Turn Parental Controls On or Off in the Google Play Store on HTC One M8

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how to turn on and off parental controls in the Google Play Store on an HTC One M8.

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   To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the power button located on the top of the phone

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   Once the phone has been activated, we will see the lock screen

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   To unlock the phone, swipe the screen upwards.

   

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   Now we can see that the phone has been unlocked and we can see the home screen

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   At the bottom, we can see icons. It is in this section that we need to focus now, because we need to open up the applications folder. To do that, we need the icon located at the bottom of the home screen in the middle. It looks like a grid made up of white dots. Press down on this icon and it will open up our applications folder.

   

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   In this folder, we need to find the Google Play Store application

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   Its icon is a shopping bag with a colorful shape inside, and underneath, it says the words "Play Store". Press down on this icon and it will open up this application.

   

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   We now need the icon in the top left-hand corner of the screen

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   There are three horizontal lines. Press down on this icon, and it will open up a menu.

   

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   We want the "Settings" option

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   Press down on the word "Settings".

   

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   We have opened up our Settings menu

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   What we want to do is show how to turn on and off parental controls for this application. That means that we can control how easy it is for children to buy things or to avoid them accidentally purchasing things without consent. Press down on the option where it says "Parental controls" and "For apps and content in Google Play".

   

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   We now have the ability to turn it on and off

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   It is currently turned off. We can see this because it says the word "Off" and the slider icon is gray and switched to the left.

   

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   To change this, press down on the slider icon

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    This brings up the "Create content PIN" option

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    "You'll use this PIN to change settings for parental controls." Type a PIN in. Choose one a little more complicated than ours.

    

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    Press down on the word "OK"

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    Confirm your PIN, then press down on the word "OK" again

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    We can see that it is now turned on

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    This concludes our tutorial on how to turn on and off parental controls in the Google Play Store on an HTC One M8

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