Let's figure out how to set up parental controls on your child's iPhone.
Parents who worry about what their kids see and do with their iPhone or iPod touch no longer have to look over their kids' shoulders all the time. Instead, they can use the tools built into iOS to manage the age ratings of the content, apps, and other features that children will have access to.
Similar tools - called iPhone Restrictions - are a complete suite of Apple services and applications. They offer interested parents ways to set up age limits that can be changed as their children grow.
To enable and configure these features, follow these steps:
After turning on age restrictions on the settings screen, you will see a long list of applications and phone features that you can block. Review each item and make a decision according to your child's age and your desires.
You will see a slider next to each item. Move it to the ON position to give your child access to an app or feature. Move the slider to the OFF position to block access. On systems starting with iOS 7, the ON position is shown as a green slider. The OFF position is the white color of the slider.
Here's what you need to know about each part of the settings screen:
The next part controls access to Apple's online stores.
The third part of the age restrictions screen is called Allowed content. Here you can control the type and age level of content your child can see on iPhone. There are the following items:
In the part called privacy you'll see plenty of privacy protections and security settings for your child's iPhone. The number of these settings is too large to describe them all in detail in this article. To learn more about them, read the article "Using privacy settings on iPhone". This part configures privacy protection for location services, contacts, calendars, notifications, camera, and other applications and tools.
next part, allow Changes, prevents your child from changing certain iPhone settings, including:
The last part contains the settings for Game Center game services:
When time passes and your child no longer needs age restrictions, you can turn off all these settings and return his iPhone to the initial state. You can turn off age restrictions much faster than setting them up.
To turn off all age restrictions, go to Settings -> Restrictions and enter the password. Then click on the button Disable Restrictions at the top of the screen.
From the very beginning, we denote that there is no parental control on the iPad as an exact concept. But "apple" devices can be configured so that the child could not perform certain actions. For example, a parent can put a ban on installing new software, visiting any resources.
On the iPad, parental control comes down to setting one or another restriction. Parents can put a certain type of ban on the iPad, and their child will not have access to a particular feature.
In order to set restrictions, you need to enter the main settings and select the appropriate item. If you enter there for the first time, we set the restriction option itself. Here you will need to compose a password, which you will have to drive in every time you enter this item.
The first item in the settings is resolution. Its name speaks for itself - here you can put prohibitions. How to enable restriction? Just check the boxes so that the child cannot access the browser, use the camera, erase software, or anything else. In this case, the installed programs will “hide”. Rather, their icons will disappear from the table.
Here you can set the possibility for self-installation or deletion of software, making purchases within the system. By deactivating these items, the user can be sure that his child will not download an expensive program or erase important data.
The other item is allowed content. Here it is allowed to put a block on programs with a certain age limit. For example, if you opt for software with a rating of +9, elements with better performance will disappear from the display. But from the memory of the device, they will not disappear, they will not be erased. Here you can generally hide non-native programs. Then the display will only show the usual list of “native” software for the tablet. In time, all these restrictions are valid without a limit - until the user removes them himself.
Another interesting item in this section is websites. Here you can set a block for the child to visit specific resources on the network. There are also restrictions on books, movies, music tracks, and so on.
But the point of privacy is not directly related to the kids. It refers to "non-native" programs for which locks are placed on the use of certain privacy options. Suppose, in contacts, you can put blocks on access to the corresponding elements from the side of specific programs.
In the permissions section, you can put a block on making restrictions on accounts. Here you can do exactly the same thing with updating the software and adjusting the sound level. And finally, the same procedure in the Apple Game Center means the availability of games with other users and adding friends.
This option allows you to cut down the possibility of using the device only within the boundaries of one currently open program. In this case, you can put blocks on different parts of the display. Let's say, to make the space inaccessible to the child, on which commercials pop up.
To activate the option, the user must use the basic settings. Next, go to universal access, and then to the item you are looking for. Here you should enable the use of the option and come up with a combination of password characters.
Now the option has become available for launch in absolutely any program. And to call it, you need to click three times on the Home element. After that, the user will be asked to outline the areas closed for pressing on the display, to determine the parameters of the functions of the hardware buttons. It should also be indicated here whether the device should give out reactions to movements. After activating the option, the Home button element ceases to function, and the user does not have the opportunity to run other software. Rebooting the device will not help, guide access will not turn off.
