{"id":187,"date":"2015-03-21T13:37:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firstnrc.org\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2021-12-03T20:40:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:40:33","slug":"five-minute-fix-setting-up-parental-controls-on-android","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/?page_id=187","title":{"rendered":"Five-minute fix: Setting up parental controls on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Lee Munson<\/p>\n<p>Parents of Android fans have the ability to set up parental controls on their child&#8217;s device, and the recent release of Android 4.3 has enhanced the\u00a0<a title=\"Android Central: How to use Android 4.3s restricted profile feature\" href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/how-use-android-43-s-restricted-profile-feature\">restricted profiles<\/a> feature that was introduced with version 4.2 of the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>(Note, this is currently only available on Android tablets).<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong>Tap <strong>Settings<\/strong> and select <strong>Users<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong>Tap <strong>Add user or profile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. <\/strong>Tap to add a <strong>Restricted profile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At this point you will be prompted to set up a lock using a PIN, password or a pattern if you haven&#8217;t already done so. Choose your PIN or password carefully and make it <a title=\"Naked Security - How to choose a strong password\" href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2010\/02\/03\/choose-strong-password\/\">difficult to break<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/firstnrc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/add-restricted-profile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" class=\" wp-image-189 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/firstnrc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/add-restricted-profile-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"add-restricted-profile\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/add-restricted-profile-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/add-restricted-profile.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. <\/strong>All the installed apps on the device will then be displayed. Each of these can be toggled on or off as you deem appropriate for the child you have set the account up for. However, not all apps can be disabled this way as some do not support restricted profiles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firstnrc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toggle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" class=\" wp-image-188 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/firstnrc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toggle-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"toggle\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toggle-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/toggle.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. <\/strong>Choose <strong>Settings<\/strong>. From here you can choose to disable location services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. <\/strong>To start using the restricted account go to <strong>Settings<\/strong>, choose the newly created account and it will be set up for you by Android. From then on every time you lock the screen you will be given an option to use the restricted account you created.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lee Munson Parents of Android fans have the ability to set up parental controls on their child&#8217;s device, and the recent release of Android 4.3 has enhanced the\u00a0restricted profiles feature that was introduced with version 4.2 of the operating system. (Note, this is currently only available on Android tablets). 1. Tap Settings and select [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":819,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4811,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/4811"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstnrc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}