Hulu is an ad-supported on-demand live TV show and movies streaming platform running for more than a decade. It is among the top and biggest streaming services in the United States, besides Amazon and Netflix, with over 40 million customers.

Even though the Hulu streaming service has some excellent children’s content engaging screen time of kids, there is a lot of inappropriate content. Such as 18+ Television shows and movies containing profanity, nudity, violence, drug use, and more. All these contents on the Hulu account are not safe and compatible for kids.

Therefore, Hulu offers to set up parental control features that provide R-rated content restrictions for kids and keep them safe.

With the integration of Hulu parental controls, available through the Hulu account management page, parents can create Hulu profiles for kids and set up pin protection to manage their children’s material exposure and make Hulu kid-friendly. However, compared to Netflix’s parental control and other parental control apps, Hulu is way behind. 

In this blog, we’ll explain how to set up Hulu parental controls in detail.

Parental Controls features available on Hulu?

Hulu provides some basic parental control features for your kids that restrict access to inappropriate content. The best thing is that everything is quite easy to set up.

Here are the two key parental control functions that Hulu provides:

Kids profile

The parental controls on Hulu enable parents to establish a child’s profile in order to block out harmful content and have total control over the content restriction.

Parents can access the features through Hulu’s parental control settings, where you can also adjust the age of all profiles in Hulu’s parental controls settings. As a result, inappropriate content will be automatically blocked in the Hulu profiles.

Pin Protection

In Hulu’s parental controls, you can also set PIN Protection, which requires a PIN to view non-kids Profiles or create new ones.

The most recent parental controls update includes specific PINs that restrict children from switching between kids and adult profiles.

How to Set Parental Control on Hulu?

Compared to other parental control apps, it is relatively easy to set up Hulu parental controls. The Hulu Parental control feature includes setting a child profile and pin protection.

Setting up a kids profile in Hulu ( using website)

Follow the steps to set up a kid profile.

• Open Hulu’s official website and get logged in with your Hulu account.
• In the top-right corner, click your name, then choose Manage Profiles.
• Click the Add Profile option to create a new profile.
• Enter the profile name and birth date. 
• Toggle kids option to ON.
• Click Create profile option, and a child profile is created.

Setting up a kids profile in Hulu ( using mobile: ios/android)

Follow the steps to set up a kids profile in Hulu parental controls

• Open Hulu’s mobile app and get logged in with your Hulu account.
• Click the Account option and select your profile name
• Click the New Profile option to create a new profile.
• Enter the profile name and birth date 
• Toggle kids option to ON.
• Click Create profile option, and a child profile is created.
• Setting up a PIN in Hulu (website / mobile app )

Follow the steps to set up PIN protection in Hulu parental controls.

• Open Hulu’s official website and get logged in with your Hulu account.
• Choose Account / Manage Profiles option.
• Switch/Toggle the action you want:

1. 1. Turn it on to activate the PIN.
   2. Turn it off to deactivate the PIN.
   3. To update your PIN, go to Manage PIN.

• Type your password.
• If you want to update your PIN, enter the new PIN and click Save Changes.

If you update or deactivate PIN Protection in the future, you have to enter your password. Users are requested to enter the PIN to switch to all non-kids profiles for content restriction.

Can we set up screen time monitoring in Hulu?

Screen time monitoring parental control features cannot be exactly set using the Hulu app. However, parents can use device settings to monitor the screen time if the child is using Hulu app from a smartphone or tablet. 

For iOS devices:

• Go to Settings, select Screen Time, and then App Limit.
• Select Hulu from the list of apps and click Add Limit.
• Configure the app’s screen limit.
• After that, press Add.

For android devices:

• Choose Digital Wellbeing and Parental Controls from the Settings menu.
• Select App timers.
• Choose Hulu from the list of applications and set the screen limit for Hulu from the drop-down box.

Digital wellbeing and parental controls features are available on google pixel phones, android one devices, and other limited devices.

Conclusion

This article has explained everything parents need to know about Hulu parental controls and how to set up parental controls in Hulu. As parents, we must still use parental controls on these video applications to protect our children and restrict access to age-inappropriate content at a young age.

Hulu’s parental controls simplify children using a Hulu profile to watch content suitable for their age group. With parental device controls and other parental control apps, these features allow parents to be certain that their children watch movies in a secure environment.

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