Amazon Prime Video is a great service for streaming movies and TV shows. But if you want to keep your children from watching inappropriate content, you need to set up parental controls. Here are some tips on how to do this:
- Choose the right parental controls. There are many different types of parental controls available on Amazon Prime Video, so it’s important to choose the ones that will work best for your family. Some common options include “Block All Content” and “Restrict Viewing Timeouts.”
- Set up your account and password. Once you have chosen the right parental controls, it’s time to set up your account and password. This will help protect your account from unauthorized access by others in your family.
- Enable location tracking and privacy protection features. If you want to keep track of where your children are when they watch videos or watch TV shows, you need to enable location tracking and privacy protection features on Amazon Prime Video. These features will help keep track of where they are and who they are with, so they can’t watch inappropriate content without your knowledge or consent
This page lets you configure Prime Video parental controls. At the top of the page, you can click the “Change” button next to Prime Video PIN to set a five-digit PIN for Prime Video. This PIN will be required to authorize the purchase and rental of prime videos, as well as to bypass any parental controls you set here.
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Under “PIN on Purchase,” select “On” to prevent people from spending any money on Prime Video without your permission. You’ll have to enter the PIN every time someone rents or buys something on your account.
You can also select “Off” and you won’t have to enter a PIN whenever you purchase something. This is useful if you’re the only one who uses your account, for example.
For example, if you select age 7, anyone will be able to watch either G or age 7 rated videos, but will need your PIN to watch age 13 or 18 rated videos.
Choose the devices to which you want to apply these parental controls under the “Apply Viewing Restrictions To” section. All your connected devices are checked by default, but you can uncheck specific devices if you don’t want to be bothered by your PIN on them.
For example, you might want to apply the viewing restrictions to devices connected to your TV and tablets your children use, but not to your own personal iPad that only you use.