In order to deactivate the option, you also need to click on Home three times and enter the password characters.
In addition to the approaches described above and their application in practice, a number of actions need to be performed. So do not rush to transfer the tablet to children's hands, but work a little more on the settings.
So, if you want the iPad to be used by the child only in your presence, put a password on the device. To this end, proceed to the appropriate settings. At the same time, invent a simple combination of characters - from 4 elements, no more. You can enter only numbers or only letters. But it's better to use both. Then the level of protection will increase significantly.
It will not be superfluous to purchase a case for the device. No falls and bumps in this case will violate the integrity of the gadget and will not damage the internal parts. However, of course, this will not give 100% protection against mechanical influences.
And, most importantly, you should find and install various children's programs on the device, as well as toys and tutorials. There is plenty of such software in the App Store.
Mobile devices have long been a lifesaver for many parents: various educational and developmental applications, watching cartoons on the iPad, reading books and much more have made iOS devices good tools for learning, developing and raising a child. However, with access to useful content, playing with mobile device the baby may unwittingly fall into the "territory of adults." Having foreseen such a situation, the Cupertians carefully added the "Restrictions" function, or, as it is also called, parental control, to the iOS system.
"Restriction" allows you to impose a ban on the use of certain functions and programs, requiring the user to provide a password to continue with the request. Thus, the activated function parental control will prevent a child or any other user from accessing music, movies, TV shows, books, or apps on your iPhone or iPad. Also, using the "Restrictions" function, you can prohibit access to sites containing adult content, or, on the contrary, open access only to specific web pages, prohibiting all others.
The Restrictions feature can prevent you from changing your privacy settings for a number of services and apps, including Location Services, Contacts, Calendars, Photos, Bluetooth Sharing, and can prevent Siri from recognizing swear words.
We go to "Restrictions" and tap on "Enable restrictions", after which you will be prompted to set a password.
Ready. Do not forget the password, and if you still forgot, use the instructions for recovering the restrictions password on iPhone, iPad:
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Like computers with an Internet connection, the iPhone can access a vast amount of information that is forbidden to children or inappropriate in work situations. You can restrict iPhone access to certain types of content.
In particular, you can use parental controls - for example, to prevent a child from buying from applications or watching adult films.
Some apps allow you to buy products directly, bypassing the App Store. This is a popular and easy way for developers to sell additional features of applications (especially low-cost or free ones). Moreover, it is one of the most simple ways taking money from iPhone users.
They let you control which apps get access to iPhone location information, contacts, calendars, reminders, and photos.
Parents who buy a smartphone for their child usually have many doubts: whether the child will start “sticking” into it around the clock instead of lessons and homework, and whether he will find something bad on the network, and whether he will fall into a bad company on social networks and so on... It's good (however, from the point of view of older children - terrible) that smartphones offer a lot of parental control options. There are both built-in restrictions and functional third-party applications that allow you to actually monitor every child's activity - calls, messages, web surfing, launching programs, etc. I'll tell you about everything in detail.
Parental controls in iOS
In iOS, the content filtering capabilities for a child are well developed. Go to the settings, the "Restrictions" item, create a unique password (do not forget it, otherwise you will have to configure the device from scratch). You can then block access to various applications, including the camera and browser.
You can prohibit the installation and removal of programs, in-app purchases in applications. An age limit is available. For example, movies and songs with obscene words will be filtered out, Siri will also ignore "bad" expressions.
The most interesting point is websites. You can prevent the child from opening all pages except those allowed. Or vice versa - open everything, but add a part to the black list.
Another interesting point is the password settings. Here you need to choose how often the password will be requested in the AppStore - always or once every 15 minutes. If you select "always", then a child who does not know the password will not be able to download anything. You can also check whether to require a password when installing free applications.
In the "Privacy" block, you can change the access rights that were given to various offers. For example, to a microphone, photo album, Bluetooth and so on.
