Amazon Fire TV Stick: How to Activate and Configure Parental Controls

With the Amazon Fire TV Stick connected to the television, any member of the house has access to endless content of all kinds and some other option. Therefore, if you want to avoid possible problems due to inappropriate use, it is still not a bad idea to activate the parental controls. Thanks to them you will have more control over what can be seen, heard and even done.

Why use parental controls

Amazon Fire TV Stick:  Parental Controls

Parental controls on a device or any service are neither more nor less than a series of tools and options that allow parents or guardians to control and / or limit the use of technology to the rest of the user. These are especially designed for the smallest of the house.

Thanks to them, it is not simply about denying them access to certain content, but rather protecting them and preventing them from unintentionally taking actions that could end up being a problem. For example, activation of paid services, application purchases or the like.

In addition, of course, they also offer the possibility of preventing them from touching aspects of the configuration or deleting applications without realizing it, among other things. Hence, if there are little ones at home they are interesting to activate.

How to activate parental control on a Fire TV

Now that you know what the usefulness of parental controls is and you can imagine what they are used for on Fire TVs, let’s see what the activation process is. And then some additional details. To activate the controls on the Amazon Fire TV do the following:

  1. Turn on your TV and go to your Fire TV Settings
  2. Open the Preferences
  3. Select Parental Controls and press to activate them
  4. Then they will ask you to enter a PIN code , this will be the one that will have to be used every time you want to make a change or access a service, etc.
  5. Hit next and voila, you will have the active controls

As you can see, activating the use of these control and protection tools for children and other members of the family unit is very simple. Still, there are some additional details you should know. The former are related to Amazon’s own controls.

Once you have active parental controls on your Fire TV Stick you can make some extra adjustments that affect certain applications or services:

  • You can activate whether or not to require the PIN to make purchases on Amazon . This is recommended to do if there are little ones at home
  • Access to Prime Photos , if you use the Amazon photo storage service you can have to enter the PIN to see all the saved content
  • Age restriction . This option allows you to limit the content that will be seen depending on the age classification. In this way, nothing that can be for adults can be seen by the little ones if they do not enter the PIN
  • Lock on Amazon Music , in addition to all of the above, you can also set a filter for Amazon Music. This prevents songs with explicit lyrics from playing. To carry out this action, go to the Music application> Settings> Explicit filter and activate or deactivate there.

These Amazon Fire TV parental controls are logically complemented by the filters and controls themselves that other services already include on their part. For example, Netflix, which also allows you to create a PIN and set restrictions based on the type of profile and the age of those who use it.

However, although they are always helpful, it is best that all family members or people who live with us know how to act, what can be done, seen or heard. This will make it easier for everyone. But if not, here are the necessary tools to avoid problems.