Your child may come across something you hadn’t counted on, and they certainly need your involved supervision and help with navigating the internet right up until early teens. You cannot set these parental control settings and leave your younger child alone. A child who is determined to push boundaries may lie about their behaviour online to get around your rules, or find other resources to find what they want access to, even by looking over your shoulder or recording your passcode keystrokes! ![]() But positive reinforcement for using their devices responsibly is also essential. Setting good passcodes that they cannot guess or find, is very important. Where there’s a will there’s a way ….these Screentime settings are only as secure as your child’s willingness to comply with the boundaries. Limiting in-app purchases to prevent your child spending up big in games, and changing passwords or downloading apps without your parental passcode is also essential for younger users. Important preferences are “Limiting adult websites” or “Allowed Websites Only” for younger children, or disabling all internet browsers like Safari and Chrome completely if your child is too young to “Google”. You may want to have a very restricted account for a younger child under 12 years of age, but set more moderate settings for a younger teen. If you have already done this for your child’s mobile device you will recognise the interface as it looks very similar. Go through all the tabs and set as required. Then scroll down to “Screentime” Click set a parental control (hard to guess) passcode and set up your preferences for your child, through “downtime” “app limits” “Always Allowed” and most importantly “Content and Privacy”. Click on “System Preferences” via the preferences icon in the lower dock or go to the “apple” logo top left of any screen. After everything has loaded and you have clicked through all the set up. Be sure to enter your child’s family sharing Apple I.D as part of the set up. You can set up “Screentime” when first logging into the new account, or skip the set up when you log in to your child’s account for the first time and set it up following the instructions below. Exit out and then log out of your main admin account and re-login with the new child’s account. Create a new password for your child’s login that they can remember to use when they/you login (not too simple!). ![]() Click on “Users & Groups” (see pic above) and then click the lock lower left, (see pic below) enter your password and click the + sign lower left of window to add a new “Standard” login.Ĥ. Under the main adult administrative login go to “System Preferences” via the “System Preferences” icon in the dock or via the apple logo menu top left of the screen and then scroll down to “System Preferences”ģ.
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