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With Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Fourth dimension, you tin can cake or limit specific apps and features on your child's device. You can also restrict the settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact for explicit content, purchases and downloads, and privacy.

  • Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

  • Prevent iTunes & App Store purchases

  • Allow congenital-in apps and features

  • Forbid explicit content and content ratings

  • Foreclose web content

  • Restrict Siri web search

  • Restrict Game Center

  • Permit changes to privacy settings

  • Allow changes to other settings and features

Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

  1. Become to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Continue, and so choose "This is My [Device]" or "This is My Child'due south [Device]."
    • If you lot're the parent or guardian of your device and want to forbid another family fellow member from changing your settings, tap Utilise Screen Time Passcode to create a passcode, and so re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.four and subsequently, after you lot confirm your passcode yous'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 y'all're setting up Screen Time on your kid'south device, follow the prompts until you lot get to Parent Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to confirm. In iOS 13.iv and later, after y'all ostend your passcode y'all'll be asked to enter your Apple tree ID and password. This can exist 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 certain to choose a passcode that'southward different from the passcode that you utilize to unlock your device. To change or turn off the passcode on your kid'south device, tap Settings > Screen Fourth dimension > [your kid's name]. Then tap Change Screen Time Passcode or Turn Off Screen Time Passcode, and authenticate the modify with Face up ID, Affect 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 you can't update your device, erase it and set up it upward equally 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.

Prevent iTunes & App Store purchases

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

  1. Get 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 set to Don't Permit.

Y'all can as well change your password settings for boosted purchases from the iTunes & App Shop or Book Store. Follow steps one-iii, then 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 tin restrict the use of built-in apps or features. If y'all turn off an app or feature, the app or feature won't be deleted, it'due south only temporarily subconscious from your Habitation Screen. For example, if you lot plow off Mail, the Mail app won't appear on your Dwelling house Screen until you turn it back on.

To alter your Allowed Apps:

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions.
  3. Enter your Screen Time passcode.
  4. Tap Immune Apps.
  5. Select the apps that you desire to allow.

Prevent explicit content and content ratings

You 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, then 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 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 y'all're listening to with friends and seeing what they're listening to
  • Movies: Forbid movies with specific ratings
  • TV Shows: Prevent Television receiver shows with specific ratings
  • Books: Prevent 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.

Forestall web content

iOS and iPadOS tin can automatically filter website content to limit admission to adult content in Safari and other apps on your device. You lot tin can too add specific websites to an approved or blocked list, or you lot tin limit access to only 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, and so tap Spider web Content.
  4. Choose Unrestricted Access, Limit Adult Websites, or Allowed Websites Only.

Depending on the access yous allow, you lot might demand to add information, similar 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, so tap Content Restrictions.
  3. Coil downward to Siri, then cull your settings.

You can restrict these Siri features:

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

Restrict Game Eye

To restrict Game Center features:

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

You can restrict these Game Heart features:

  • Multiplayer Games: Preclude the ability to play multiplayer games with everyone, allow with friends only, or allow with anyone
  • Calculation Friends: Forestall the ability to add friends to Game Center
  • Connect with Friends: Forestall the ability to share a Game Center friend listing with 3rd-political party games
  • Screen Recording: Forbid the power to capture the screen and sound
  • Nearby Multiplayer: Forestall the ability to enable the nearby setting
  • Private Messaging: Forbid the ability to voice conversation 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: Foreclose 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 let a social-networking app to request access to use the camera, which allows you to accept and upload pictures.

To permit 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, then choose the settings that y'all want to restrict.

Hither are the things you lot can restrict:

  • Location Services: Lock the settings to allow apps and websites to apply location
  • Contacts: Foreclose apps from accessing your Contacts
  • Calendars: Prevent apps from accessing your Agenda
  • Reminders: Prevent apps from accessing your Reminders
  • Photos: Forbid apps from requesting access to your photos
  • Share My Location: Lock the settings for location sharing in Messages and Notice My Friends
  • Bluetooth sharing: Prevent devices and apps from sharing data through Bluetooth
  • Microphone: Prevent apps from requesting access to your microphone
  • Spoken language Recognition: Foreclose apps from accessing Voice communication Recognition or Dictation
  • Advertisement: Forbid changes to advert settings
  • Media & Apple Music: Prevent apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

Allow changes to other settings and features

You can permit changes to other settings and features, the same way you tin permit changes to privacy settings.

  1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.
  3. Under Let Changes, select the features or settings that y'all want to permit changes to and cull Permit or Don't Allow.

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

  • Passcode Changes: Foreclose changes to your passcode
  • Business relationship Changes: Prevent business relationship changes in Accounts & Passwords
  • Cellular Information Changes: Prevent changes to cellular data settings
  • Reduce Loud Sounds: Forbid changes to volume settings for condom listening
  • Driving Focus: Prevent changes to the Driving Focus
  • TV Provider: Forbid changes to TV provider settings
  • Background App Activities: Prevent changes to whether or not apps run in the background

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