Prepare an iPhone for a child

Screen Time reports how you use your iPhone and provides the limits, downtime and content restrictions used for parental controls.

Settings > Screen Time

This is the full parental control panel: app installation, purchases, explicit content, web filtering, and whether privacy settings can be changed at all.

Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions

Family Sharing lets up to six people share an iCloud storage plan, subscriptions and purchases, and gives a parent the controls needed for a child account.

Settings > Apple Account > Family Sharing

Guided Access locks the iPhone into a single app and can disable parts of the screen, the hardware buttons, and set a time limit.

Settings > Accessibility > Guided Access

Your iPhone measures headphone volume over time, warns you when exposure is unsafe, and can cap the maximum level.

Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Headphone Safety

Images that may contain nudity are blurred on a child's device with an age appropriate warning, and the detection runs entirely on the phone.

Settings > Screen Time > Communication Safety

Images and video that may contain nudity are blurred before display, with the detection running entirely on your iPhone.

Settings > Privacy & Security > Sensitive Content Warning