Hi,
I just got the new apple TV to replace a really really old one we'd stopped using. I have two kids under 7 and went to set the parental controls; is the only option really to
-hide everything except U rated stuff completely, from everyone
- then when an adult uses it go into settings
- go into restrictions
- enter the passcode
- select disable restrictions
-enter the passcode again to disable the restrictions
- Faff for a bit for it to refresh (this takes 30 seconds to a couple of minutes before the adult stuff actually appears..)
-go find something to watch and watch it or not find anything you fancy
-go into settings
- enter the passcode
- re-enable the restrictions...
That seems insane. The very old and not very good TV its hooked up to has built in netflix and prime where the kids just select the 'kids' profile at the start and never see any adult content, or if they did select an adult profile, they can see it all but it needs a passcode to play.
The apple TV loads up on a front screen full of adult content without the restrictions active, a fair bit of which is pay to watch, meaning more restrictions are needed and must be disabled if I want to actually buy anything, then re-enabled again...
It seems amazingly clunky and un-user friendly, to the point I'm loading on the stand alone netflix/prime apps and hiding the apple TV app at the bottom of the home screen never to be opened again.
I just got the new apple TV to replace a really really old one we'd stopped using. I have two kids under 7 and went to set the parental controls; is the only option really to
-hide everything except U rated stuff completely, from everyone
- then when an adult uses it go into settings
- go into restrictions
- enter the passcode
- select disable restrictions
-enter the passcode again to disable the restrictions
- Faff for a bit for it to refresh (this takes 30 seconds to a couple of minutes before the adult stuff actually appears..)
-go find something to watch and watch it or not find anything you fancy
-go into settings
- enter the passcode
- re-enable the restrictions...
That seems insane. The very old and not very good TV its hooked up to has built in netflix and prime where the kids just select the 'kids' profile at the start and never see any adult content, or if they did select an adult profile, they can see it all but it needs a passcode to play.
The apple TV loads up on a front screen full of adult content without the restrictions active, a fair bit of which is pay to watch, meaning more restrictions are needed and must be disabled if I want to actually buy anything, then re-enabled again...
It seems amazingly clunky and un-user friendly, to the point I'm loading on the stand alone netflix/prime apps and hiding the apple TV app at the bottom of the home screen never to be opened again.
