WWDC | Apple announces new parental controls for controlling and monitoring children's app, entertainment, and social media use
Apple has detailed upcoming parental controls for its products, allowing parents to monitor and control device use, while protecting children from naughty and dangerous messaging.
Any young person can be added to the new Child Account, which enables features such as age and site access restrictions, app access and usage, website whitelisting, contact whitelisting, and message filtering.
Age-appropriate apps are recommended, but parents have ultimate say over what can be added to a child's Apple device. Parents can remotely track the amount of time each app has been used, while limiting total use time per day. Entertainment, gaming, and social media use can be tracked and limited, too. Recommendations for total use times are provided by Apple, developed with third-party organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Children can ask for authorization of new apps from their devices, and each request is reviewed by parents prior to authorization. The same whitelisting of apps prior to access also applies to websites and contacts, helping protect them from dangerous websites, child traffickers, and other unknown people.
To further protect children from criminals and themselves, all messages and FaceTime communications can be automatically filtered for nudity, gore, and other undesirable graphics.
Apple developers gain access to these new features through a variety of safety APIs that can be utilized within apps.
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