How to set and use Parental Controls on Disney Plus

Disney Plus is primarily family-friendly and features titles from other brands like Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and more. However, with the launch of Star on Disney Plus, it was loads of adult-themed content that are now available for streaming on the platform. When your kids stream their favorite TV shows and films on Disney Plus, they will have access to these contents. That is why Disney+ launched the Parental Controls feature for Star and the entire Disney Plus platform.

If you have little ones in your house and want a service where your kids can always find high-quality and age-appropriate content, Disney Plus is still right as your alley for your kids’ enjoyment.  Because, until now Disney Plus has made sure all of its content was family-friendly.  In this article, we will show you how to create and set up their Parental Control feature that will give parents control over what their children should ideally watch and the ability to lock their profile with a password or PIN.

PARENTAL CONTROLS ON DISNEY PLUS

Disney Plus helps families to create a unique Kids Profile that appears to be available globally, including areas where Star isn’t launching, such as the United States, allowing everyone to protect their children from watching stuff they’re not old enough to watch.

When you activate this feature on your Disney Plus account, the user interface on both the web and mobile apps is modified for younger children.  The profile only permits Disney Plus media that is rated “G” by the Motion Picture Association of America or TV-7FV by the United States Television Parental Guidelines. In other countries, Disney Plus employs similar ratings in their markets for Kids Profile.

HOW TO CREATE A KID’S PROFILE ON DISNEY PLUS

  • It is necessary to create a separate profile on your Disney Plus app that is solely available to your children. This is to keep them from seeing shows that aren’t appropriate for their age.
  • Go to your main Profile page.
  • Choose Edit Profiles.
  • Select Add Profile.
  • Choose an image.
  • Fill in the profile name.
  • To enable the Kids Profile page, look for it and set it on.
  • Save the file.

HOW TO SET UP CONTENT RATINGS ON DISNEY PLUS KIDS PROFILE

  • Star is a new channel that will be available on Disney Plus in select foreign regions, including the United Kingdom and Canada. It’s slated to be the home of content aimed mostly at adults and not suited for a younger audience. That is why it is important to understand how to configure the content on your Kid’s profile.
  • Navigate to your primary Profile.
  • Choose your child’s profile.
  • Click the Content Rating button.
  • Choose the content rating that you want to assign.

HOW TO CREATE A KID-PROOF EXIT QUESTION ON DISNEY PLUS

  • Go to your Children’s Profile.
  • Navigate to the Parental Controls tab.
  • Enter your PIN.
  • Proceed to the Kid-Proof Exit.
  • Set it to the ON position.
  • Fill in your Exit Question.

Note: It will be the question that your children must answer before they may leave their profile.

HOW TO SET A PIN ON DISNEY PLUS KIDS PROFILE

  • This is a new feature of the Disney Plus app that allows parents to entirely restrict their children’s access to their profiles. Here’s how to do that:
  • Go to your main profile to create a PIN.
  • Choose your child’s profile.
  • Select the Profile PIN option
  • To activate the PIN section, tick the box.
  • Enter your four-digit PIN code.

Conclusion:  Every child still requires proper supervision during their viewing experience on the Disney Plus app or any other streaming app. That is why this feature from Disney Plus is great in providing every parent with the ideal power to protect their child from any harm they may do by seeing information that is completely prohibited for their age.