We’ve been told by Plex that an account-level disable is coming… But it has been a long time since they said that & nothing really yet.
You CAN disable it on each client by going to the Search Settings when you do a search. In one of the client releases changelog I saw something along the lines of “Only show selected sources in More Ways To Watch” which should mean that if you choose nothing or just some obscure streaming source that doesn’t have anything you are looking for it should show nothing… But that is still coming for most devices I believe.
So this is easy. All Managed Users don’t see the Discover at all, their search results don’t show More Ways To Watch & Watchlist can only add things that are in your library. The Watchlist WILL still show the streaming services that it is available on, but only of the things that they can already watch on your server & your server will be listed 1st so though it’s not perfect by any means, it should be good for kids unless they have to click on everything in site, in which case they probably never are able to watch anything anyway.
The links to the streaming services only take them to the app if it’s installed already & they still have to be logged in, so if that’s a concern you should be comfortable that they can only get to streaming services they can get to by going out of Plex on that device anyway
EDIT:
In the it says:
- “Only display preferred services on ‘Watch from these locations’ other item”
Nothing on the Android or Android Beta still though
