With many children in quarantine, streaming services have never been more popular. Netflix announced new parental controls that make it easier to monitor what your kids are watching, including the ability to remove movies and TV shows from a Netflix profile altogether.
The announcement, which Netflix revealed on Tuesday, shared several new parental controls that are now in place on the service. The new options are meant to cater to each household’s specific regulations. One option lets parents remove any movie or show from a profile entirely, so it never even pops up when your kids are browsing. Once in the settings, you can simply search for the title you want to block and click to filter it out.
Another new feature being added to the parental controls is the ability for parents to filter out content based on its rating. The filters now have country-specific rating scales, so movies and TV from various markets can be blocked, even if the rating systems in those markets are different.
When these settings are done, parents can prevent their children from changing any of these settings by creating a PIN. Only the person who knows the PIN can access the changes. In a statement, Netflix Kids Product Manager Michelle Parsons said, “choice and control have always been important for our members, especially parents. We hope that these additional controls will help parents make the right choices for their families.”
You can add these new controls now by visiting the account settings in your Netflix app or on the desktop site.
