Parental control extensions for Chrome are a compelling option because, for the most part, you get the desired rich functionality for free. Some parental controls offer a unique and powerful combination of a mobile app and a Chrome extension that takes safe browsing for children to the new level and ensures all-round protection. If your Mac runs on macOS Mojave or older versions, there’s a built-in Parental Controls feature you can benefit from. To access the functionality, open System Preferences Parental Controls. You’ll be prompted to create a child account with parental controls if you haven’t done it before. So, first we will start by enabling Screen Time on macOS Catalina and then see how you can use it to set up parental control on your Mac. Enable Screen Time in macOS Catalina and Set Up Parental Controls. Open System Preferences on your Mac by clicking on the Apple menu at the top left corner of the screen and choosing System Preferences.

Okay so first off, this all happened right after I re-partitioned my mac disk (because I deleted the windows partition). And do bear in mind that it was the second time after I download windows. As in, I downloaded windows, uninstalled, installed and then uninstalled.

Okay so after clearing up what happened before the glitch started to happen,

I have a problem with the parental controls. My parents tried to set parental controls and after clicking, 'Create a new administrator account to replace this account for parental controls,' we set up everything, mainly it is because of the only allow certain apps to run. So, my parents pick the ones that they would like to only allow and for some reason, only certain apps that are ticked work. My parents allowed system preferences, chrome, safari, iBooks author, preview, QuickTime player, notes, iTunes, etc... And for some reason, out of all of it, only iBooks author worked. So we click 'Always allow' for system preferences or chrome and then, Chrome works but after a while or after a restart my Mac, Chrome says that it is not allowed. And for System Preferences, we click always allow and type it in and then we need to type it in twice. We typed it in, then tried to open it and it didn't work, we had to type it in one more time before it worked.

To sum it all up, parental control's function of 'Only allow certain apps' is currently not working well as only some of the selections were allowed and the rest were said to have been restricted even though it had not been. Plus, this only happened after I uninstalled windows and beforehand, it was working normally. I would like request for urgent help as I really wish this could be fixed.

Some methods I tried to fix:

Restart multiple times

Reset the parent's account

Continuously try to click always allow but still becomes restricted.

Specifications:

macOS High Sierra

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Version 10.13.4

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)

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Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory 16 GB 1867 MHz LPDDR3

Graphics Intel Iris Graphics 540 1536 MB

Storage: 408 GB available of 499.96GB (500GB Flash Storage)

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.4), MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Two Thu

Posted on Apr 17, 2018 5:01 AM