IOS 26 brings parents more control over the children’s screen

As soon of your parents, I worry about how people online will communicate with my child after they have a phone or tablet. Good news for parents who are now struggling with this: When Apple is launching iOS 26 in Coming for weeksIt brings more parental control Iphones.

Parents can already control how much Screenshot their children have, Manage your child’s app store purchase And more. Some new controls will detect and blur nude in certain applications, and your child will need to request access to interaction with unknown numbers.

Here are some of the children’s security features IOS 26 could bring you an iPhone soon. My child is still not here, so I couldn’t test these features, but I’ll sign up later.

Just remember, Apple is still beta testing IOS 26. This means that the update could be a bug for you, and the life of your device’s battery may affect the best to keep these problems from your primary device. If you want to try the beta version, I recommend that you download it on the secondary device.

It is also possible for Apple to customize these controls and other update functions, before the company issues the final version of IOS this fall.

Note that many of these security features are automatically enabled in iOS 26 as long as they are attached to the phone number and an Apple account of the minor.

Approve who can and cannot contact your child

You can already block unknown numbers in messages, and IOS 26 will allow parents to approve which numbers can encourage or call their child. When your child receives a message or call from an unknown number, you will need to send a request to your parents to allow them to receive a message or call.

So, if your child’s friend wants to call, you will need to approve their number. But if your 12-year-old is strange, adult messages, you can block that sender.

This feature is available on third party applications, potentially releasing parents to approve who their children’s chats, follows and become friends like instagram, but developers of these applications must first adop the Apple box first.

Blur nudity in some applications

Another child safety function IOS 26 includes that nudity detected during FaceTima calls and in any shared albums in photos on your child iPhone.

This is similar in the feature presented iOS 17 called Sensitive content warnings. With that feature, you can choose to blast the discovered nudity in the content you sent to you in applications such as messages. The new function automatically allows your child’s account.

App Store changes

Part of the security changes in IOS include updated age ratings for applications in Apple’s App Store, including the indications if the application contains content, user exchange, sending messages, or content control.

The App Store also will also show your kids with scores above their content limitations in today’s App Store, games or applications, as well as in editorial stories. And if the app above the range of your child’s content limit, you can execute for that application through Request to purchase the function.

Experiences of appropriate and foreseeable age

If you approve your child to download third-party app on their device, you can select and share their age (eg 13-17) with the application developer. In this way, your child can see content and appropriate features within the application without discovering their exact date of birth or may circumvent the age restrictions with the entry of an elder date of birth.

More about iOS 26, here they are My first impressions about beta versionHow to enable Screening calls into beta and everything New features Apple said it would bring you your device later this year. You can also check our IOS 26 Cheat Sheet.