{"id":24,"date":"2025-12-11T06:35:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/?p=24"},"modified":"2025-12-11T06:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:35:46","slug":"parental-control-tools-for-different-video-game-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/2025\/12\/11\/parental-control-tools-for-different-video-game-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental Control Tools for Different Video Game Consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For parents looking to establish a safe digital playing environment for their children, all of the major video game platforms thankfully include parental control tools. Below are a list of tools for different platforms. Feel free to explore the options for whichever console\/device you have at home!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Consoles:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playstation.com\/en-us\/support\/account\/ps5-parental-controls-spending-limits\/\">PlayStation 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.xbox.com\/help\/family-online-safety\/browse\">Xbox Series X\/S<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.co.uk\/Nintendo-Switch\/Nintendo-Switch-Parental-Controls\/Nintendo-Switch-Parental-Controls-1183145.html\">Nintendo Switch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Older Consoles:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playstation.com\/en-us\/parental-controls\/\">PlayStation 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.xbox.com\/help\/family-online-safety\/browse\">Xbox One<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/manuals.playstation.net\/document\/en\/ps3\/current\/basicoperations\/parentallock.html\">PlayStation 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.xbox.com\/help\/xbox-360\/security\/xbox-live-parental-control\">Xbox 360<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Wii U\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.uk\/Support\/Wii-U\/Parental-Controls\/Tutorial-video-Parental-Controls-on-Wii-U\/Tutorial-video-Parental-Controls-on-Wii-U-805722.html\">Wii U<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>PC\/Mobile:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/googleplay\/answer\/1075738\/?hl=en\">Google Play<\/a> (Android)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201304\">iPhone\/iPad<\/a>\u00a0(iOS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.steampowered.com\/en\/faqs\/view\/6B1A-66BE-E911-3D98\">Steam<\/a> (Popular game distribution platform on PC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/family-safety\">Windows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/mac-help\/set-up-content-and-privacy-restrictions-mchl8490d51e\/mac\">macOS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For parents looking to establish a safe digital playing environment for their children, all of the major video game platforms thankfully include parental control tools. Below are a list of tools for different platforms. Feel free to explore the options &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/2025\/12\/11\/parental-control-tools-for-different-video-game-consoles\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parental Control Tools for Different Video Game Consoles<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parental-control-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/e267253\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}