How To Turn Off Restrictions on iPad and iPhone

Apple permits you to employ restrictions for many features apps and features on an iPhone. And these restrictions can be a really great way of limiting content that’s accessible via your children. So you can make sure they aren’t influenced via something that’s inappropriate for their age. You guys can also use some of these restrictions to avoid apps from gaining access to your location. What you guys are up to, or something that’s actually on your iPhone. In this article, we are going to talk about How To Turn Off Restrictions on iPad and iPhones. Let’s begin!

As your kids grow up, then you might want to ease down on the restrictions you have set for them and for your other devices as well. Along with so many restrictions in place, you guys might lose track of which ones are active currently and what do you do to take control of them as well.

Turn Off Content & Privacy Restrictions in iPad

In order to limit activity and content on other devices such as your child’s iPhone or iPad. Apple permits you to set restrictions on content that’s consumed and their privacy. If you guys want to completely turn OFF all the restrictions that you have set for your secondary device or your child’s iPad/iPhone. Then you can do that via simply turning this feature off.

• In order to disable Content & Privacy Restrictions, then open the Settings app on your iPhone and choose the ‘Screen Time’ option.
• Inside Screen Time, scroll down and choose the ‘Content & Privacy Restrictions’ option.
• It might ask you to enter a Screen Time passcode if you had set one prior to this.
• On the next screen, just toggle OFF the ‘Content & Privacy Restrictions’ option.

• This will turn off all restrictions that are in place on your iPhone or secondary device, providing it access to everything the device is capable of.
• If you want to keep the ‘Content & Privacy Restrictions’ option enabled, however, want to individually lift off restrictions for different categories on your iPhone, you can check out the next few sections.

Turn Off App Store Purchase Restrictions

If you have a bunch of secondary devices that you or many others in your family use and you previously restricted any of those devices. In order to purchase an app/game from the App Store or items from iTunes. Then you can disable those restrictions via first opening the Settings app and going to ‘Screen Time.

• On the next screen, scroll down and choose the ‘Content & Privacy Restrictions’ option.
• It might ask you to enter a Screen Time passcode if you had set one prior to this.
• Now, click on the ‘iTunes & App Store Purchases’ option.

• If you want to permit others to make purchases on their devices. Then tap on ‘In-app Purchases’ and select the ‘Allow’ option.
• If you haven’t allowed such functionality for ‘Installing App’ and ‘Deleting Apps’ on many other devices, you can also choose either of these features and select ‘Allow’ to turn off the restrictions you might have set before.

Turn Off Explicit Content Restrictions

Just like the app restrictions, Apple provides ways to limit the content that’s being watched on all your devices. You can set restrictions for avoiding when explicit content or content with particular ratings is played on an iPhone/iPad/Mac.

• If you guys no longer want to restrict explicit content and content ratings. Then head  to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions.
• Here, just click on the ‘Content Restrictions’ option.
• Inside this screen, select what you want to turn off restrictions from under the ‘Allowed Store Content’ section.

Music, Podcasts, News & Workouts: Select from Clean or Explicit, the latter gives access to all content.

Music Videos: Just set to ON to disable restrictions.

Movies: Select‘Allow All Movies’ to give access to all titles that are available for viewing.

Music Profiles: Set to ON to turn off restrictions.

TV shows: Choose ‘Allow All TV Shows’ to provide access to all titles that are available for you to watch.

Books: Select from Clean or Explicit, the latter gives access to all content.

Apps: Choose ‘Allow All Apps’ in order to lift restrictions on apps.

Turn Off Apps and Feature Restrictions on iPad

Apple also permits you to limit what apps and features your linked devices have access to. If you guys previously had set restrictions for the use of built-in apps or features on an iPhone, here’s how you can disable them. Tuning on access to these apps and features won’t need you to install them back. Or also update them to the latest version since Apple only temporarily hid the features from the restricted iPhone/iPad whenever you disabled them before.

