Apple recently released a new animated video on its official YouTube channel, introducing users to Child Account and the latest upgrades to parental control features, demonstrating how to create a safer, more age-appropriate digital environment for children through iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Apple released a video highlighting new child safety features on its devices.
Apple recently further strengthened its parental control tools with the release of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, adding several new features to help parents keep track of their children’s device usage while also balancing privacy and security. The newly released video uses lighthearted, lively animation to guide viewers through real-world use cases for these new features, and also reviews the important parental management tools currently available.
Apple notes that creating a child account is the first step in enabling the related safety features. Once parents set up a dedicated account for their child, the system can automatically apply appropriate protections based on the user’s age, ensuring the content the child is exposed to matches their developmental stage. With these settings, parents can more easily manage their child’s digital activities across the Apple ecosystem while reducing the risk of exposure to inappropriate content.
The video specifically highlights several parental control features that parents value highly. For example, parents can restrict the types of apps their children can download and use, and through the Ask to Buy feature, receive notifications before their child downloads a new app, game, or makes an in-app purchase, and then decide whether to approve the transaction. This mechanism not only prevents children from accidentally buying paid content, but also lets parents keep track of the types of apps their children are exposed to.
In addition to app management, Apple’s newly added “Ask Before Browsing” feature has also become one of the video’s highlights. When a child wants to visit a specific website, they can first submit an access request to their parent, who decides whether to allow access. This design makes managing web browsing more flexible; it is no longer just simple blocking or allowing, but provides a more granular and real-time approval mechanism.
In terms of Communication Safety, Apple has also introduced several upgrades. The video shows how parents can approve new contacts to prevent children from connecting with strangers, while also enhancing Communication Safety features to further help detect potentially risky content. These measures are intended to reduce safety concerns that may arise from online socializing, allowing underage users to communicate in a more protected environment.
In addition, the new version of the system also expands screen time management features. Parents can not only set daily time limits but also create different usage schedules based on weekdays, weekends, or specific activities. For example, limiting entertainment content during class, or automatically disabling certain functions during sleep hours, to help children develop healthier digital habits.
It is worth noting that although this animated video differs from Apple’s usual product marketing style, its clean visual design and smooth motion effects reminded many viewers of Apple’s classic concept video “Intentions,” released during its 2013 WWDC developer conference. Both use simple geometric shapes, vivid colors, and playful animation techniques to turn relatively abstract technologies and ideas into an easily understandable visual language, allowing viewers to quickly grasp the feature highlights and the ideas behind them.
Through this latest video, Apple once again demonstrates its emphasis on children’s digital safety, and it also reflects how, in an era of increasingly widespread smart devices, parental control tools have become an indispensable part of modern family life. In the future, as related features continue to expand, parents will be able to help children safely explore the online world in more flexible and intuitive ways, while cultivating healthy and responsible digital habits.
Source: KOCPC Chinese