5 Ways to Block Porn Websites for Kids

• Part 1: How to Block Porn Websites on Win?
• Part 2: How to Block Porn Websites on Mac?
• Part 3: How to Block Porn Websites on iOS?
• Part 4: How to Block Porn Websites on Android with FamiKit?
• Part 5: How to Block Porn Websites on Android with PanSpy?

Part 1: How to Block Porn Websites on Win?

Actually, without installing any parental control apps on Windows computer, you can still find ways to block any porn websites with the following steps.

Step 1: To begin with, open the File Explorer and go to the Windows Directory. In most of the cases, it is “C:” drive.

Step 2: Go to Windows > System32 > Drivers >, etc., and look for the “Hosts” file.

Step 3: Select the Hosts file, right-click it, and open it with Notepad. Scroll all the way to the end of the file and press Enter.

Step 4: Now, type “127.0.0.1”, add a space and the URL of the website you wish to block. For instance, to block pornmate, type “127.0.0.1 www.pornmate.com”. In the same way, you can block other porn websites as well.

Part 2: How to Block Porn Websites on Mac?

For MacOS device, there is built-in parental control feature. With web restrictions turned on, you can limit access to adult websites automatically. Moreover, you can customize site access.

Step 1: Go to System Preferences > Parental Control and select the user account on which you wish to implement the restrictions.

Step 2: Enable the Parental Control option for the account and go to its “Web” tab. In some versions, it is listed as “Content” as well.

Step 3: From here, you can enable the website restrictions so that your Mac can block porn sites automatically.

Step 4: Furthermore, you can click on the “Customize” option and manually add the URL of the adult websites you wish to block.

Part 3: How to Block Porn Websites on iOS?

With Screen Time feature built in iOS device, parents can also find its way to block access to adult websites or customize site access. Remember to set password in case that you child may easily change the settings.

Step 1: Go to Settings >> Screen Time >> Content & Privacy Restrictions.

Step 2: On this page, tap on Content Restrictions >> Web Content.

Step 3: Select Limit Adult Websites and this will limit access to many adult websites automatically. If you want websites all specific allowed or restricted, you can tap on Add Website to enter the URL.

Part 4: How to Block Porn Websites on Android with FamiKit?

With FamiKit installed on kid’s Android, parents can remotely track browser history, block porn websites, customize site access and enable safe search. Besides, screen time management, location tracking, geofencing and safe social are available. For how to block porn websites on Android with FamiKit, simply follow the steps below.

Step 1: Go to Google Play Store to download and install FamiKit on kid’s Android device.

Step 2: Create an account with valid email address and sign in FamiKit on kid’s device. Select kid’s role to set up permissions required.

Step 3: Likewise, download and install FamiKit on parents’ device and sign in. Select parents’ role to start remotely tracking browser history and block websites for kids.

Go to Features >> Website Filter, parents can choose to block websites by categories such as Adult Content, Alcohol & Tobacco, Gambling, Games and more. Tap on Exception >> Add Exception, guardians can enter the URL to block it for kids. Also, you can check your kids' browsing history by referring to Browser History. Turn on Safe Search, FamiKit can detect risky words and prevent them from being searched on various browser.

Part 5: How to Block Porn Websites on Android with PanSpy?

PanSpy is a professional monitoring solution provider specializing in tracking and monitoring tools for smartphone users. It allows parents to monitor text messages, calls, current GPS location, Snapchat, WhatsApp and many more.

Features of PanSpy:

How to block porn websites with PanSpy monitoring app?

Step 1: Sign up PanSpy with valid email address and then refer to the email sent by PanSpy support to activate your account.

Step 2: Go to your kid’s Android and enter panspy.me on browser to download and install PanSpy app on it with permissions required fully authorized. For how it works, you can also refer to this page to set up it.

Step 3: After PanSpy app is successfully set up on target Android, now you can remotely access and control the device on PanSpy console panel which is available for both computer and mobile devices.

For blocking websites, simply refer to Website Filter on the left panel. Here you will find website categories and if you desire to block it by categories, just tap on Prevent.

If you would like to customize site access, simply tap on Exceptional >> Add Exceptional, enter the URL that you want to block, select the rule of Prevent and then tap on Add Exception to confirm it.

On PanSpy console panel, you can also access one’s browser histories by tapping on Browser History. Here you’ll find the URL, Visit frequency, Last visit time and whether it is bookmarked.

Summary

Above we organized 5 ways to block porn websites for kids in different platforms. Although it is important to equip digital devices with internet filtering, parents should also communicate with kids about the harms of porn and help to establish healthy online habit.