Suggestion: Parental Control

I would really love to see apple implement parental controls like on the iPhone. I have a 10 y.o. Who has in the past tried to buy games without our consent so I am hesitant to leave the iPad alone with him. I would feel much more comfortable if parental controls were activated and able to limit application use, downloads, etc.

I am sure you would.
The subject has been a rather "hot one" with some polarised threads on the the iPad and iPhone forum, over control of children and the parents responsibility or lack of, by relying upon Apple to control their kids.
Without reopening that all over again, you can send Apple your views here http://www.apple.com/feedback/ but don't expect any action as it is not (in my view) a priority for what Apple view as a single user device.
Can you not log out of iTunes to stop the child from purchasing ?

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Suggestions/Wishlist: Favorites as Guide Default View, 16:9 Guide and Parental Controls

Had FiOS installed less than a week ago after years as a DirecTV subscriber. Overall very happy, but the Guide really needs work. For starters, Guide Options should allow me to set the default view for the guide to include only a) channels I receive; or b) Favorites. The latter allows me to filter channels I'll never watch from appearing in an already cluttered guide. Constraining the guide display to 4:3 makes it look more cluttered and limits the amount of data that can be displayed -- a 16:9 view will be a lot easier on the eye as would the ability to suppress the color coding.
Parental Controls: When I unlock a channel, I should have the following options: Unlock This Channel Only or Unlock All Channels (this works nicely in conjunction with having only channels I receive included in the guide). Unlocking all channels now requires too many steps. A timer feature would be nice as well. DirecTV has a 4 hour option, at which point you are prompted to re-enter a password. A better solution would be half-hour increments(e.g. Susie can watch TV for 30minutes after school, but not get sucked into 6 episodes of Hannah Montana...)
I would appreciate any feedback on the foregoing. FiOS is a great product -- just a few things to makeit even better.
Chris

16:9 guide was started (although it was just a stretched 4:3) but it had so many complaints that it was retracted. It is supposed to be coming in not the next upgrade but the one after that. (two upgrades out). It is going to be a true HD 16:9 guide, but it is still in production.
There are ways with the Favorites. The link above is an excellent source.
Same as JUSTIN about the parental controls, I dont need or use them so I have no experience with it.
And just as an aside, this is a user to user forum, with next to no Verizon official presence. There are a few employees that float in and out and try to help, and I'm sure that some of them try and escalate the suggestions. But we have yet to get any kind of "official" site to make suggestions yet.
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Approved applications not showing up in simple finder (parental controls)

I set up a limited access account for my son and turned on the simple finder option. I went through and selected the programs that I want him to have access to. However, not all the selected applications show up in the simple finder of the limited account. A few programs that were downloaded (a simple paint like program and a word processing program) don't show up, and I can't figure out how to get my son access to these short of turning off the simple finder. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

I'm not sure what the answer to this would be, because I don't use the Simple Finder mode much. However, you may have to specify in the Parental Controls preferences exactly which applications you want on his account. For example, instead of taking off some applications, add on the paint application and such. Post back here if you need more details or if that doesn't work. Another thing you could always do is to copy an application over your account into his, although I'm not entirely sure how you could do that. Hope this helps.

Parental Controls do not work.

I recently setup a computer for my boss' daughter and in doing so enabled the parental controls. Everything appeared to be working correctly until I got a call tonite. When I first setup the parental controls feature, I gave my boss' daughter access to only ONE site.... Yahooligans (The YAHOO SITE FOR KIDS). She came home today and typed in yahoo.com in the address bar and the main site came up with full search capabilities. Eveything else is being blocked as expected but this totally defeats the purpose of having a kids site if the kids can type in yahoo.com and get to the full acess/full search site. Anyone else having these problems..... or know of a third party software for Mac to block content?
Thanks in advance for your input
R
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Often, when it isn't possible to select an application for use in a "managed" account, the fault lies with the developer of the software for failing to follow Apple's guidelines and omitting eg. the 'CFBundleIdentifier' from the programme's "Info.plist" file.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300842
As the article suggests, it would be best to check with the developer, although it may be possible for a user to edit the file themselves in some cases, but given the effort involved, most people seem to find the alias workaround good enough.
Regarding the presence of the "Shared" folder in a "Simple Finder" user's "Dock", these managed user preferences are all stored in 'mcx_settings' in the "NetInfo" database, in plain text so it is possible (though somewhat tedious) to edit them. Another option is to download the "Server Admin Tools" from Apple, which includes "Workgroup Manager.app" which allows some fine-grained, though not complete control over these settings through the plist editor (it isn't exactly user-friendly either, but it is sort of a GUI).
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/serveradmintools1047.html
However, if the concern is that the user can open applications that haven't been selected, note that blocking access to the "Shared" folder still won't prevent users from launching programmes by other means.

