It was first announced in June, Apple recently launched its expanded wing of parents’ control tools, as the new iOS 26 goes to consumers worldwide. Listed in the squad: new ways for parents to prevent those who can communicate with them.
with The last program updateThe new connection limits will require young users to obtain permission from the parents’ accounts before they can call new phone numbers on the phone, faceime, messages or iCloud. This change is an evolution for the Apple’s current child account feature, integrated into the option of sharing the company’s family, which places simple accounts under the parents’ ages based on age and supervision of manager profiles.
Parents can also correct the account age or convert an Apple account for their children retroactively to the child’s account under iOS 26. The child’s accounts between the ages of 13 and 17 will now be chosen to these default settings, such as web content filters, applications, and Apple communication safety feature, which discovers sensitive content and warning enemy users. The feature also announces nudity in FaceTime and Flurses in common photo albums.
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Finally, the company has updated the App Store Age and the download options for parents, which is part of the new features aimed at putting more safety pressure on the application developers that were announced earlier this year.
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Last week, the child’s safety advocates were detained at the annual Apple product event, and called on the company to protect young users and stop the spread of sexual assault materials on children. A law against Apple was filed in December because of its failure to comply with mandatory reporting guidelines and its devices are falsely marketing as safe for users at risk. In general, the company and other adult technology leaders were accused of failing to address the increasing mental health crisis between adolescents and children, who are increasingly dependent on technology.
Features are now available via the updated line of the company, including devices that operate iOS 26, iPados 26, MacOS Tahoe 26, Watchos 26, Visionos 26 and TVOS 26.