Roblox retired its parent PIN. Steam retired Family View. Xbox screen time is not on the console, and Minecraft has no controls of its own at all. Most of the advice online still says otherwise, which is why this exists: verified instructions, the date each was checked, and an honest account of what every setting fails to do.
You do not need all 23 of these. Describe who lives here and what they use, in your own words, and Haven will pick the ones that apply and put them in the order worth doing them.
Haven chooses from the guides below and orders them. It never writes the instructions — those are checked by a person and dated, because a made-up menu path is worse than no guide at all.
Genuinely strong controls now — but almost everything written about Roblox before 2026 is wrong, including the parent PIN everyone tells you to set.
Steam Families replaced both Family Sharing and Family View. If a guide tells you to set a Family View PIN, it is describing software that no longer exists.
Solid controls, in the wrong place: the settings parents most want are in a phone app and on the web, not on the console in front of them.
Good presets and a genuinely useful new phone app — but the presets are broad age buckets, and the default one still allows more than most parents expect.
The simplest set-up of any console, with one catch: the limits parents most want are only in the phone app, not on the console.
Under-13 accounts are locked down automatically until a parent consents — which surprises parents in both directions.
Minecraft has no parental controls of its own. Everything runs through Microsoft Family Safety, which is why parents hunt through its menus and find nothing.
Parental controls only arrived here in 2026, and they depend entirely on your teenager agreeing to link with you.
The strongest device controls available — and the easiest to set up in a way that quietly does nothing, because of one mistake almost everybody makes.
Family Link is capable and free, and the protection stops at the edge of Chrome and the Play Store.
The honest answer nobody gives you: on a district-managed Chromebook you control almost nothing, and no amount of setting things up at home will change that.
Works well, and has one hole big enough to walk through: the web filter only applies to Edge.
Among the easiest to lock down properly, provided you set the one PIN that stops a child stepping out of their own profile.
Worth fifteen minutes as a backstop, and never worth relying on. Modern browsers route around it without anyone trying.
A CROS technician will work through every device in your house with you, and leave your household set up properly.
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Social & chat
YouTube
Two different things share the name "parental controls" here, and only one of them actually holds.
TikTok
Family Pairing is real and useful, and your teenager can unlink it whenever they like.
Instagram
Teen Accounts changed the defaults for the better. Supervision on top of that is thinner than parents expect, and either side can end it.
Snapchat
Family Center shows you who your teen talks to, deliberately never what they say — and you have to be their friend on the app first.
Discord
Family Centre reports on who and how much, never on what. Nothing here sees inside a server, and for younger children that is the whole problem.
WhatsApp
A genuinely locked-down account type exists now — but only for under-13s, and only as a new account, not a layer over an existing one.
Reddit
There is no parental control here at all. Any guide describing a Reddit family mode is describing something that does not exist.