sep 29, 2025 - Parental Controls

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We’re rolling out parental controls globally in ChatGPT to help families guide how ChatGPT works in their homes. Available starting on the web today, mobile soon.

To set up parental controls, a parent or guardian sends an invite to their teen to connect accounts. After the teen accepts, the parent can manage the teen’s settings from their own account. Teens can also invite a parent to connect.

Once a teen is connected to a parent’s account, they automatically receive additional content protections, such as reduced graphic content and viral challenges. Parents will have the option to turn this setting off if they choose, but teen users cannot make changes.

Parents don’t have access to their teen’s conversations, except in rare cases where our system and trained reviewers detect possible signs of serious safety risk, parents may be notified — but only with the information needed to support their teen’s safety. Parents can choose if they’d like to be contacted by email, SMS, push notification, or all three.

Parents can adjust certain features, set time limits, and add safeguards that work for their family including:

Set quiet hours, or specific times when ChatGPT can’t be used.

Turn off voice mode, to remove the option to use voice mode in ChatGPT.

Turn off memory, so ChatGPT won’t save and use memories when responding.

Remove image generation, so ChatGPT won’t have the ability to create or edit images.

Opt out of model training, so their teen’s conversations won’t be used to improve models powering ChatGPT and Sora.

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