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Q: iOS 10 restrictions

My son upgraded his iPod to iOS 10 yesterday and now has access to image and video bing searches within iMessage.  I've made all the age changes in the Restrictions but they don't limit the bing image search in iMessage.  How can we filter\restrict web content in iMessage (and any other core apps with web content access)?  It also doesn't seem like iMessage can be turned off.  There are younger children using ipods and ipads and we should be able to protect them.

iPod touch (6th generation), iOS 10, Restrictions

Posted on Sep 14, 2016 8:41 AM

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Q: iOS 10 restrictions

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  • by lllaass,

    lllaass lllaass Sep 14, 2016 9:12 AM in response to Alberghene
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    Sep 14, 2016 9:12 AM in response to Alberghene

    You can prevent use of Messages (and FaceTime) by signing out of them in Settings and then set the Restriction to NOT allow changes to accounts

     

    For the searches do yo mean that the Messages contains a link to Bing searches?

    Can you open a site in the search

  • by Alberghene,

    Alberghene Alberghene Sep 14, 2016 11:51 AM in response to lllaass
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    Sep 14, 2016 11:51 AM in response to lllaass

    I also figured out how to prevent the use of Messages doing that, thank you.  But I want to allow the use, just restrict the web content.  When you go to add a picture or video to a text you can search within the app for web content (images & videos) which I think our coming from bing.  But blocking safari or even bing.com in the restrictions settings doesn't prevent this.  I called Apple support today and the tech told me there's no ability in iOS 10 to restrict web content from Messages or other iOS core apps

     

    Maybe they'll add the ability or someone will come up with a hack...