Netflix Gaining Expanded Parental Controls, More Prominent Ratings

[MacRumors]

Netflix today announced a platform-wide update to introduce expanded parental controls that will give parents more granular access to the television shows and movies their children are watching.

A new PIN parental control for individual movies and TV shows is being added, so parents will be able to block access to specific content if so desired.

. We understand that every family is different and that parents have differing perspectives on what they feel is appropriate to watch at different ages. While we already provide PIN protection for all content at a particular maturity level for Netflix accounts, PIN protection for a specific series or film provides families with an additional tool to make decisions they are comfortable with.

Netflix also plans to begin offering more prominent maturity level ratings for a series or a movie once a Netflix user hits play on a title. Ratings are available before starting a movie or a TV show, but Netflix is expanding their availability to make sure members are "fully aware of the maturity level as they begin watching."

According to Netflix, these parental control changes will be rolling out to Netflix members on all Netflix-compatible devices "in the coming months."

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[mollyc]

Nice. My kids have their own “accounts” on the kids side but there is stuff on the full side I don’t mind them watching and some stuff in the kids side I find really inappropriate. Would be nice to give distinct approval for certain things.

 

[rcooked]

Actually pleased with this level of control. Kids do a good job policing themselves, but this can’t hurt.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Good move by Netflix. As sneaky as many kids are, a lot of parents will welcome the help with apps like Netflix.

 

[OlliFlamme]

good stuff off course. I wouldn’t mind to give an approval in the fashion of the AppStore parental controls.

Kid sends request, i get to read the parental guidance info, and approve by biometric confirmation... is that so far fetched maybe?

 

[joshwenke]

make sure memberrs are "fully aware

Typo

 

[aaronhead14]

There needs to be a feature that allows you to make exceptions to your settings. For example, if I wanted my account to not show any Mature titles minus a few exceptions, such as The King's Speech, which shouldn't have been rated R to begin with. Exceptions would be an amazing festure.

 

[cknibbs]

Parental controls are one of my biggest issues with Netflix. I love that they are getting more attention. Unfortunately even tho the kids have their own profile nothing is stopping them from backing out of the kids profile and going into mine or my wife’s profile. Maybe I’m missing something?

 

[thisisnotmyname]

This makes me want to set a pin and start blocking shows for my partner

 

[MrZippyUK]

Parental controls are one of my biggest issues with Netflix. I love that they are getting more attention. Unfortunately even tho the kids have their own profile nothing is stopping them from backing out of the kids profile and going into mine or my wife’s profile. Maybe I’m missing something?

Exactly.

Profile PIN projection, that’s what we need!

 

[foobarbaz]

Parental controls are one of my biggest issues with Netflix. I love that they are getting more attention. Unfortunately even tho the kids have their own profile nothing is stopping them from backing out of the kids profile and going into mine or my wife’s profile. Maybe I’m missing something?

This change stops them, because the PIN requirement applies to all profiles.

Personally, I have no need for the PIN, since my kids are too young to be that sneaky. But I wish I could get more fine-grained control over what is displayed in the kids profile.

 

[MrZippyUK]

This change stops them, because the PIN requirement applies to all profiles.

Personally, I have no need for the PIN, since my kids are too young to be that sneaky. But I wish I could get more fine-grained control over what is displayed in the kids profile.

Yes but then I would have to put a PIN in for virtually every program I watch, instead of once to access my profile.

 

[darkpaw]

Some good moves by Netflix.

Now, could they maybe put a little tick on a title to show you've already watched it? And have a way of removing titles you started to watch but got bored of and don't want to finish? They sit forever in my "Continue watching..." list, and they're being used in recommendations. How about a way of telling Netflix I never want to watch a certain movie because I've seen it outside of Netflix and didn't like it?

 

[MrZippyUK]

You can remove items from continue watching if you view play list in accounts on their website. Found the useful recently when kids been using my profile.

 

[LincolnsiPod]

They need to fix the maturity ratings which half the time make no sense, and should indicate why it received the rating it did instead of the generic, vague TV-MA.

I just watched an awesome TV-MA show that had no cursing, no racy scenes, the violence was muted and would have been fine for teens and even pre-teens to watch. ????

Then there was a show rated TV-14 (I forgot the name) that had full frontal nudity. ????????? WTF Netflix?

 

[cknibbs]

This change stops them, because the PIN requirement applies to all profiles.

Personally, I have no need for the PIN, since my kids are too young to be that sneaky. But I wish I could get more fine-grained control over what is displayed in the kids profile.

I don’t want to have to set up and block individual titles all the time. Biggest requested feature for me is pins for profiles, an option to launch Netflix on the profile screen instead of the last person who used it, and the ability to add select shows to kids profiles. For example, my kids love planet earth, but it’s unavailable on the kids profiles. I’d love to be able to be in my profile, and have an add to profile button so I could add planet earth to my kids profile. My kids don’t need the ability to browse all of Netflix content, but I do want the ability to curate what they can browse.

There are so many movie posters (scary, overly specialized) I don’t even want them to see let alone shows I want them to watch.