Another block is "Allow changes". Here you can allow or forbid updating applications and even changing the volume (suddenly your child is addicted to excessively loud music!). Well, in the "Game center" block, some of the capabilities of this very "Game center" are blocked, including adding friends and multiplayer in games.
Separately, you can set up another useful feature for parents - “Ask to buy”. To do this, you must have an active " Family Sharing». In the settings of this very access, the “Ask to buy” option is turned on. The parent's phone will receive a request from the child who wants to purchase some paid program. The parent will be able to reject or approve it - conveniently.
We must not forget about the "Find iPhone" function, which must be activated on the child's smartphone. You can make sure that the option is enabled in the settings, iCloud section. You will get access to the location of the device through the icloud.com website (or in the application).
According to recent reports, Apple is going to improve parental control features in the near future. It is not yet clear exactly how, but it is about greater safety for children. Maybe there will be extended information about the history of locations. Or the ability to limit the time spent on the device.
Android parental controls
While Apple is planning improvements, Android has not yet received at least a similar parental control. Okay, I won't lie - I showed up. But the Family Link feature is currently only available in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the US. There is no data on its appearance in Russia. But the fact that the help section about Family Link has already been translated into Russian is a little reassuring.
The new option will allow you to control the installation and removal of applications (parents will receive purchase requests), Internet surfing, time spent on the device (daily limits + the phone can be completely blocked during sleep).
In the meantime, Family Link does not work in Russia, I will tell you about other built-in content filtering capabilities in Android. The easiest option: remove all unnecessary applications, do not tell the child the password to the Google account and set a password request for any purchase (Play Store - Settings - Authentication upon purchase). But, alas, this will not apply to free applications, so the setting will only protect you from ruin, nothing more.
Need more drastic measures? Set a password to launch certain applications. the same Play market or browser. There are many utilities for this, the most popular are App Locker, App Lock, Smart AppLock.
In order not to annoy the child with a password request, you can do it more elegantly - hide the program icons. Alas, most applications (Hide it Pro, Hide App) with such functionality require root access. However, there is an alternative - App Hider. "Root" is not needed, it just somehow imports programs to itself (after importing, they must be removed from the system). The idea, frankly, is strange, since the question arises about the safety of using software and updating it. In addition, App Hider does not support all applications. For example, I did not find the ability to hide the browser.
Another option is to use third-party launchers. Many of them allow you to easily hide program icons. For example Apex Launcher , Anole , C Launcher .
But back to the built-in features of Android. If you leave your child access to the Play Store directory, then set parental controls in the settings. We are talking about age restrictions for programs and games, movies, music.
YouTube also has the ability to filter content, for this you need to enable "safe mode" in the program settings.
Although I believe that YouTube baby phone should be removed altogether. It draws in like a black hole, there is little useful, but a ton of videos with reviews of toys, unpacking kinders, stupid jokes, uncivilized speech. And, alas, even the safe mode will not filter all this, which Google itself admits.
The market has an official utility "YouTube for children", but in fact it is the same "safe mode". On the main page there is an advertisement for cartoons, you will climb deep into it - a bunch of "garbage".
As an alternative, you can consider the application, MULT (iOS, Android). There are only popular cartoons and nothing but cartoons. But a monthly subscription is required.
In conclusion of this section, I will add that on Android tablets (although according to reviews - not all), you can create a limited user profile. You need to open the settings - "Users" - "Add user / profile" - "Profile with limited access". Further, it will be possible to specify which applications the child can run, close access to the Play Store, and set age restrictions for content. In his own profile, the child will be able to set up desktops, in games he will have his own settings. A good option to share your tablet.
Multifunctional applications for setting up parental controls on iOS and Android
In the version for Android, the utility allows you to block applications and websites, limit the time you use the device (while still being able to contact your family), inform you about which web pages the child went to, what he searched for, what he did in social networks. You can also track the location of the device and set up safe zones (if the child leaves a certain perimeter, the parent will receive a notification about this).
You can monitor your child from phones or using the web interface.
Users criticize the shortcoming: you can set restrictions for each application individually, but not for a group. For example, so that the child can run any games, but for a certain time.
The program is free, but basic features like location and social media tracking are available only with a subscription.