Parental Control Netflix app

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Parental Control Netflix setting feature where users can disable enable the search / genre feature for parenthood with kids
which leaves us with just for kids and instant queue and sign out option
It will be great to bring parental control on apple tv 3 netflix setting to disable some feature like
Search .suggestion for you .recently watched .genres ,tv shows ,new releases
when it disable it will only show instant queue and just for kids and sign out
so one is for just for kids movies and shows and instant queue is what titles we have on queue
love to see parental control for netflix app on v 3 for iOS 6
thank you

Thatchcote
You should try Mobicip's Safe Browser app. It is designed to provide a safe, secure and educational Internet browsing experience for young children on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The optional Premium subscription service allows parents and educators to customize the filter settings and monitor browsing activity remotely from a web browser. Please visit www.mobicip.com for more information.
Disclosure: This response is posted by a representative of Mobicip.com who may stand to gain indirectly from this recommendation.

Parental control problem

My family has a mac os x 10.5.8 Leopard, and my parents have set parental controls to limit the time each user has every day. The problem is, when Parental Controls "log out" a user, it merely switches to the login screen. The user's applications are still running, which uses the cpu for basically nothing, the memory(RAM) is still in use... the computer is slower, especially if multiple users have been "logged out" in the same way. Is there a way to fix this problem without buying Snow Leopard?
If not, is it fixed in the current release of os x 10.6 Snow Leopard?
If not, I would suggest to Apple for their next release they add an additional one minute(maybe parental control - customizable) for the user to save whatever he/she is doing(but nothing else), and when all applications are saved or when the minute is up, all applications are quitted and it logs out properly.

HI,
You can provide feedback here.
Carolyn

Parental Controls - love em, hate em

I really like the parental controls in Yosemite - nice granularity and good job Apple.
However, there is one challenge that I face that hope as an easy answer that I may be overlooking.
I have Web parental controls set to the default of 'Try to limit access to adult websites automatically' for both of my kids. However, I don't see a way to use wildcards to cover variations of a URL. Specifically, my kids both use Google docs for school. I am constantly having to 'approve' access to various URLs that all seem to be coming from Google docs. I wish I could insert a wildcard such as the percent sign in this example: https://docs.google.com/%
There are other examples like this were wildcards should be used. Is there a way to do this in Yosemite?

i havent heard anything bad about it but i also have not heard a lot about it in general.
i would suggest setting up another account on your machine and set the controls and try it out your self. you shouldnt have any issues that you cant fix very quickly (or just fix by deleting the test account)
-matt

Is there a FREE Parental Controls software for Mac?

Does anyone know of a free parental controls software for Mac? I have OS 10.3.9 and don't want to (or need to) get 10.4 +. Thus I can't run safari 2.0 or later and I want to have parental controls. I suspect it's out there but I can't seem to find it. TIA all.

For Tiger, Workgroup Manager (part of the free Tiger Server Admin Tools) offers greatly expanded account management options than what the built-in Parental Controls offers. OS X Server is not required; it works great on the regular OS X.
There was a version for Panther too, but I never tried it, so I don't know if it will do what you need. But the screen shot on the download page suggests that it might. You might want to download it yourself and try it out:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxserver1034admintools.html
You might also try asking your question in the "OS X 10.3 and earlier" forum here in the discussions. This forum is for Tiger only.

What is the best parental control software for mac?

