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Parental control and digital wellbeing software

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Over 4 million parents trust Qustodio’s parental control tools to keep their kids’ screen time safe and balanced on every device.

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We’re continually designing new features and parental controls to help make sure children use their devices in the ways their parents want them to.

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Learn how Bark’s parental controls can help you protect your kids online and in real life with monitoring, screen time controls, and more.

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With Screen Time, you can turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions to manage content, apps, and settings on your child's device. You can also restrict explicit content, purchases and downloads, and changes to privacy settings.

Apple's parental controls are important tools that allow parents to choose how - and how often - their children can use their devices. Parental controls are built right into each iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

When you set up Screen Time on your child's device, you can set age-related restrictions for content, purchases and downloads, and privacy settings. If you chose to set up later, you can turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time.

If you turn off Content & Privacy Restrictions, any parental controls that you turned on are paused until you turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions again.

After you turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions, you can set up specific parental controls.

To make sure that your parental control settings sync across the devices in your Family Group, update all of those devices to the latest software version before turning on parental controls or changing your parental controls settings.

You can prevent your child from being able to install or delete apps, make in-app purchases in apps installed from the App Store, and more.

1. Go to Settings, then tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.

3. Tap iTunes & App Store Purchases (or App Installations & Purchases).

4. Choose a setting and set to Don't Allow.

You can also change your password settings for additional purchases from iTunes, App Store, Book Store, or Apple TV app. Under Require Password, choose Always Require or Don't Require.
Learn more about managing app installation preferences for your child's iPhone in the EU
You can restrict the use of built-in apps or features. If you turn off an app or feature, the app or feature won't be deleted, it's just temporarily hidden from your Home Screen. For example, if you turn off Mail, the Mail app won't appear on your Home Screen until you turn it back on.

1. Go to Settings, then tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions.

3. Enter your Screen Time passcode.

4. Tap Allowed Apps.

5. Select the apps that you want 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.

1. Go to Settings, then 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 can restrict:

Music, Podcasts, News, Fitness: 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 TV shows with specific ratings

Books: Prevent content with specific ratings

Apps: Prevent apps with specific ratings (or Unrated apps in the EU)

App Clips: Prevent app clips with specific ratings

Prevent 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 can also add specific websites to an approved or blocked list, or you can limit access to only approved websites.

1. Go to Settings, then tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions and enter your Screen Time passcode.

3. Tap Content Restrictions, then tap Web Content.

4. Choose Unrestricted Access, Limit Adult Websites, or Allowed Websites.

Depending on the access you allow, you might need to add information, like the website that you want to restrict.

If your child is under 13*, each time your child updates a device signed in with their Apple ID to iOS 17 or later, iPadOS 17 or later, watchOS 10 or later, or macOS Sonoma or later for the first time, Web Content Restrictions is reset to Limit Adult Websites for all their devices.

You can restrict these Siri features:

These restrictions apply only to games that use Game Center features.

1. Go to Settings, then tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.

3. Scroll down to Game Center, then choose your settings.

Multiplayer Games: Prevent the ability to play multiplayer games with everyone, allow with friends only, or allow with anyone

Adding Friends: Prevent the ability to add friends to Game Center

Connect with Friends: Prevent the ability to share a Game Center friend list with third-party games

Screen Recording: Prevent the ability to capture the screen and sound

Nearby Multiplayer: Prevent the ability to enable the nearby setting

Private Messaging: Prevent the ability to voice chat or send or receive custom messages with game and friend invitations

Profile Privacy Changes: Prevent the ability to change profile privacy settings

Avatar & Nickname Changes: Prevent the ability to change Game Center avatars and nicknames

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 allow a social-networking app to request access to use the camera, which allows you to take and upload pictures. For some settings, you can allow or restrict changes only for your device.

