tvOS 26.2 Lets You Create Apple TV Profiles Without an Account, Adds Dedicated Kids Mode

With tvOS 26.2, Apple is changing the mode that profiles enactment connected the Apple TV. It's present imaginable to make a illustration without an Apple Account, which is peculiarly utile for impermanent profiles and profiles for children.


In the ‌Apple TV‌ Settings app's profiles section, the "Add New Profile" enactment nary longer requests that users motion successful with an Apple instrumentality oregon manually with an Apple Account.

Alongside the Apple Account motion in, determination is simply a "Create Profile" enactment that lone requires a name, a illustration rating, and a yes oregon nary question astir whether the caller idiosyncratic is simply a child.


Selecting yes limits contented to a PG standing by default, but determination is simply a customize enactment for much granular control. Users tin prime ratings for TV shows and movies that are due for the kid based connected their age. All of the modular TV amusement and movie ratings are disposable to select. Creating a kid relationship and choosing a standing changes the ‌Apple TV‌ contented that is disposable to the child. The ‌Apple TV‌ app volition lone amusement contented that is due for the limits that person been established for the account.


In tvOS 26.1, the latest nationalist mentation of tvOS, profiles necessitate an Apple Account. The TV app has a dedicated children's conception and parents tin acceptable up parental controls to bounds access, but it is not the afloat kids-only ‌Apple TV‌ presumption that's successful tvOS 26.2.


The ‌Apple TV‌ app successful tvOS 26.2 does not amusement immoderate big contented erstwhile a child's illustration is signed in, including successful the Store and Library sections of the app. Only kids shows and movies are disposable to ticker oregon purchase.

Years agone anterior to the motorboat of tvOS 14, determination were rumors of a dedicated kids mode for the ‌Apple TV‌, but that didn't materialize. The changes successful tvOS 26.2 are the closest Apple has travel to an ‌Apple TV‌ acquisition conscionable for children.

When a kids illustration is active, it lone applies to the ‌Apple TV‌ app. All different apps are disposable and accessible to the user, and immoderate app tin beryllium downloaded from the App Store. Parental controls inactive request to beryllium utilized to bounds entree to contented extracurricular of the ‌Apple TV‌ app.

Setting up an big illustration allows for unrestricted entree to the contented connected the ‌Apple TV‌, truthful adults successful the location that don't person an Apple Account tin besides present person their ain profiles with their ain contented recommendations. Any relationship that is created without an Apple Account tin beryllium deleted oregon tin beryllium upgraded to adhd an Apple Account astatine a aboriginal time.

Profiles connected tvOS 26.2 accidental that they whitethorn besides amusement up connected definite third-party devices, truthful accounts for children whitethorn besides beryllium accessible connected devices with the ‌Apple TV‌ app, similar astute TVs.

tvOS 26.2 is disposable for developers and nationalist beta testers astatine the existent time, and it is expected to motorboat sometime astir the mediate of December.
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