Disabling Features

• Using the parental controls you can individually disable podcasts, radio, the Ping social network, shared libraries and the iTunes store. If you choose to disable the iTunes store, an additional checkbox allows you to maintain access to iTunesU, the section of the iTunes store dedicated solely to free educational content.
  
  

Restricting Content

• If you do not want to completely disable the iTunes store, a system of checkboxes and drop-down menus allows you to easily control what types of content your children will be able to access. You can select the rating system to use by country, and adjust the maximum available rating independently for movies, TV programs and apps. An additional checkbox allows you to restrict all explicit content regardless of rating.
  
  

Considerations

• Although limiting what children have access to is a necessity to prevent them from being accidentally exposed to inappropriate content, make sure to adjust the extent of the restrictions you apply to iTunes depending on your children's age and level of maturity. If your children vary widely in age and maturity, consider setting up a separate user account on your computer for each of them: this will allow you to adjust the iTunes parental controls independently for each child.
  
  

Warning

• The iTunes parental controls rely on the user accounts for the computers on which iTunes is installed. If an user account has administrator access, anybody using that account will be able to change the parental controls without having to enter the password for the administrator account. Furthermore, your children will be able to change the parental controls even from an account with restricted permissions if they manage to guess the password for the administrator account. Make sure this password is not easily guessable before setting up parental controls in iTunes.