To allow changes to privacy settings:

Here are the things you can restrict:

Location Services: Lock the settings to allow apps and websites to use 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 access to your photos

Share My Location: Lock the settings for location sharing in Messages and Find My

Bluetooth sharing: Prevent devices and apps from sharing data through Bluetooth

Microphone: Prevent apps from requesting access to your microphone

Speech Recognition: Prevent apps from accessing Speech Recognition or Dictation

Apple Advertising: Prevent changes to advertising settings

Allow Apps to Request to Track: Prevent tracking activity by apps that you've denied access to

Media & Apple Music: Prevent apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

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

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

Passcode & Face ID: Prevent changes to passcode, Touch ID, and Face ID

Account: Prevent account changes in Accounts & Passwords

Cellular Data: Prevent changes to cellular data settings

Reduce Loud Sounds: Prevent changes to volume settings for safe listening

Driving Focus: Prevent changes to the Driving Focus

TV Provider: Prevent changes to TV provider settings

Background App Activities: Prevent changes to whether or not apps run in the background

Some Screen Time features are turned on by default for children under 13* in a Family Sharing group.
Learn about Communication Safety on your child's iPhone or iPad Learn about Screen Distance

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Use parental controls on your child's iPhone and iPad - Apple Support

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

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Common Sense Media: Age-Based Media Reviews for Families

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Common Sense Media is the leading source of entertainment and technology recommendations for families. Parents trust our expert reviews and objective advice.

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Media and Children Overview

Today's children are spending an average of seven hours a day on entertainment media, including televisions, computers, phones and other electronic devices. Meanwhile, advertising aimed at children is no longer confined to TV commercials and product placement in movies. Today, children are exposed to messages from social media influencers, hidden ads in video games, data collection across many platforms, virtual reality encounters with strangers in games and targeted social media advertisements that are intended to make children take action. It's no wonder that parents come to pediatricians with so many questions. It also underscores the importance of the need for continued research on the impact of media on children's health and useful resources that help improve a pediatrician's ability to counsel families on the healthy use of media in all forms.

Once such resource is the Family Media Plan . Designed to help families make wise media choices, the AAP recommends that parents and caregivers develop a plan that takes into account the health, education and entertainment needs of each individual child as well as the whole family; and then follow the family media plan together, revising it when necessary.

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Information to help pediatricians understand and communicate about the impact media has in our children's lives, while offering tips on managing time spent with various media.

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning

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Artificial intelligence is a subdiscipline of computer science that aims to produce programs that simulate human intelligence.

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Good Digital Parenting empowers parents and caregivers to confidently navigate the online world with their kids.

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The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade. Banding together helps decrease the pressure to have a phone at an early age. Ten years old is the average age children get their first smartphone. You can change this!

More than 50,000 parents have said yes to waiting on the smartphone for their families. This is making a tremendous difference in communities across the country!

Smartphones are distracting and potentially dangerous for children yet are widespread in elementary and middle school because of unrealistic social pressure and expectations to have one.

These devices are quickly changing childhood for children. Playing outdoors, spending time with friends, reading books and hanging out with family is happening a lot less to make room for hours of snap chatting, instagramming, and catching up on YouTube.

Parents feel powerless in this uphill battle and need community support to help delay the ever-evolving presence of the smartphone in the classroom, social arena and family dinner table. Link arms with other parents to wait until at least eighth grade for a smartphone!

The Wait Until 8th pledge encourages parents to delay the smartphone. If you need to get in touch before 8th grade, we have some great basic phones and watches featured here. If you would like your child to have a basic phone or watch to call and text only, you still can sign the pledge! Theses basic options avoid many of the distractions and dangers of the smartphone.

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The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade.

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With Family Link, you decide what's best for your family. Easy to use tools allow you to understand how your child is spending time on their device, share location, manage privacy settings, and more.*

Establish digital ground rules

Set screen time limits

Find the screen time that works best for your child. Family Link lets you set downtime for their device and time limits for apps, so you can help your child find a healthy balance.

Guide them to age-appropriate content

Approve or block apps your child wants to download. Family Link also allows you to choose the right YouTube experience for your child: a supervised experience on YouTube, or YouTube Kids.

