​Tools & Controls

Begin by setting up personalized profiles for different family members and their devices to start using tools like parental controls, time limits and downtime schedules.

Learn how to add user profiles.

Learn how to assign a device to a profile.

Enabling Parental Controls helps ensure access to age-appropriate content on all devices assigned to your selected user profile.

See our step-by-step guide to turning parental controls on and off.

Lost track of hours spent online? Want to balance time gaming with time playing outdoors? Active Time Details lets you easily see how much time you or your children are spending on select popular apps and websites while connected to your home WiFi network.

Use our step-by-step guide to turn on Active Time Details.

See which apps are included in Active Time Details.

Help your tweens and teens disconnect at important times; whether that’s during mealtimes, homework, or sleeping at night. Setting up time limits and scheduling downtime allows you to pause internet access for selected users at specific times automatically.

Learn how to set time limits to manage your family’s daily internet usage.

Enable Downtime Schedules to pause internet access at specific times.

Create personalized profiles for your family’s devices to start using tools like Parental Controls, downtime schedules and website blocking.

Learn how to set up user profiles.

Learn how to add devices to the profile.

Encourage balanced screen time for your tweens and teens by setting up a schedule that automatically blocks internet access during specific times, for selected profiles.

Learn how to set up a downtime schedule.

See how to set up a specific bedtime.

Keep your child’s online experience age-appropriate by preventing access to specific websites for different profiles.

See our step-by-step guidance for blocking websites.

Encourage balanced screen time for your child by setting up Time-outs that temporarily pause internet access on the devices you choose. You can also set up security levels and block specific websites to support a safer, age-appropriate online experience.

See our full guide to set up parental controls in the Navigate Companion app.

To help your family balance screentime, you can monitor and manage your family’s mobile data usage by signing in to MyRogers.

Learn more about managing your mobile data.

Use Apple’s Family Sharing to enable parental controls right on your device. This makes it easy for you to limit screen time, add purchase and content restrictions, and track your teen’s location.

Visit Apple.com for a step-by-step guide on Apple’s Family Sharing.

Enable Google’s FamilyLink on Android devices like Samsung, Pixel and Motorola to create parental controls on your device. This makes it easy for you to limit screentime, add purchase and content restrictions, and track your child’s location.

Visit Google.com for a step by step guide on Google’s Family Link.

Use Motorola’s app, Family Space, to manage your child’s device and track their location, facilitating productive, safe and healthy digital interactions with their devices.

Visit Motorola.com for a step-by-step guide on Motorola’s Family Space.

With Rogers Xfinity TV you can access content ratings and age appropriateness scores through Common Sense ratings and our Parental Guide. You’ll also be able to limit access to content through our Safe Browse, set up purchase restrictions, lock specific channels and content, as well as set up limited access at certain times.

See our full guide to set up Rogers Xfinity TV controls.

Family Pairing is a parental control feature on TikTok where you link your account to your child’s to enable controls, such as daily screen time limits, Restricted Mode, and direct message settings.

Visit TikTok’s Family Pairing Resource for a step-by-step guide.

Use TikTok’s privacy settings to make your child’s accounts private so other users can’t see their posts, turning off comments on videos, and control who can direct message them.

Visit TikTok’s resource on account privacy settings to learn more.

Privacy settings on Snapchat can allow you to control who contacts you and can view your posts, who can view your location, and who can find you through Snapchat’s Discover feature.

Visit Snapchat’s resource on privacy settings to learn how to set them up.

Supervision is a set of tools that parents can use to help support their child under 18. Parents can set time limits, enable sleep mode, see how much time their child spends on the app and see which accounts they’re following, and view their privacy settings.

Visit Instagram.com to find more information on Parental Supervision and how to set it up.

Private accounts allow users to control who has access to their account and content, while public accounts can be viewed and followed by anyone.

See Instagram’s resource to make your child’s account private.

Comments can be turned off for individual posts. When you do so, any comments currently under the post will be hidden.

Visit Instagram’s step-by-step guide to learn how to turn off comments.

Restricted mode is a control you can use through the Family Link app, which limits videos with potentially mature content.

Visit Youtube’s Help Center to learn how to turn Restricted Mode on or off.

With YouTube Kids, parents can decide the content level setting and whether their child can use the search function in the app. There are specific content level settings for kids ages 8-12.

Visit YouTube Kids to learn more about the benefits and controls available.

Sign in to your child’s Epic Games accounts using the Epic Account Portal to modify controls like voice chat permission, filtering mature language, requiring a pin to add friends and much more.

Visit Epic Games resource to see the full suite of controls you can enable through your Epic Games account.

On Discord, you can block direct messages and users to ensure your child is safe.

Visit Discord’s support page to learn how to enable these controls.

Roblox Parental Controls settings allow you to make changes to your child’s account, including restricting content and preventing chatting or engaging with unknown contacts.

Visit Roblox’s page on Parental Controls to learn about the capabilities of Roblox’s Parental Controls.