Hi!
I'm starting to teach my son (8 years old) in the use of Mac computer and I would like to have suggestions about the best software to be installed for a good parental control.
There is the possibility to localize two language (english and italian)?
thank you in advance for the suggestions!
Antonello

Antam7 wrote:
There is the possibility to localize two language (english and italian)?
Every account you set up can be localized in a different language if you want. So you can have yours in Itallian and your son's in English. The language is determined by what is at the top of the list in system prefs/language & text/language. You just drag the one you want there and logout/login.

How can I enforce Parental Controls on a group of network users on an Open Directory client?

I have a Mac mini running OS X Server (Mountain Lion) and have a client family iMac that is a client of the Open Directory server. I have created network users for my kids and put them into a group and created Parental Control restrictions that apply to members of the group. However, the kids can log into the iMac with the same network accounts and no Parental Control policies are enforced on the iMac.
I'd like to restrict times and hours per day, as well as the obvious content/website restrictions. I'm not sure why the Parental Control policy isn't being enforced. While I'm not great at it, I do have a basic understanding/overview of knowledge on Windows Server administration, but OS X Server seems to be waaay different...
I have fiddled with the certificate, and I have told the client iMac to trust the certificate coming from my Open Directory server, but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference with the enforcement of the kids group's Parental Control policies.
Can anyone assist or offer any suggestions?

Related logs from the OD client iMac below:
2013-07-13 20:37:45 -0400 mdmclient[12003]: *** ERROR *** [Agent:501] Sending 'OTA-Phase2' request to server: https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service (<NSURLErrorDomain:-1001> The request timed out.
UserInfo: {
    NSErrorFailingURLKey = "https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service";
    NSErrorFailingURLStringKey = "https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service";
    NSLocalizedDescription = "The request timed out.";
    NSUnderlyingError = "Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1001 \"The request timed out.\" UserInfo=0x7fef6a82b2b0 {NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service, NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out., NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service}";
2013-07-13 20:37:45 -0400 mdmclient[12003]: *** ERROR *** [Agent:501] ProcessOTABootstrapProfileCore (<NSURLErrorDomain:-1001> The request timed out.
UserInfo: {
    NSErrorFailingURLKey = "https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service";
    NSErrorFailingURLStringKey = "https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service";
    NSLocalizedDescription = "The request timed out.";
    NSUnderlyingError = "Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1001 \"The request timed out.\" UserInfo=0x7fef6a82b2b0 {NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service, NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out., NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service}";
2013-07-13 20:37:45 -0400 System Preferences[11138]: *** ERROR *** [CPInstallerUI:501] Profile installation (Device Enrollment (com.apple.ota.server.local.bootstrap)) (<NSURLErrorDomain:-1001> The request timed out.
UserInfo: {
    NSErrorFailingURLKey = "https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service";
    NSErrorFailingURLStringKey = "https://server.local/devicemanagement/api/device/ota_service";
    NSLocalizedDescription = "The request timed out.";

Parental Controls logs - freeze computer

I've recently enabled parental controls on one account on my Core 2 Duo MacBook running 10.5.5.
Several times I've run into the same problem. When looking at the logs of internet sites visited or blocked on the account, the settings application freezes - giving me an endlessly spinning beachball. I am unable to force quit the application from the dock, from force quit on the apple menu, or from the activity monitor. I am unable to log off my account, because the settings application is still running and it cancels the log off attempt. The only solution I've found is to restart the computer. This has happened several times, and is the only reason I've been forced to restart the computer in many months. Is this a known issue? Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help.

HI ForrestGreen,
Try Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions. Launch Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities). Select MacintoshHD 10.x.x in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab then click: Repair Disk Permissions. Quit Disk Utility when it's finished and reboot. Go to System Preferences/Parental Controls and see if it functions as it should
Hopefully that will do the trick, if not post back.
Carolyn
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Drag & Drop Permission with Parental Controls

I recently created a new user account on my computer so that I could use parental controls. The only part of parental controls that I really want to use is the logs feature. I have all the applications checked so that they can all be accessed under this account. My question is, is there any way to let this user move items to other folders? I basically want this account to be able to do everything the admin account can except for a few minor things (like keep a log of activity). Any body have any suggestions?

