Mobile devices, whether iPhone, iPad or any other type, are within the reach of the little ones at ever younger ages. Their rapid standardization of this type of device brings them very early on to the digital age, accessing all kinds of information. The problem, sometimes, is that much of the content that can be viewed on the Internet is aimed directly at adults, which also happens on television.
So easily, you can block all kinds of adult content such as web pages, movies, and music to prevent little ones from accessing it unsupervised.
Screen Time, the best iOS and iPadOS parental controls
use time It’s a feature we’ve talked about countless times and in fact its features or capabilities have grown with every new version of iOS. So much so that when you start a new iPhone, one of the first steps in terms of configuration is precisely that feature, if you decide to activate it, of course.
For obvious reasons, an adult person will not necessarily require monitoring of the use of his iPhone or iPad, even less in terms of the restriction of certain content. It can help us when it comes to knowing in depth how and especially how much we use our iPhone.
Whatever, use the time
That’s why we want to show you how use correctly use the time in order to block or monitor the access that the youngest of the house make to the content that the Internet makes available to them.
How to activate use the time
The first step, obviously, is to activate this feature so that we can customize its parameters and therefore make the adjustments that interest us. For this we will go to the application settings of the iPhone or iPad, and in one of the first pages we will find use time. If we do not find the option, we remind you that this application has a search bar at the top, in which we can write use the time and we’ll locate it in an instant.
Once inside, the option appears activate the “use time”, where we can get a weekly report with usage time information and set limits for the apps we want to manage. These are the basic features of usage time:
- Weekly reports: Check a weekly rep ort with usage time data.
- Downtime and app usage limits: You will set a time away from the screen and you can also set time limits for the categories you want to manage.
- Restrictions: You can set restrictions based on explicit content settings, purchases, downloads, and most importantly, privacy.
- Time code of use: You can manage usage time directly from the iPhone or use a passcode on the device to authorize certain movements.
Once we activate it, it will ask us if the iPhone is ours or that of our children, in the event that we establish it as an iPhone of our children, we will be able to adjust more parental controls than habit. second act They will ask us for certain configurations:
- Set a usage time limit that we can adjust immediately.
- Set a daily app usage limit. When the daily usage limit is reached, it will ask for a code or authorization to continue using the device or extend the usage time.
- Restrict certain content.
Set limits and block adult content
We’ve already talked on other occasions about how to set temporary usage limits for iOS apps, so today we’ll focus on access restrictions and limits based on content type. that is to say block adult or explicit content on this iPhone or iPad.
The first thing we are going to do is establish restrictions on the installation of applications, in this way we will prevent them from installing certain applications that allow them to access adult or explicit content. For this we will follow the following route:
- Settings
- use time
- restrictions
- iTunes and App Store purchases
- Repeat purchases and in-store downloads: do not allow
- Require Password: Always Require
Now is the time to set limits on the type of content available on that iPhone or iPad, and that too is quite simple:
- Settings
- use time
- restrictions
- Content Restrictions
Here we have different options that we are going to explain to you so that you decide on each of its parameters:
- Content allowed in store:
- Music, podcast and previews: We can choose between only appropriate content, or also the explicit
- Video clips: Enable or disable the display of video clips
- Music Profiles: Set an age-appropriate music profile
- Film : We may select an age limit for the movie selection in the store
- TV programs: We may select an age limit for the movie selection in the store
- Books: We can choose between adapted books, or also with explicit content
- Applications: we can select an age limit for the selection of movies in the store
- App Clips: Enable or Disable App Clips
- Web content:
- Unlimited access: We give complete freedom of access on the web
- Limit Adult Web Access: We can block websites identified as adult content, and even add some to always allow or always block
- Siri:
- Web search content: allow or block
- Explicit language: allow or block
And finally, a series of features within Game Center that we are going to ignore since they will depend on each type of user. In this case, we recommend that you maximize the type of restriction both in the content allowed in the stores and of course in the web content, in this way access will be limited. For more security, we recommend the option limit access to the adult web, manually add the most popular websites to the block.
And that’s how easy it is to limit the access of the little ones at home to content classified as “adult” or explicit on certain web pages.