The iOS version of the Kaspersky Safe Kids app has severely limited features. In particular, you can not block devices - just show the child a notification that he has been too long with the phone.
The application allows you to block access to your smartphone after reaching the maximum time of its use or at a certain time (for example, sleep). In the Android version, again, there are a lot of functions: you can see what utilities the child used and how much, what sites he went to, what he searched on the Internet, whether he downloaded new programs.
The premium version has the most useful features - blocking during long use, full blocking at night, partial blocking at certain times (for example, study), instant blocking by pressing the "pause" button, blocking selected applications, reports on the use of the device by a child. Well, there is also a curious system of rewards - for good behavior, you can add time for your child to use the phone.
Screen Time supports the Apple Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile, so unlike Kaspersky's product, it can actually block access to the device. But there are no extended reports on software usage and web surfing, the system does not give access.
The free version of the program only helps to limit the sites that the child visits. All other functions, as usual, by subscription. But it's probably worth it, because Safe Lagoon allows you to monitor all messages your child receives per monthsenders(currently WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, FB Messenger are supported). You can also monitor activity on social networks (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube), read SMS, monitor calls, surf the web and search. In general, total surveillance!
And the utility also allows you to block access to selected applications, create a schedule for using the phone (no more than so many hours a day, excluding such and such time periods). There is a function to track the position of the device with the ability to create safe zones.
The program uses the Apple Mobile Device Management profile, so it is quite functional on iOS: you can block access to selected applications, set device usage limits, filter web content, block the device remotely with the click of a button.
Three main modes are available: parental allows you to use all applications, child locks selected ones, lock mode blocks everything, including access to the Internet.
On Android, everything is the same, but there are more options (in particular, any application can be blocked, not just the favorites for which Apple has allowed it).
The program is paid, after 14 days of the trial period requires a subscription.
The functions are about the same as those of competitors: filtering Internet traffic, blocking individual applications, a schedule for using a smartphone (for example, you can allow certain games to run during rest hours), gadget usage statistics, location detection, the ability to send messages that cannot be ignored.
Access utility in two versions: limited free (partial web control, application control, basic usage time limit) and premium (location, messages, advanced reports, etc.).
Among the features: complete blocking of specific applications or limiting the time of their use, web surfing filtering, the limit of "hanging" in the phone, device usage schedule, location tracking, safe geo-zones. From the interesting: blocking unwanted calls (it will be allowed to communicate only with selected subscribers), contextual alarm (you can set keywords, if the child receives a message with them, parents will be instantly informed), as well as spying on calls, messages, a list of visited sites used applications, etc.
You can control the baby phone remotely using the web interface.
Funny mark "What's new" in the Play Market for Mobile Fence:
Children are really outraged!
The utility is paid and asks for a subscription. There is a 30 day trial period.
This program differs from the previous ones in that it creates a special interface for the child - and only he has access. Parents themselves decide what programs and games to put on the desktop. Children will not have access to Play Store, in-app purchases, clicks on advertising banners are prohibited.
The premium version of the program has many useful features: the ability to make calls (you can add favorite contacts to the desktop, calls will be allowed only to them or from them), block access to the network, control the time of using the phone, usage schedule, advanced desktop options (several pieces, their wallpapers, folders for programs, widgets), built-in player (where parents can add only selected files).
A similar utility, but with a nicer interface. It also offers to put only selected programs on the desktop, restricts access to Google Play and phone settings, offers to call a limited number of people.
Supports flexible setting of the time of using the phone. For example, games are available only at certain hours, the device cannot be used at all at night, a time limit is set with the phone per day (there are separate settings for weekdays and weekends).
In the near future they promise to add developmental puzzles. If the child successfully copes with them, he will get more time for games.
Kidix is still available in beta, and therefore completely free: test it!
If you are worried that your child is too dependent on the smartphone and devotes a lot of time to games, if you are afraid that he will google something wrong, if you are worried that you will fall under the bad influence, there are many ways to control the use of the handset. From simple restrictions on purchases, installation of programs and web surfing to powerful utilities that allow total surveillance, monitor every action of the child and all his communications, reward "added time" for good behavior, etc.
What level of control do you choose?
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