I know how to do that, thank you for answering though. Is there an easier way than selecting EACH folder and having to do this. To give you an example, I copied my iTunes Library over to the new account...I made the library file and the main iTunes music file read & write but I have over 400 artist folders and do not want to go in and change each of them individually. Is there any easier way to keep logs that I am not aware about? There were 2 reasons I wanted to created this account with parental controls. I wanted to password protect safari and firefox so that my nephew that is staying with us can not open these applications when we are not here. The other reason was to keep the logs. Is there any easier way to go about this?

Best parent controls for iPads and iMac running on BT Home Hub

Hi,
Despite the great sounds coming from the big ISPs about parental controls, they're determined to make a really simple concept absolutely impossible.
Firstly, I'm not trying to lock-down my family's access to the net, but I have two boys aged around ten, and being boys they're inquisitive, so are probably getting closer to stumbling across some seriously dodgy content... And I want to try to prevent that... It should not be hard. If I could limit the times they were online, just if browsing gets out of hand (they're kids remember) that would be a handy option as well.
So on to the technical details... We have a standard BT broadband account that comes into a new BT Home Hub. This is currently our WiFi point. We run a laptop, two ipads, iphones and an ipod touch on Wifi, and have a desktop ethernet'd to the Home Hub. BT offer a downlaodable Family Protection package that allows user accounts to be configured, but this does not appear to work on an iPad or Touch.
Very shortly, we're about to retire the PCs from family life and install an iMac. So we're getting into a properly Mac environment. I was also considering installing a Time Capsule for back-ups and had considered stringing this in series on the Home Hub, then networking all of the Apple devices off of the Time Capsule.
Ideally, the controls would be at a us level, or at least by device. I've come across some App options, but this seems like an unecessary layer of proprietary complexity.
So how Do we deploy parental controls? The simplest option, that BT have failed to realise, would be a network solution that filters everything coming into the house and stops it before it even hits the Home Hub - but that doesn't appear to be an option.
So what options do we have? Any ideas? I had heard suggestions that I could manage user control via the Time Capsule, but that's proving hard to confirm.
Happy to supply any further information to help with this query.
In summary, how do I stop **** getting onto my boys' iPads/Touchs... Should be simple????
Cheers, Mombee.

Sorry, but the Apple routers do have any type of parental controls on them.
If you have not already done so, you might want to take a look at the parental control options offered by OpenDNS.
OpenDNS Parental Control ...

How can I remove parental controls? PLEASE HELP!

I just got my Mac-Mini, and sometimes when I want to do something on it, A screen with 'parental controls' pops up, and I have to enter a password, which I don't know. I've asked my parents if they did this, but they didn't! And after an hour, my Mac says: Your time is over, to add an extra hour, enter your password. How can I remove it? It's very annoying because I can't even go to Facebook, or Youtube.

The parents, if the mini were ever used officially by them and had any software
installed, bought music, updated the system, etc, would've used their Apple ID.
So, if through legitimate sources and correctly set-up, or if bought used and set
up with the new owner's information, installed new OS X, and etc, it would have
an Admin account or be accessible by the owner's Apple ID.
Before using suggested links to change an unknown Admin access password,
be sure to check, because if this unit has seen any software update, iTunes,
App Store or Mac App Store access, someone has an account and it may be
that would alter how the computer was used by them, if you change it now.
Also, to update or upgrade System software, and most online store access, does
require a valid payment card to be entered. If the parents are a party to this use,
then seems to reason, they should be in on what to change the new password to.
Good luck & happy computing!

What happened to the parental controls page

I have not had occasion to mess with any parental controls recently until today. I had the page bookmarked that allowed me to control what email addresses my minor child could send and receive email to/from and that page is gone. I cannot for the life of me find anywhere on this site where to adjust parental control settings. I now have another minor child for whom we've created a sub account for and I have no way of controlling what email is allowed in. Why I try to go to Manage Sub Accounts I get an error message that that page no longer exists. Argh! I've been fooling with this site and the Verizon Yahoo site for over an hour. Where is the parental controls page that actually lets me set the parameters?!

Thank you. That does the trick.
As a suggestion, you might want to put something in the tool tip for that star, saying that double click opens controls.

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