Setting up iPad for young children
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As the thread title says, after some good advice from these forums about a tablet for a 7 year old who uses one at school I've got our children an Apple iPad.
I'm aware there are firewalls and ways you can link it onto our adult phones/macbooks etc so some help would be greatly appreciated.
Things I would like to put on it apart from the school stuff;
Spotify?
YouTube (although very wary of this)?
Some form of drawing/art app?
Being able to limit the time and know what they are doing is always good as well as blocking anything inappropriate. I appreciate it's a minefield!
I'm aware there are firewalls and ways you can link it onto our adult phones/macbooks etc so some help would be greatly appreciated.
Things I would like to put on it apart from the school stuff;
Spotify?
YouTube (although very wary of this)?
Some form of drawing/art app?
Being able to limit the time and know what they are doing is always good as well as blocking anything inappropriate. I appreciate it's a minefield!
I did the same for my daughter at around the same age. Few years ago now but. You need to setup family sharing I think it’s called. On your account. Your child will also need an Apple ID but that’s handy as they then have an email address etc
You can then link their account to yours and limit the way it’s used wrt downloading apps/ in app purchases etc. the way ours was set up, if she tried to download an app I would receive a notification telling what it was/ age limit etc and I could either approve it or not.
You can also get a kids version of YouTube I believe. At least you could when we went through this. Only allows age specific content. May not be infallible.
This is what I did. And it worked well. This was probably 6/7yrs ago though so things may have changed.
One thing to be aware of is that there are settings to share apps across devices. So if you don’t want your phone to become filled up with copy’s of their dinosaur hunt adventure/ pony club challenge type games, you might want to turn that feature off.
Just Google. Family sharing kids iPad setup. There were loads of online guides when we did it.
You can then link their account to yours and limit the way it’s used wrt downloading apps/ in app purchases etc. the way ours was set up, if she tried to download an app I would receive a notification telling what it was/ age limit etc and I could either approve it or not.
You can also get a kids version of YouTube I believe. At least you could when we went through this. Only allows age specific content. May not be infallible.
This is what I did. And it worked well. This was probably 6/7yrs ago though so things may have changed.
One thing to be aware of is that there are settings to share apps across devices. So if you don’t want your phone to become filled up with copy’s of their dinosaur hunt adventure/ pony club challenge type games, you might want to turn that feature off.
Just Google. Family sharing kids iPad setup. There were loads of online guides when we did it.
Edited by mini me on Wednesday 25th January 10:02
My lads (6 and 3) have both got iPads - YouTube is a nightmare and has been removed from their iPads, as they will happily sit there all day watching absolute nonsense. At least with iPlayer/Netflix/Disney etc, you know that there has been some quality control over the content.
Other tips:
Other tips:
- Set up an Apple family account, with you as admin and them as kids.
- Make sure that you need to approve any apps, or in app purchases being installed.
- You can set time limits etc via screen time.
- They love being able to message/call grandparents.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201304
As said, needs to be on a kids account, which you link to yours.
We limited web content to select sites, and just add ones as needed.
Ours don't have youtube yet but if you do I'd recommend looking at setting up YT Kids so that they only have access to videos you've handpicked. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10315420
As said, needs to be on a kids account, which you link to yours.
We limited web content to select sites, and just add ones as needed.
Ours don't have youtube yet but if you do I'd recommend looking at setting up YT Kids so that they only have access to videos you've handpicked. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10315420
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