchases

  • Allow congenital-in apps and features

  • Forbid explicit content and content ratings

  • Prevent web content

  • Restrict Siri spider web search

  • Restrict Game Middle

  • Allow 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 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 fellow member from irresolute your settings, tap Use Screen Fourth dimension Passcode to create a passcode, then re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.4 and later on, after 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 yous forget it.
    • If yous're setting up Screen Time on your child's device, follow the prompts until y'all go to Parent Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS thirteen.4 and later on, after you 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 you forget information technology.
  3. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode, then turn on Content & Privacy.

Make sure to choose a passcode that's dissimilar from the passcode that you use to unlock your device. To change or turn off the passcode on your child'due south device, tap Settings > Screen Time > [your child's name]. Then tap Alter Screen Time Passcode or Turn Off Screen Time Passcode, and cosign the change with Face ID, Touch 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 information technology and prepare it up as new to remove the passcode and choose a new ane. 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.

Forestall iTunes & App Shop purchases

You lot can likewise prevent your child from being able to install or delete apps, brand in-app purchases, and more. To forestall iTunes & App Shop purchases or downloads:

  1. Become 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.

Y'all tin can too change your countersign settings for additional purchases from the iTunes & App Store or Book Store. Follow steps 1-3, and so choose E'er 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 use 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 Dwelling house Screen. For example, if you plough off Mail, the Postal service app won't appear on your Habitation Screen until you turn information technology 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 y'all want to allow.

Foreclose explicit content and content ratings

You can also forbid the playback of music with explicit content and movies or Goggle box shows with specific ratings. Apps as well have ratings that can be configured using content restrictions.

To restrict explicit content and content ratings:

  1. Get to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Choose the settings that yous want for each feature or setting nether Allowed Store Content.

Here are the types of content that y'all tin can 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'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: Prevent content with specific ratings
  • Apps: Prevent 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.

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 lot tin can also add specific websites to an canonical or blocked list, or you can limit access to only approved websites. Follow these steps:

  1. Become to Settings and tap Screen Fourth dimension.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions and enter your Screen Time passcode.
  3. Tap Content Restrictions, and then tap Spider web Content.
  4. Choose Unrestricted Admission, Limit Adult Websites, or Allowed Websites Merely.

Depending on the access you let, you lot might need to add together information, similar the website that y'all want 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. Scroll down to Siri, then choose your settings.

Yous can restrict these Siri features:

  • Spider web Search Content: Forbid Siri from searching the web when y'all ask a question
  • Explicit Linguistic communication: Prevent Siri from displaying explicit linguistic communication

Restrict Game Middle

To restrict Game Centre features:

  1. Get to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Scroll downwardly to Game Center, then choose your settings.

Yous tin can restrict these Game Heart features:

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

Allow changes to privacy settings

The privacy settings on your device requite you command over which apps accept access to information stored on your device or the hardware features. For example, you tin allow a social-networking app to request admission to use the camera, which allows you to take and upload pictures.

To allow 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, and so choose the settings that you lot want to restrict.

Hither are the things you can restrict:

  • Location Services: Lock the settings to allow apps and websites to utilise 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: Foreclose devices and apps from sharing data through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Forbid apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Speech Recognition: Prevent apps from accessing Spoken language Recognition or Dictation
  • Advertising: Forbid changes to advertisement settings
  • Media & Apple tree Music: Preclude apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

Let 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 Allow Changes, select the features or settings that yous want to allow 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: Foreclose 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: Prevent changes to the Driving Focus
  • Tv Provider: Prevent changes to Idiot box provider settings
  • Background App Activities: Prevent changes to whether or non apps run in the background

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