You desire to practice what'south best for your family. So do we.

iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple tree Television receiver. They're some of the most powerful tools ever made for learning, exploring, and staying in touch on. Parents love them. Kids honey them. And nosotros're continually designing new features to help brand sure kids apply them in the ways you desire.

Tools that let parents know, and feel good about, what kids are doing.

You know your kids meliorate than anyone. That's why we've put a lot of thought into helping parents choose how — and how oft — their kids tin can use their devices.

Keep track of your
family unit's app usage.

Screen Time gives you a better agreement of the time y'all and your kids spend using apps, visiting websites, and on your devices overall. Y'all tin can get weekly reports or see specific app usage, notifications, and device pickups.

Prepare limits and
exceptions.

Screen Time besides lets yous ready the amount of time y'all and your kids tin can spend each day on specific apps and websites. You can create exceptions for specific apps, similar Letters or didactics apps, and kids tin can always asking more time for you to approve.

Accept fourth dimension away.

With downtime, y'all can set a specific fourth dimension, like bedtime, when apps and notifications are blocked. You tin can choose which apps are accessible or off limits.

The App Shop. A safety place for kids.

The Made for Kids section on the App Shop is carefully curated to be a smashing space for children. And we review every app to make sure it does what it says information technology does. In Content Restrictions, you can as well tap an age range and, merely like that, your kids tin buy or download only apps advisable for them — including curated recommendations.

Learn more about the App Store

Cull which apps they can use.

You tin prevent your kids from installing new apps, like social media or photograph sharing — or fifty-fifty plough off the Safari spider web browser. Enable Ask to Purchase, and yous can approve or turn down their app purchases and downloads correct from your device.

Learn how to plough on Ask to Buy

Easily create app limits.

With Combined Limits, you can combine private apps and websites, and even whole categories, into a single, easy-to-manage limit. Gear up a limit for a group of apps and websites, like games or your kids' favorite streaming apps.

Determine who can talk to them.

Communication Limits let you choose who your children can communicate with throughout the solar day and during downtime, so y'all can make certain they're always reachable.

Go on them safe on the internet.

You can set up your kids' devices to limit adult content or open up merely websites that you select. You tin can besides install special web browsers that are designed to display child-friendly content and nothing else.

Give one more minute.

Requite your kids an extra minute to wrap up what they're doing. They'll go a notification when they've reached their time limit, and so they can quickly wrap up a conversation, salve a file, or close a game session before their fourth dimension runs out.

Make sure what they come across is appropriate.

With a few taps y'all can go on your kids from accessing movies, TV shows, music, music videos, apps, books, or podcasts that contain things you don't want them to see or hear.

Manage in‑app purchases.

Many apps, even complimentary apps, let (or encourage) purchases inside the app itself. A setting in Restrictions lets y'all block all in‑app purchases automatically.

  • Learn more most parental controls on iOS
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Help protect kids from what they run across and transport.

With the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, you can set kids' devices to evidence warnings when receiving or sending images containing nudity. The image is blurred, and your child gets an alert along with helpful resources and the option to message someone they trust for help. End-to-finish encryption is maintained and Apple tree doesn't get access to your letters.

Detect your missing device with Find My.

The Find My app combines Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into a single, easy-to-use app on Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Discover My tin can help you locate a family member's missing iPhone, Mac, iPad, AirTag, AirPods, or Apple Watch — even if information technology's offline and sleeping.

Map its location.

The Observe My app allows offline, Wi-Fi–enabled devices to send out Bluetooth signals that can be detected by other Apple devices in use nearby. They can then relay the detected location of your missing device to iCloud and then you tin locate it in the app.

Share locations with friends and family.

Easily locate friends and family members to stay coordinated and proceed kids safe. Using the People tab, you can invite friends to share a location or automatically receive location-based alerts — like when your child leaves school. Parents tin can even manage how their kids share locations.

It'southward all anonymous.

The process is anonymous and encrypted finish-to-terminate so no one, including Apple, knows the identity of any reporting device. And because the reporting happens silently using tiny bits of information that piggyback on existing network traffic, at that place's no demand to worry well-nigh your battery life, your data usage, or your privacy.

  • Acquire more about sharing locations in Find My

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Share apps, movies, music, and more.

Family Sharing lets you share the things you love with the people you love, so you lot don't all have to buy the same stuff over and over. It's simple to set upward and gives anybody in your family access to shared iCloud and iCloud+ storage.

Be one big happy, healthy family.

Nosotros're ever working on new ways for our products to be fifty-fifty more helpful. Here are some features everyone in your family can use to stay prophylactic and exist well.

Brand teen driving safer.

No i should be distracted by the phone while driving. With the Driving Focus, iPhone won't interrupt you with messages, calls, or notifications until you accomplish your destination. In an emergency, callers tin override it and go through.

Learn how to gear up a Driving Focus

Keep everyone fit.

Apple Spotter offers a fun fashion for everyone to get fit and stay fit: Introduce a fiddling daily competition to see who can close their Stand, Motility, and Practice rings beginning. And the winner is . . . your whole family unit.

Turn downwardly the blue light at night.

Inquiry has shown that exposure to bluish light before bedtime can make information technology harder to autumn asleep. Night Shift automatically changes the display to a warmer hue when the sun goes down.

Better sleep for amend health.

Prepare up iPhone or iPad to tell yous and your kids when information technology's bedtime and wake you with customized alarms — which might relieve a few "time to get up" visits to their bedrooms. And you can all track your slumber over time with daily, weekly, and monthly summaries.

Reduce distractions overall.

Do Not Disturb eliminates distractions from calls and notifications for a specified period of fourth dimension. It'southward a great manner to keep your kids from getting interrupted when they're sleeping or doing homework. If y'all demand to get through in an emergency, you can.

Larn how to set up Do Not Disturb

Your medical info, there when it'due south needed.

On iPhone and Apple Scout, emergency personnel can rapidly admission a Medical ID with of import information like allergies, blood type, emergency contacts, and more.

Larn how to ready a Medical ID

Emergency SOS.

If yous need help, ask Siri to call 911 or your emergency contact. You can too enable your iPhone and Apple Lookout man to automatically dial emergency services with a press or a few taps.

Learn how to set upwardly Emergency SOS

Reach kids in an emergency.

Even if your children don't have their iPhone at school, you tin can still reach them in an emergency if they're wearing an Apple Watch with cellular.

Technology should be for everyone.

We design products for everybody, including people with disabilities. In fact, every device nosotros make offers a broad range of innovative tools that assistance people of all abilities create, explore, stay in shape, and communicate.

Learn more virtually Apple and Accessibility

Help first responders locate you.

Go help when you need it most. When yous telephone call 911 with your iPhone, you lot can automatically and securely share your location with commencement responders.

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Your privacy comes offset.

Then much personal information lives on your family's devices. That'due south why we've designed our hardware and software to keep this information private. Bear on ID and Confront ID, for instance, are ii of the most advanced security technologies on personal devices. We've also made information technology easy for parents to set privacy controls on their kids' devices.

Learn more about Apple and Privacy

Apple helps in
the classroom, likewise.

Our commitment to families doesn't terminate at your front door. Apple devices expand what's possible in the classroom, and apps like Classroom and Schoolwork assistance teachers keep students on rails. Educators have access to many of the same controls yous do. And Apple doesn't use your kids' data to create a contour or market to them.

Learn more well-nigh Apple and Education