How to Take Off My Mac Parental Controls

Mac OS X comes with a number of parental controls for users that do not have an administrator account. While the controls aren't particularly strong, they can limit which websites users visit, who they exchange email with and even what words they can look up in the dictionary and how long they can be on the computer. Only users with administrator access can change the parental controls for standard users on Mac.

Things You'll Need

• Administrator account

Instructions

1. Log in to an administrator account on your Mac. Select "Log out your user name" from the Apple menu if you do not have an administrator account. Click the administrator account from the list of available accounts after you have logged out of your own account and input the administrator's password. Click "Log in."

2. Open "System Preferences" in the Apple menu and click on "Accounts."

3. Click on the account you want to remove parental controls from and select the "Parental Control" tab.

4. Uncheck all of the boxes that parental controls are set for if you are using OS X 10.4. For OS X 10.5 and 10.6, uncheck the "Enable Parental Controls" box. (

References

• Tuaw: Mac 101: Parental Controls
• The Apple Blog: Kid Proofing a Mac With Parental Controls