PlayStation Safety for parents

Learn how to tailor your child’s experience and help them keep themselves safe online.

What can my child do on PlayStation?

Once your child has an account, they can make friends online, play games with other people, chat (by text, and voice), send content such as screenshots and video clips using messages, join online communities dedicated to specific games or subjects and update their What’s New feed with posts.

What safety tools can I use to manage my child’s experience?

By setting up your account as a family manager and creating a separate account for each child with their date of birth, you can tailor their online experience according to their age and maturity.

You can use the PlayStation Family app to set parental controls from your mobile device.

Each child account comes with parental controls that let you manage their experience. You can manage various settings, such as what features your child can access, whether they can exchange photos and videos with other users, whether they can shop on PlayStation™ Store and how much they can spend each month.

Set up child accounts

To create accounts for your children, you must have an account. Once you have your own account, you can create accounts for each child.

Each child needs a separate child account for our online services.

Set parental controls

Parents can configure the settings of child accounts through parental controls. 

As a family manager, you can set the following parental controls on each child account:

  • Restrict communication with other players
  • Restrict viewing content created by other players 
  • Set playtime controls 
  • Set spending limits 
  • Restrict access to web browser

Monitor your child's linked services

View and manage your child's access to third-party services and apps that they've linked their accounts to.

Prevent your child from changing parental controls

To prevent your child from creating a new account, which doesn’t have parental controls on it, you can:

  • disable new user creation and guest login
  • set a login passcode on your account
  • set a system restriction passcode.

To add an extra layer of security, you can activate a setting called ‘Require Password at Checkout’ on your account. This feature prevents anyone using your family manager account to make a PlayStation Store purchase without the account password. 

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Talk to your child about online safety

Make sure you understand the Code of Conduct and explain it to your children. It shows how they should behave and how others should behave towards them.

We created the PlayStation Rules for children to read. They summarize key points of the Code of Conduct for them.

Make sure your children know how to:

Need help? 

Contact our support specialists