Click on the settings on your phone and go to “Screen time”
If your family is on the same icloud account, you will find your family members listed here. (I’ve deleted my family members name for security reasons).
This is super important – use a number your kids won’t guess and record it in a safe place so you don’t forget it.
First click on “Downtime”
This sets the time that you want the majority of your chid’s apps to shut down. “Start” is at the end of the night and “end” is the time in the morning they can turn on.
Next click “App limits”
This feature is great if you would like to limit the amount of gaming or social media time they can have. We choose to customize games. Click on “custom” and then “custom” on the next screen.
Click on “customize days”
Apple will not allow you to put 0 min for their time limit, you must put at least 1 min. We have gaming set at 1 min. on during the week and 2 hours on the weekend.
Click on “Always Allowed”
This one you will want to customize for each child. You can decide if you want to always allow texting and all other apps. We left school, church, and work apps on “always allowed”.
We’re almost done!! Click on “Content & Privacy Restrictions”
Click on “iTunes & App Store Purchases”
For us, this is one of the most important pieces. We do not allow our kids to install apps on their own. So we put “Don’t allow” on App installation. When our kids want to add an app, they come to us and talk about it and we add it manually on their phone.
Click on “Allowed Apps”. This section is for apps that come with the system.
We turn off our kids “Safari” app and install a safe browser instead. We use the K9 browser.
Click on “Content Restrictions”
This is another important area because you can filter their music, movies, TV shows, books, apps, and web content.
Last step!! At the bottom of content restrictions is “screen recording”. Click “don’t allow”. This is really important if your child has a newer iphone because they can record you putting in your parental passcode. I know, tricky right?? These kids should work for NASA, they’re so smart!!

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