Changing parental control settings for TikTok is easy. This guide will efficiently walk you through how to do so. Pro tip: want to block TikTok on a device? We can do that for you! Check out our Pro Surfer subscription features and install Safe Surfer on your devices today. Enable restricted mode Open the TikTok app, then tap the Profile menu at the lower-right corner. Tap the three-bar icon at the upper-right corner.

Changing parental control settings for Instagram is easy. This guide will efficiently walk you through how to do so. Pro tip: due to how the Instagram app has been designed, the parental control settings cannot be locked with a PIN. Want to block Instagram on a device? We can do that for you! Check out our Pro Surfer subscription features and install Safe Surfer on your devices today. Set sensitive content control level

Changing parental control settings for Disney+ movie and television streaming is easy. This guide will efficiently walk you through how to do so. Pro tip: want to block Disney+ on a device? We can do that for you! Check out our Pro Surfer subscription features and install Safe Surfer on your devices today. Disney+ supports having multiple profiles per account. Each profile has its own content settings available. To easily change parental controls, visit the Disney+ website on a laptop or desktop computer.

Changing parental control settings for Netflix movie and television streaming is easy. This guide will efficiently walk you through how to do so. Pro tip: want to block Netflix on a device? We can do that for you! Check out our Pro Surfer subscription features and install Safe Surfer on your devices today. Netflix supports having multiple profiles per account. Each profile has its own content settings available. To easily change parental controls, visit the Netflix website on a laptop or desktop computer.

Changing parental control settings for Prime Video movie and television streaming is easy. This guide will efficiently walk you through how to do so. Pro tip: want to block Prime Video on a device? We can do that for you! Check out our Pro Surfer subscription features and install Safe Surfer on your devices today. Amazon Prime Video supports having multiple profiles per account. Each profile has its own content settings available.

Friendly WiFi, which launched in July 2014, was developed by the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) with government support and is administered by the trade organisation RDI. The certification, designated by the official ‘Friendly WiFi’ symbol, verifies that Safe Surfer’s web filter solutions block known pornography and child abuse websites using recognised filters for WiFi deployments, and they are now an official Approved Provider. Safe Surfer can now display the third-party designation as additional assurance that Safe Surfer is committed to enabling safe WiFi experiences for children and families where its filtering technology is relied upon over WiFi.

Hot off the heels of our in-depth report on YouTube Shorts, Safe Surfer has discovered that the comments feature for YouTube videos is being abused by spam accounts to spread pornographic content. Companies, in the marketing of their upcoming movies and television series, frequently post trailers to promote new content—an example of this could be Disney. To grow its customer base, the company posts promotional trailers to YouTube for new Disney+ streaming content from key franchises such as Marvel and Star Wars.

Update 18 August 2023: since this article was originally published in May 2022, we suspect that Google have since made at least some improvements to the content that gets fed through YouTube Shorts to devices with YouTube restrictions applied. This highlights our concern with regard to the technology sector where new technologies and experiences for consumers can be released at the expense of safety. We think that safety should be by design, rather than a later addition.

A well-known inconvenience in the IT world is how the term “phishing” is pronounced the same way as “fishing”. This sometimes creates confusion—just like a real phishing attack! The Safe Surfer team has detailed several suggestions below that can help protect you from cybercriminals. Hover first, click later Attackers sometimes abuse hyperlinks (that is, highlighted web links on websites and emails) to make it appear that you’re going to a friendly site, when you’re really being led to a spoof site—a fake.

There are so many practical things we as parents can do to raise safe, wise and kind digital users. Filtering and monitor software is a must. Clear rules and boundaries are vital. But the one thing I believe bears the most long-term fruit is the building of a healthy digital culture in our homes: an established and consistent way of seeing and doing things which becomes part of the fabric of our character and family.