How do I block YouTube Shorts on my child's iPhone?

How do I block YouTube Shorts on my child's iPhone? Shorts live inside the YouTube app and on youtube.com, so you close both doors: the app under a downtime window, and the site on your block list.

SimpleSentinel's web filter runs on your own allow and block lists, per child, on every device that child uses, so youtube.com stays closed in Safari and inside other apps. A downtime window shields the YouTube app on the schedule you set, and a one-tap pause closes it right now. Siri is denied under every window, so asking Siri for a video is not a side door.

One price, unlimited children and devices. 7-day free trial, billed by Apple.

The short version

✓ Web filtering with a list you control

Allow the web freely, limit adult sites, allow only sites you approve, or block it entirely, with your own allow and block lists. Under a restricted mode SimpleSentinel also switches Siri off on the child's device, closing a commonly overlooked back door to the Web.

✓ Multiple downtime windows

Apple's Screen Time gives you one downtime a day. SimpleSentinel gives you as many named windows as you need per child, school hours and bedtime both, each on the days you pick, with a heads-up chime before each one starts.

✓ Pause their phone with one tap

From your phone, pause a child's device right now: a Downtime pause keeps their usual allowances, a Full pause closes everything. It lands in seconds, even mid-game, and Resume brings it back just as fast.

What still works during a lock

Calls to and from you keep working. Apple keeps the Phone app reachable no matter what. Your emergency alarm and a No Ignore message still reach the screen. A pause stays until you lift it, through restarts and through a scheduled downtime window. SimpleSentinel never reads what your child types, watches or browses.

Pricing

Founding Family (First 1,000 Families)

7-day free trial. Unlimited children and devices.

$9.99/mo

or $99.99/yr

  • About 28 cents/day for every device & child.

  • Your price never goes up as long as you stay subscribed.

Regular Price

7-day free trial. Unlimited children and devices.

$16.99/mo

or $149.99/yr

  • About 41 cents/day for every device & child.

  • Compare to A locked-down phone @ $1,000/yr per child.

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