The App Store has something for everyone—even the youngest members of your family.

We’ve made it easy to find apps and games that are right for your children. Here are a few ways to manage your family’s App Store experience.

The Kids category on the App Store is carefully curated to be a great space for children.

The App Review team ensures every title on the App Store adheres to our strict app review standards. In addition, developers who publish their apps in the Kids category must agree to even more stringent requirements, like not offering purchasing opportunities, links out of their app, and other distractions unless in a designated area behind a parental gate.

Apps and games in the Kids category fall into three age bands designated by the developer: 5 and under, 6–8, and 9–11. Parents can browse by these age ranges from the main Kids page.

Every app has an assigned age rating, so parents can determine if the app is appropriate for their children. Age ratings are generated based on developers’ responses to a detailed questionnaire about the frequency of sensitive content within their app.

On your iPhone or iPad, at the top of an app’s product page you’ll find its age rating. Tap it to get to the Information section, where you’ll find details that help you assess the content and any potentially objectionable material within an app or game. Parental controls features on iPhone and iPad follow these age ratings so parents and guardians can establish a safe online environment for children.

Managed through Family Sharing, Child Accounts offer parents robust control over their children’s experience to help them use Apple devices in a safe and age-appropriate manner.

You can easily set Screen Time limits, approve app downloads and purchase requests, manage Location Sharing settings, and set content restrictions based on age ratings.

Screen Time gives you a better understanding of the time you and your kids spend on apps, websites, and your devices overall.

You can get weekly reports, see specific app usage, how many times you pick up your device, and more. You can also choose which apps are off-limits.

Screen Time also lets you set the amount of time you and your kids can spend each day on specific apps and websites. You can create exceptions for specific apps, such as Messages or education apps, and kids can always request more time for you to approve.

With Downtime, you can set a specific time of day, such as bedtime, when apps and notifications are blocked.

After you turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions, you can set up specific parental controls. You can prevent your child from installing and deleting apps, as well as from making in-app purchases in apps installed from the App Store. You can also restrict apps outside of selected age ratings.

Some apps and games offer in-app purchases of digital goods and services. You can control your child’s ability to make in-app purchases on iPhone and iPad by going to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions and toggling on Content & Privacy Restrictions.

With Ask to Buy, you can give kids the freedom to make their own choices while still controlling spending. With Ask to Buy turned on, whenever a family member who isn’t an adult initiates a new purchase or free download, a request goes to the organizer. The organizer can review the item and approve or decline the purchase from their own device or their child’s device. The organizer can also designate another parent or guardian to approve or review purchases.

When Ask to Buy is enabled, organizers can now grant an exception so their child can download an app with an age-rating that exceeds an app restriction that has been set in Screen Time. In order to allow your child to ask for permission to access apps that exceed app restrictions, you must enable Ask to Buy for your child: Go to Settings > Family > Child Name > Ask to Buy. Organizers can also revoke permission at any time, and the child will no longer be able to use the app.

Family Sharing lets you share eligible apps, subscriptions, and in-app purchases with up to five family members. When you enable Purchase Sharing for your family, all purchases initiated by family members will be billed to the family organizer, who can also create Apple Accounts for kids under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age applicable in your country or region) and add them to the family group.

To initiate and configure Family Sharing, go to Settings on a Mac or iOS/iPadOS device.

Content availability may vary per country or region.