A device like the Amazon Kindle can be your best ally if you have a child as a good instrument to try to start become fond of reading and enjoying different age-appropriate books, which will have a very small cost to you. Of course, be very careful because if you do not handle the situation as you should, it can cost you more than one dislike.
And is that A Kindle in the hands of a young child can be dangerous since, for example, you could buy books and charge them to the account you have associated, with the consequent cost in euros and space on your device. To do this today we are going to discover with a simple tutorial how activate parental control on your device, a tool, sometimes certainly useful.
First of all, in order to use this tutorial, we must have installed the firmware update 4.10, otherwise we will not be able to use this interesting tool.
Steps to follow to activate the parental control option on your Kindle device:
- On the home screen press the "Menu" button. Once the list of options appears select the one that appears as «Settings». In a few moments we will see all the available options
- If you have the correct firmware update, the option should appear on the third screen "Parental control"To start configuring this option on the right you should be able to activate the word "Set" that will allow us to configure the options of this parental configuration
- Once parental control is activated, we can choose which applications to block. We may restrict the use of the web browser, the Kindle Store, or archived content.
Without a doubt we are facing a really simple but very necessary process if we leave our Kindle in the hands of teenagers or young children. Sometimes it is too easy to access unwanted web content or to buy books, which can be a significant damage to our battered pockets.
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Source - Amazon.com