# Parental controls and a profile for everyone

An IPTV line can carry thousands of channels and films, not all of them for children. Aina lets you lock what should be locked, give children a profile of their own, and keep each person’s favourites and Continue watching apart.

Updated 2026-10-25. By the Aina IPTV team. https://ainaiptv.com/parental-controls/

![Aina on a television in the family room: the home screen with continue watching](https://ainaiptv.com/assets/tv-home-en-1920-C1kJoSEP.webp)

## Lock any category with a PIN

- Settings, then Parental controls: choose a four-digit PIN, then switch on a lock for any category of Live TV, Movies or Series. They are grouped by kind, since providers reuse names such as “Documentary” across all three.
- A locked category disappears from every list, the guide, Search and Home, and a title filed under several categories is hidden if any of them is locked.
- Enter the PIN to see them; they lock again by themselves as soon as Aina leaves the screen, and Lock now locks them on the spot.
- After five wrong PINs, Aina waits before it accepts another, so guessing is slow.

## A profile for each child

Make a child’s profile and choose, category by category, what it may see: Live TV, Movies and Series each have their own list. Everywhere in the app, that profile shows those categories and nothing else, and leaving it, or changing profiles from it, asks for the parental PIN.

## A profile for everyone in the house

- Up to six profiles for each subscription, each with its own letter and colour.
- Each keeps its own favourites, Continue watching, history, recent searches and reminders, so one person’s half-watched series never crowds another’s Home.
- Choose who is watching from Settings, from the button on Home on a phone or tablet, or from the side menu on a television.
- On Apple TV, each person signed in to the television (Settings, then Users and Accounts) gets Aina to themselves: their own subscriptions, profiles, Continue watching on the Top Shelf, and purchase.

## Nothing slips out to the home screen

What Aina puts on a television’s home screen, the Play Next row and its own row on Google TV and the Top Shelf on Apple TV, never comes from a locked category, even while it is unlocked in the app, nor from one whose name says it is for adults: that screen is seen by whoever is in the room.

> **Good to know**: The PIN is kept on the device and is never sent anywhere. If it is forgotten, Settings, then Delete all my data, starts the app afresh on that device.

## Questions and answers

### Can I hide adult channels on IPTV?

Yes. Lock the categories that hold them in Settings, then Parental controls; they disappear from every list until the PIN is entered, and lock again when you leave the app.

### Does a child’s profile need the PIN to leave?

Yes, once a parental PIN is set. Without one, the profile’s page says to set it first.

### Do profiles cost extra?

No. Profiles and parental controls come with every subscription you add, at no extra cost.

## Read next

- [Every feature](https://ainaiptv.com/features/)
- [Apple TV](https://ainaiptv.com/apple-tv/)
- [Android TV and Google TV](https://ainaiptv.com/android-tv/)
- [Multi-view](https://ainaiptv.com/multi-view/)