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Setting iPhone Parental Controls – Easy as 1,2,3

By Kira Lewis 1 Comment

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Do you want to keep your kids safe when they are using their iPhone (or yours)? Here is how to set iPhone parental controls. It's easy and only take a few minutes.

Avoid stories like the one I’m about to share, by setting iPhone parental controls.

Recently, a friend of mine told me over coffee, “My son spent $500 on in-app purchases on the latest game he downloaded!”

It honestly never occurred to her that this was even a possibility.  And, the child, well he thought it was pretend money. He had NO idea that he was actually causing real charges to be made to his parent’s credit card.

Unfortunately, this was not the first time I’ve heard this story.  So, if your child has done something like this or maybe downloaded an app you later discovered was totally inappropriate or perhaps even your toddler got on a website that was definitely not meant for them – You are NOT alone.

This new technology based world that we’re raising our kids in is challenging for all of us. Even the most savvy parents are struggling to navigate it’s complexity. It is tempting to want to tune it out amidst all the other information we’re having to process as parents. BUT this is one of the most important areas for us to learn and stay on top of, because it can be one of the most dangerous for our children if we just let them have free reign.

Here’s the best advice for any parent today –  take it one step at a time.  So, for example, it’s actually pretty easy to keep your kids from making in-app purchases or from downloading apps without your approval. In just a few minutes, you can set iPhone parental controls and here’s how.

Do you want to keep your kids safe when they are using their iPhone (or yours)? Here is how to set iPhone parental controls. It's easy and only take a few minutes.

Setting iPhone Parental Controls – It’s Easy!

This is the easiest way to manage what your kids can access on their iPhone (or in the case of younger kids, on yours).

Go to Settings: 

iPhone Parental Controls

 

Select “GENERAL”:

iPhone Parental Controls

 

Click “RESTRICTIONS” 

iPhone Parental Controls

 

Create a Passcode: 

A speaker on this topic once suggested that you pick a swear word that corresponds to the numbers on the phone, because you’re not likely to forget it and your kids are not likely to guess it. BUT you know, whatever works for you.

iPhone Parental Controls

 

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Restrictions: 

Once you get into the restrictions, here is where you get to decide the limits you want to place on your child’s phone. For a child just receiving a phone, my suggestion is the more the better (or for a child playing on your phone – you can disable them after the child is done with it).

You have control over whether or not your child can access safari for search, download music with explicit lyrics, podcasts, apps and YES you can even keep them from making in-app purchases. Oh, and you can also restrict social media like Facebook here as well. (Remember the earliest suggested age for access to social media is 13!)

iPhone Parental Controls

 

Scroll Down a bit further and you’ll see you have additional options as well. In the “ALLOWED CONTENT”,  you can set ratings for the content they access on everything from TV shows (if they stream on their device) to the website they can access. For little kids you can restrict it to on the set websites that you add in this area.

iPhone Parental Controls

Okay, while this definitely helps limit the trouble they can get into, it doesn’t completely cover YouTube which is HUGE for kids today. For more information on this topic, check out our post on YouTube Parental Controls.

Additionally, while these iPhone parental controls manage what your kids access on an iPhone, it doesn’t monitor their texts or emails. Parents can choose to do this manually, and NO it isn’t spying, it’s parenting!

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Taking Parental Controls a Step Further

You can also use a number of inexpensive products that have come on the market in recents years. They are easy for parents to use and can do everything from managing online access, shutting down apps after a specified amount of time or even turning a device off for certain hours (like bedtime). We’ve written about a couple:

Parental Controls – Managing Kids Technology

Managing Online Risk – Software to Keep Kids Safe

Looking for other resources to help you parent in today’s technology driven world? Start with these posts!

Family Technology Rules; Take Control of Tech Before Tech Takes Over Your Family

Do you feel like you're losing your family to technology? Then it's about time to set some family technology rules. You can do it and here's how to get started. Free Family Tech Rules Printable Included.

What Every Parent Needs to Know About Social Media for Kids

Why My Kid Doesn't Have Social Media

 

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: online safety, Parental Controls, Technology for Parents

About Kira Lewis

Kira Lewis is a mom to a strong and sassy 8 year old girl and a funny, soccer playing teen boy.  Her career has included everything from corporate ladder climbing to teaching yoga. She's settled for now on free-lance writing and blogging where she covers topics like motherhood, parenting, technology, Florida travel and raising tweens and teens.Keep up with her parental musings by subscribing to sunshine and hurricane's weekly newsletter HERE.

You can also find her on social media:

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