Parental controls and spending limits work alongside family management and play time controls to help you manage your child’s activity on PS5 and PlayStation™Network (PSN).

In order to set parental controls, you will need your own account for PlayStation Network and an account for each child. If you set up the child accounts, you will automatically be the family manager. If someone else sets up the child accounts, they can appoint you as a “guardian” to enable you to set parental controls and spending limits.

When setting parental controls, remember to adjust the system settings to prevent children from changing parental controls.

PlayStation 5 parental controls

Parental controls on PS5 allow you to restrict child account access to network features, applications, and devices: 

• Preset restriction level
  This setting will adjust all of the parental controls for a child account. Select from presets for:
  Late Teens or Older
  Early Teens
  Child

• Set age rating levels for games, Blu-ray™, and DVD
  Games and videos are rated by age level to help parents figure out whether the content is appropriate for their child. 

• Set play time restrictions
  Play times give family managers (and adult family members who are set as guardians) the ability to set limits on when, and for how long, each child can access PS5 and PS4 consoles.

• Restrict communication and user-generated content
  Prevent child accounts from communicating with other players. This setting also restricts viewing content created by other players such as videos, images, and text created by other users.

  Note: Child accounts can request an exception to use communication features in a specific game. 

• Allowed Games
  If your child tries to start a game or communicate with another player but is blocked by parental controls, they can then request that you make an exception. You'll receive an email request to allow the game. This menu allows you to manage a child’s allowed games.

• Set monthly spending limits 
  If you set a spending limit for a child account, we will let that child spend up to that amount each month on PlayStation Store. The funds are taken from the family manager’s wallet.
  
  Please note, if you are a “guardian” but not the family manager, let the family manager know if you make any changes to spending limits. If you are the family manager, be aware that anyone you appoint as guardian can change the spending limits you have created.

• Restrict use of Internet Browser
  

• Restrict use of PlayStation® VR
  PlayStation® VR is not for use by children under 12 years.