If your family is like my family then you will know by now that over the age of one – your kids can work an iphone. It seems the slider and pin number access is genetically built in to humans as its the easiest thing in the world for them. I didn’t even need to show them… how to use the slider that is.
My young ones spend their time watching Peppa pig and Charlie and Lola on YouTube which is fine when I’m around – but when I’m not I won’t let them use it, as youtube.com can bring up any kind of search result for perfectly innocent queries for puppies and pussies. As an ipad 2 is on the way and kids grow older then I need to be comfortable with what they have access to.
In comes Parental Controls.
Firstly I didn’t realise the iphone and ipad comes with its own parental control system built in. Its called “restrictions”, under the settings menu. Using this you can assign blocks to certain apps and levels of protection based on classification. For example prevent movies over 12 from playing or prevent any appstore purchase. Accessing any blocked app requires another PIN to be entered.
It doesn’t directly tackle the YouTube problem however and this is where Mobicip comes in. Mobicip is a parental control browser that comes with an annual subscription that prevents your kids from accessing anything they shouldn’t. More importantly they have an iphone and ipad app that can override YouTube and prevent the wrong kind of content from playing. The basic entry level app is £4.99 with an upsell to an annual subscription model. Visit this link full details on setting up parental controls written by the founder of mobicip.
