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

  • Prepare Content & Privacy Restrictions

  • Preclude iTunes & App Store purchases

  • Allow born 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

  • Permit changes to other settings and features

Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

  1. Become to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Continue, so 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 prevent another family unit fellow member from changing your settings, tap Employ Screen Time Passcode to create a passcode, then re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.4 and later, after you confirm your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and countersign. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget it.
    • If you lot're setting up Screen Fourth dimension on your kid's device, follow the prompts until yous become to Parent Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.four and afterwards, after you lot confirm your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and countersign. 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, and so turn on Content & Privacy.

Brand sure to choose a passcode that's unlike from the passcode that yous employ to unlock your device. To change or turn off the passcode on your kid'south device, tap Settings > Screen Fourth dimension > [your child'due south name]. Then tap Alter Screen Time Passcode or Turn Off Screen Time Passcode, and authenticate the modify 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 and so reset your passcode. If y'all tin't update your device, erase it and gear up it up as new to remove the passcode and cull 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.

Forbid iTunes & App Shop purchases

You lot can also prevent your child from being able to install or delete apps, brand in-app purchases, and more. To preclude iTunes & App Shop 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. Choose a setting and set to Don't Permit.

You lot can too change your password settings for boosted purchases from the iTunes & App Store or Volume Shop. Follow steps 1-3, 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

Y'all tin can restrict the use of built-in apps or features. If you plough off an app or feature, the app or feature won't be deleted, information technology'due south just temporarily hidden from your Habitation Screen. For example, if you turn off Mail, the Mail app won't appear on your Home Screen until you plough it back on.

To change your Immune 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.

Forbid explicit content and content ratings

You can too forbid the playback of music with explicit content and movies or TV shows with specific ratings. Apps also have ratings that can exist 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 you want for each feature or setting under Allowed 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: 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 Goggle box shows with specific ratings
  • Books: Preclude 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.

Preclude web content

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

  1. Go 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. Cull Unrestricted Access, Limit Adult Websites, or Allowed Websites Only.

Depending on the access you permit, you might demand to add information, like the website that yous 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 cull your settings.

You can restrict these Siri features:

  • Web Search Content: Forestall Siri from searching the web when you enquire a question
  • Explicit Language: Forbid Siri from displaying explicit linguistic communication

Restrict Game Eye

To restrict Game Center features:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, so tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Gyre down to Game Middle, then choose your settings.

You can restrict these Game Eye features:

  • Multiplayer Games: Prevent the ability to play multiplayer games with everyone, let with friends simply, or allow with anyone
  • Adding Friends: Prevent the power to add friends to Game Center
  • Connect with Friends: Forbid the ability to share a Game Heart friend listing with third-political party games
  • Screen Recording: Prevent the ability to capture the screen and sound
  • Nearby Multiplayer: Prevent the power to enable the nearby setting
  • Private Messaging: Prevent the power to voice chat or transport or receive custom letters with game and friend invitations
  • Profile Privacy Changes: Forestall the ability to change contour privacy settings
  • Avatar & Nickname Changes: Forbid the ability to modify Game Heart avatars and nicknames

Allow changes to privacy settings

The privacy settings on your device give you lot control over which apps have access to information stored on your device or the hardware features. For example, you lot can allow a social-networking app to request admission to utilise the camera, which allows you lot to take and upload pictures.

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

Here are the things yous tin 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 admission to your photos
  • Share My Location: Lock the settings for location sharing in Messages and Discover My Friends
  • Bluetooth sharing: Prevent devices and apps from sharing data through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Prevent apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Speech Recognition: Forestall apps from accessing Speech Recognition or Dictation
  • Advert: Prevent changes to advertising settings
  • Media & Apple Music: Prevent apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

Permit changes to other settings and features

You tin can permit changes to other settings and features, the aforementioned way 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 Let 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 lot tin can allow changes for:

  • Passcode Changes: Prevent changes to your passcode
  • Account Changes: Prevent business relationship changes in Accounts & Passwords
  • Cellular Data Changes: Preclude changes to cellular data settings
  • Reduce Loud Sounds: Prevent changes to volume settings for safe listening
  • Driving Focus: Preclude changes to the Driving Focus
  • TV Provider: Forbid changes to Boob tube provider settings
  • Background App Activities: Prevent changes to whether or not apps run in the groundwork

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