• In order to get to these restrictions screen open the Settings app and head to Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions.
• Now, choose the ‘Allowed Apps’ section on this screen.
• You will now see a list of apps and features that you may have enabled/disabled on a device. To turn off all restrictions, enable all the toggles available on this screen. You can also individual turn off a restriction and keep the others enabled through only toggling ON the feature you want to lift a limit from.

Turn Off Web Content Restrictions

• When you enable, you can then restrict others from accessing specific websites or unapproved ones. If you wish your devices to access more websites. Then you can do this by going to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions.
• Here, click on the ‘Content Restrictions’ option.
• On the next screen, scroll down and choose the ‘Web Content’ option.
• Inside the ‘Web Content’ screen. Select the option that best suits your preferences. You can select the option that’s right for you relying on if you want to give your device access to all websites. Or add access to more websites than the ones that were previously approved as well.

Unrestricted Access: Choosing this will allow you unrestricted access to all websites.

Limit Adult Websites: You can use this setting to permit your devices access to all websites except for the ones that show adult content. You can also add websites under ‘Always Allow’ in order to approve them and ‘Never Allow’ to restrict them.

Allows Websites Only: If you guys want to allow access to more websites rather than all. You can select this option and then also add websites under ‘Always Allow’ to approve them and ‘Never Allow’ in order to restrict them.

Turn Off Siri Restrictions

Apple lets you avoid using Siri to access web content or showing explicit language whenever suggesting results. If you had previously put restrictions on Siri on your Apple devices as well. You can lift them off via going to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions.

On this screen, just click on the ‘Content Restrictions’ option.

Web Search Content: You can control Siri if or not it can get you results after searching the web. For this, head to the ‘Siri’ section and click on the ‘Web Search Content’ option. Select ‘Allow’ on the next screen and come back to the previous screen.

Explicit Language: You can also select if Siri uses Explicit Language in order to give you results for something you asked. Under Siri, choose ‘Explicit Language’ and select to allow.

Turn Off Privacy Restrictions

iOS let you modify access to some privacy settings that some apps may also access or request. These limitations also include the ability to access location, contacts, calendars, pictures, microphones, and many other elements of your iPhone. If you guys had enabled any of these restrictions in the past. Then you can turn these off via going to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions.

On the next screen, then scroll down to the ‘Privacy’ section and also configure these restrictions individually.

Location Services: Choose ‘Allow Changes’ in order to let any new apps and websites use your location.

Contacts: Select ‘Allow Changes’ to let apps access your Contacts info.

Calendars: Choose ‘Allow Changes’ to provide apps access to your Calendar.

Reminders: Select ‘Allow Changes’ to give apps your Reminders information.

Photos: Choose ‘Allow Changes’ to let apps access your pictures and additionally set what’s visible to each of the apps.

Share My Location: Choose ‘Allow’ to permit location sharing from Messages and Find My Friends.

Bluetooth sharing: Select ‘Allow Changes’ to let devices and apps share data via Bluetooth.

Microphone: Select ‘Allow Changes’ to permit apps to request access to your microphone.

Speech Recognition: Choose ‘Allow Changes’ and then let apps access Speech Recognition or Dictation on your iPhone.

Advertising: Choose ‘Allow’ to permit changes to be made to your advertising settings.

Media & Apple Music: Choose ‘Allow Changes’ in order to let apps access your photos, videos, or music library.

Turn Off Game Center Restrictions on iPad

• If you somehow enabled restrictions inside Game Center for your child’s iPhone or your secondary device, then you can disable them via following the steps below.
• First, open the Settings app and head to Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions.
• Here, click on the ‘Content Restrictions’ option.
• You can then select ‘Allow’ in order to enable all the features inside Game Center and then turn them on one by one.

Multiplayer Games: Limit restrictions via choosing either ‘Allow with friends only’ or ‘Allow along with everyone’. The latter letting you and others using your devices play along with anyone online.

