I have a 7 year old and I’d like to restrict things like horror films from her plex account but I do not see the option to do this. I have already limited her account to appropriate ratings but there are some that are still popping up that are technically PG rated but they are horror films.

I don’t think there’s any way to restrict access based on genre. Probably the best thing you can do is to add a Label to every movie you want to make available to your child, and restrict her access based on the label. In case you don’t know, you can edit multiple movies at once to add Labels, so …

The way I do that is by manually adjusting the content rating on those films which may technically be okay for the kids to see, but I don’t want them to. For example, they can see 12A and below so anything which may be a PG which I don’t want them to see (or they won’t be interested in) I put as a…

Here’s our support article on Restricting content by label and rating .

Is there an easier way by now to hide horror movies from the library? [image] beckfield: In case you don’t know, you can edit multiple movies at once to add Labels, so this isn’t as daunting as it sounds. Link seems broken. Is it still possible to edit multiple movies?

Yes it is. I am not able to fix the link but if you hover over an item and select the little circle in the upper left corner you can select multiple items when click the edit (the pencil icon on the tool bar that shows up once you select the multiple items. I have found that if i am editing a pi…

How do you restrict Genres?

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OttoKerner January 5, 2019, 4:54pm 7

Repaired link: [HowTo] Selecting multiple items for edit, playlist, etc.

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How do you restrict Genres?

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