Overview
- At WWDC on Monday, June 8, 2026 Apple announced a Child Accounts system that is required for users under 13 and available up to age 18, with age-based safeguards that activate across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
- A new Ask to Browse feature in Safari will force children to request parental approval before visiting a new website, extending Apple’s existing Ask to Buy app-approval flow to the web.
- Communication Safety, already set to blur nudity for under‑18 users, will now also detect and warn or block graphic violence and gore in Messages and FaceTime using on-device analysis.
- A redesigned Screen Time adds Time Allowances and daily Schedules so parents can set category-level limits, view at-a-glance usage, and grant extra time without sharing a child’s exact birthdate with apps.
- Apple launched parent resources and developer tools, and said the features will ship with iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 this fall as activists and the UK government press for faster device-level protections.