How to Block Porn from an iPhone

Last Updated: October 7, 2022

If you have kids at home or someone else aside from yourself uses your iPhone, blocking explicit websites and ads will protect you and other users from seeing offensive images. Restricting adult contents can also spare your iPhone from malwares and viruses that are rampant on these kinds of websites. Restricting access to these kinds of contents will provide a much safer browsing experience for anyone who uses your phone.

Steps

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Access your iPhone’s settings. Tap the gear icon from the Springboard to open the iPhone’s general settings menu.^{[1]
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Research source} Here, all the customizable options for your iOS device can be found.
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Open your phone’s general settings. Scroll down to the middle of the Settings screen and tap “General” to show all your phone’s generic options, like the device details, network, and security settings.

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Enable restrictions. Tap “Restrictions” from the General settings to open the different device access options of the iPhone.
- Tap “Enable Restrictions” at the top of the screen and enter a four-digit pin.^{[2]
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  Research source} This will be your password for setting up the restriction options of your iPhone. This way, only you can set the limitations on your device.
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Block porn from iPhone. Scroll down the Restrictions settings screen and tap “Websites” under the Allowed Contents section to choose what kind of websites you’d allow to be accessed on your iPhone.^{[3]
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- Inside Websites, tap “Limit Adult Content,” and your iPhone should now block porn websites from your being browsed on the device.
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Block specific porn websites. If you have a specific porn site that you want to block, move down the Websites settings screen and tap “Add a Website” under the Never Allow section.
- Type in the web address or URL you want to block on the pop up menu, and no one will ever be able to visit that website using your iPhone.

Community Q&A

Question

How do I block porn email?

WikiWiki01

Community Answer

Try using spam filters.
Question

How do I block porn text messaging?

Living Concrete

Top Answerer

You cannot block sexting on an iPhone.