How to use restrictions in iTunes on your Mac or PC

If you share your Mac or computer with others but don’t want to share your paid application such as iTunes, you may use restrictions in iTunes on your Mac or PC. By enabling restrictions, you may block or limit certain features and services in iTunes on your computer, including access to clear content in the iTunes Store. With iTunes restrictions, you may stop others from accessing Podcasts, Internet radio, Apple Music, Apple Music Connect, Shared libraries and iTunes Store and iTunes U. Moreover, you may also prevent others from listening music with explicit content, watching movies or TV shows with specific ratings, downloading apps that have specific age ratings or reading books with clear content. Here, we will provide you a short guide that will help you to use iTunes restrictions.

How to set restrictions in iTunes on your computer

If you want to enable restrictions in iTunes on your Mac, you may easily do it by following the below given steps:

• Open “iTunes” on your Mac or Windows PC.
• On Mac, select iTunes > Preferences from the menu bar at the top of your computer screen.
• On Windows: Select Edit > Preferences from the menu bar at the top of the iTunes window.
• Switch to the Restrictions tab. If you downloaded iTunes from Mac Store, you will not see “Restrictions.”

• Now, select the items that you want to disable and restrict. Additionally, you may also set rating levels for movies, TV shows and apps using the menus to the right of these items.
• If you want to allow anyone to make changes to your restrictions, click the lock icon in the bottom-left corner of the window and enter the administrator password for your computer.
• If you later want to make changes to what you disable or restrict, click the lock icon and enter your password when you are asked.
• Click “OK” to confirm your settings.

This is how you may set restrictions in iTunes on your Mac or Windows PC. Moreover, if you download the iTunes from Microsoft Store, you may set restrictions by following the below given steps:

• On your Windows PC, open the Windows menu and go to all apps.
• Right click “iTunes” and then select More > “Run as administrator.”
• On the panel that appears, select the items that you want to disable and restrict.

• Moreover, you may also set rating levels for movies, TV shows and apps using the menus to the right of these items.
• If you want to allow anyone to make changes to your restrictions, click the lock icon in the bottom-left corner of the window and enter the administrator password for your computer.
• If you later want to make changes to what you disable or restrict, click the lock icon and enter your password when you are asked.
• Click “OK” to confirm your settings.

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