Adding Friends: Select ‘Allow’ to provide access to adding anyone as a friend.

Connect with Friends: Choose ‘Allow’ to provide access to converse with a friend.

Screen Recording: Choose ‘Allow’ to let the device record your screen during a game.

Nearby Multiplayer: Allow users in order to play multiplayer in nearby settings.

Private Messaging: Choose ‘Allow’ to provide the device the ability to send or receive messages along with game and friend invites.

Profile Privacy Changes: Choose ‘Allow’ to give the device ability in order to change their profile’s privacy settings.

Avatar & Nickname Changes: Choose ‘Allow’ to let anyone using the device the means in order to change Game Center avatars and nicknames.

Turn Off Other Settings Restrictions

Besides some privacy settings, iOS also employs restrictions whenever dealing with other settings. Such as changes to passcode, account, mobile data, sound sounds, DND mode, TV provider, and also background app activities. Relying on how you want them configured, then you can set all or some of them to ‘Allow’ to prevent restrictions on iPad.

• To get to these controls, head to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions.
• On the next screen, scroll down to the ‘Allow Changes’ section and then configure these restrictions individually.

Passcode Changes: Select ‘Allow’ only if you’re completely willing to let apps change your passcode.

Account Changes: Choose ‘Allow’ to let changes be made whenever adding removing or modifying accounts inside Accounts & Passwords.

Mobile Data Changes: Choose ‘Allow’ in order to let changes be made to cellular data settings on a device.

Reduce Sound Sounds: Choose ‘Allow’ to let your iPhone avoid you from going beyond safe listening volumes.

Do Not Disturb While Driving: Select ‘Allow’ to permit changes to be made to Do Not Disturb While Driving.

TV Provider: Select ‘Allow’ to make changes to TV provider settings.

Background App Activities: Choose ‘Allow’ to control if or not apps run in the background.

Turn Off Restrictions for App Tracking

Apple lets you deny app tracking requests automatically via default when they’re installed. You can, however, provide these apps the ability to send you requests so that they can track your activity across many other apps and websites.

Note: We’d suggest you to keep this setting disabled for the sake of your data’s security and privacy.

• If you still want to permit this feature, open the Settings app and head to ‘Privacy’.
• Inside the ‘Privacy’ screen, just click on the ‘Tracking’ option.

• On the next screen, toggle ON the ‘Allow Apps in order to request to track’ feature to limit the tracking restrictions.

Turn Off Notification Restrictions on iPad

If you previously limited notifications from an app on your iPhone, then you can take off those restrictions via opening the Settings app and then choosing the ‘Notifications’ option on the screen.

• On this screen, choose an app you want to remove notification restrictions from under the ‘Notification Style’ section.
• Whenever the App’s notification settings appear, toggle ON the ‘Allow Notifications’ option at the top to permit all notifications.
• Plus, you can enable different notification styles for the selected app via enabling Lock Screen, Notification Centre, and Banners under ‘Alerts’ as well.
• You can also modify other apps via repeating the same steps as the ones mentioned above. This is how you guys can remove restrictions for app notifications on iOS as well.

Turn Off Restrictions for Apps Access

Well, the above settings were strictly for controlling what other devices that are connected to your account access them,. The restrictions we’re going to show here are those that are in place on your own iPhone as well. Apple permits you to limit apps from gaining access to different iOS apps and features. Such as Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Photos, Bluetooth, local network, microphone, speech recognition, camera, health data, files and folders, media, and much more.

• To access these controls, you have to open the Settings app and choose the ‘Privacy’ option on the screen.
• Inside Privacy, you should all the labels that you can restrict for many apps on your iPhone. Tap on any category where you guys want to see whether apps have access to it.
• When you’re inside a category, you should see a list of apps that have requested access to a specific setting. You can turn off restrictions for an app via toggling ON the switch adjacent to the app that you want to turn on access to.

Conclusion

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