Are you tired of protecting your child from game addiction or phone addiction? Application developers earn from creating engaging apps. But on the contrary, the same apps cause phone addiction in our children. As there is a problem, there is a solution as well. The Play Store has these parental control settings. Using these settings, you can hide any specific app or range of apps and prevent your children from using them.
How to hide apps from Play Store
If you hide apps from Play Store, your children cannot install them and hence cannot use them. Here is an easy method to hide apps from the Play Store.
Follow the following steps to hide the apps from the Play Store.
- Open your Play Store application.
- Search the application you want to hide from the Play Store
- Check out its rating on the Play Store.
- Come back to the homepage of the Play Store.
- Tap on your account icon available in the top right corner of the screen
- Tap on the ‘Settings’ on the list > Choose ‘Family.’
- Tap on the ‘Parental Control’ > Turn it on (It will ask you to create a Pin)
- Set the Pin > Re-enter the Pin
- Once done, now tap on ‘Apps and Games’
- It will ask you to choose among different rating ranges (Rated for 3+, Rated for 12+, Rated for 16+, Rated for 18+ or allow all, including unrated)
- Choose a lesser rating than the rating of the application you wish to hide.
- Save the rating range chosen, and it’s done.
Now when you search the application on Play Store, it won’t appear among the results.
How to unhide the applications from Play Store
Sometimes you may need to use certain apps. In that case, you can unhide the app from the Play Store. Follow the following steps to unhide the applications from Play Store
- Again go to the ‘Settings’ > Tap on ‘Family.’
- Open ‘Parental Control’
- Please turn it off (It will ask for the Pin)
- Enter the password you created
- And it’s done; now you can re-access the same application.
Protecting our children from phone and game addiction is challenging in this technology-driven world. There are abundant applications on the Play Store to which your child may get easily addicted. In that case, it is wise to hide the apps from the Play Store, so they can not install them in the first place.
