Screen Time has new features to help parents manage their children’s Apple devices, as well as refinements to existing controls. How to use the parental controls on iOS 27. Big Tech Apple How to use the parental controls on iOS 27 Extra layers of protection keep Apple devices age-appropriate for your kids.
One that you might have missed is an overhaul of parental controls. For these changes, Apple worked alongside the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to bring new safety tools. They also created a Building Healthy Digital Habits companion guide to aid parents in creating healthy digital habits for their kids, balancing screen usage with essentials like sleep, exercise, schoolwork and family time.
Among the new parental control features introduced are Time Allowances, Ask to Browse, Ask to Add Contacts, a Pause Device feature and expanded Communication Safety. The setup process has also been simplified, offering age-appropriate app recommendations for new child accounts, rather than dumping every default app onto a kid’s home screen. These features don’t activate automatically when a device updates.
Every device in a Family Sharing group (whether it’s an iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch or Apple TV) needs to be running iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, or tvOS 27 before the new Screen Time system will function.
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