Unable to manage child's parental controls in Family Sharing

I am the parent/ organizer for my family sharing but it doesn’t show any options or show anything that I can make any changes to my children’s accounts for any parental controls. So when I set up my account on my sons iPhone, I haven’t had any access to it so I’m stuck trying to figure it out to get myself to have parental controls because I didn’t have a iPhone at the time but now I have one. My sons account isn’t on my family sharing account and he has all my parental controls. I want to fix that

and i don’t know how. I tried to reset his iPhone and mine. Still can’t set myself as a parent and organizer. ??

Posted on Nov 7, 2026 9:54 PM

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brbo

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Nov 7, 2026 11:07 PM in response to larrina176

Re: "Unable to manage child's parental controls in Family Sharing"

We'd like to help, but can not guess which iPhone models and software versions are in use.

Eg: Apple made changes to parental controls with iOS 27. In families where everyone's iPhone has iOS 27 installed, there's a new user guide (link below):

"Everything you need to know about parental controls and setting up your child’s iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch".

https://support.apple.com/guide/child-safety/r1jy0rk9vfz8/web

Tip: See the "Table of Contents" for an overview of all the "how to" articles included.