Establish digital ground rules

Set screen time limits

Find the screen time that works best for your child. Family Link lets you set downtime for their device and time limits for apps, so you can help your child find a healthy balance.

Guide them to age-appropriate content

Approve or block apps your child wants to download. Family Link also allows you to choose the right YouTube experience for your child: a supervised experience on YouTube, or YouTube Kids.

Manage and secure your child's account

Protect their privacy

Permissions management in Family Link allow you to make meaningful choices about your child's data. You can view and manage permissions for websites and extensions accessed through Chrome as well as apps downloaded on your child's device.

Secure their account

Family Link gives you access to manage your child's account and data settings. As a parent, you can help change or reset your child's password if they forget it, edit their personal information or even delete their account if you feel necessary.

Manage and secure your child's account

Protect their privacy

Permissions management in Family Link allow you to make meaningful choices about your child's data. You can view and manage permissions for websites and extensions accessed through Chrome as well as apps downloaded on your child's device.

Secure their account

Family Link gives you access to manage your child's account and data settings. As a parent, you can help change or reset your child's password if they forget it, edit their personal information or even delete their account if you feel necessary.

Stay connected on the go

See where they are

It's helpful to be able to find your family when they're on the go. With Family Link, you can locate your children on one map, as long as they're carrying their device.**

Get notifications and alerts

Family Link delivers critical notifications including when your child arrives or leaves a certain location. You can also ring devices and view the device's remaining battery life.

Stay connected on the go

See where they are

It's helpful to be able to find your family when they're on the go. With Family Link, you can locate your children on one map, as long as they're carrying their device.**

Get notifications and alerts

Family Link delivers critical notifications including when your child arrives or leaves a certain location. You can also ring devices and view the device's remaining battery life.

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Family Link from Google - Family Safety & Parental Control Tools

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With Family Link, you decide what's best for your family. Easy to use tools allow you to understand how your child is spending time on their device, share location, manage privacy settings, and more.* Find the screen time that works best for your child.

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Parental Control & Monitoring App: Kids Phone Tracking | Verizon Family

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Smart family offers Location Tracking and Check-in options. Pause your child’s internet access and manage calls and text. Block certain sites with content filters. Verizon Smart Family offers tools for the connected family.

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Screen Time Management App for Kids | Customize Device Usage with OurPact

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As AI enters classrooms, one priority rises above all others: AI safety. Everyone, from district leaders to teachers and families, is looking for tools that support learning while protecting students at every step.

MagicSchool was built with responsible AI in mind. We created the AI Safety Loop, a structured process that keeps pace with evolving technology and classroom needs. Rather than a one-time review, the Safety Loop is a continuous cycle:

Framing prompts responsibly before they reach a model

Auditing outputs to check for accuracy, safety, and compliance

Refining safeguards as models change and usage patterns shift

Our approach to AI safety

Our approach ensures that artificial intelligence safety improves over time. As MagicSchool has grown, we've progressed from manual reviews to automated, evaluator-driven checks with realistic test cases and regular monitoring. Educators remain in the loop, bringing classroom context and professional judgment to every stage.

For districts, the benefits are clear. MagicSchool's platform reduces bias, blocks harmful or distracting requests, and helps keep students on task.

For districts & teachers, it provides peace of mind and high-quality tools they can trust to save time and enhance instruction.

For students, it creates a structured environment where they can explore digital citizenship and build fluency with the technology that will shape their future.

Learn more about our framework and see side-by-side comparisons in our whitepaper, The AI Safety Loop for Students.
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MagicSchool's AI Safety Loop for Students helps school districts deploy responsible AI, keeping students safe, reducing bias, and giving teachers tools they can trust.

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Net Nanny: Parental Control Software & Website Blocker

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The Best Parental Control to Keep Your Kids and Family Safe Online With Net Nanny®, you can monitor your family's digital habits and protect them from harmful content. Make managing screen time a breeze with the power to change limits at your fingertips.