You must indeed be very new to Plex.
The Plex Pass you were almost willing to pay for, would give you Plex’s version of parental control… “Plex Home.”
Shared Libraries can also achieve what you are looking for, without a Plex Pass.
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Hi,
i just bought a lifetime plex pass. I cant find the parental control view or anything like that…
Is there a kind of documentation for set up of “parental control”
found it 
I agree with what people are saying in regards to having an added feature such as a simple checkbox which would allow us to password protect specific libraries even though we already have the ability to set up individual users with individual pin codes. That second layer of authentication or “two-factor authentication” would be more of a peace of mind and probably not that difficult implement. I say that because I own an IT & application development company and there are much more complex features already within Plex.
What I’m about to explain I’m sure a good majority of Plex users know about and utilize already so I apologize to those seasoned Plex users for explaining the features my family uses in simplistic detail…I imagine it could be a boring read. On the other hand, I hope it helps shed some light on the power we already posess inside Plex as it currently stands.
I have thousands of movies and tv shows on my Plex server and have been using the application for many years now. I have 4 children, 3 boys and a girl ages 9, 7, 4 & 1. I have several user accounts to control content ratings, one for each of my family members and an administrative account which I use for adding categories and performing updates, along with other maintenance-related tasks. My wife and my account each have 4 digit pin codes which allow us to have a more “tailored” feel to the experience…for instance my wife and I obviously like different shows and I do not want her “On Deck” Vampire Diaries on my interface LOL … while at the same time she would rather not see my “How the Universe Works” space stuff. It allows us to keep track of what we’re watching, resume, etc. and works outstandingly. My kids each have their own accounts, yes even my 1 yo daughter, because her older brothers would rather not have “Baby Einstein” popping up. Furthermore, each account allows for custom tailored libraries and even more granularity within each of those. Each user account maintains the same theme by allowing the admin to configure very specific permissions such as only allowing specific genre, MPAA ratings, etc. Unfortunately, I have found the user settings to flag specific genre and MPAA ratings severely lacking in consistency because the Plex scanner does not work well at all to properly categorize our entire library despite the fact that all of our media is named correctly, recognized by each of the various “mainstream” agents and categorized properly. To correct the inconsistency I have created separate folders called “animated kid flix” or “kids tv” as well as “kids movies” or “PG-13” for my older son, “bluray”, “tv shows”, etc. Each of these folders I make into a Library and from there I use the individual user accounts to flag what categories are appropriate and accessible by each user. It works well and is an easy to implement one-time configuration because let’s face it, how many different media libraries would someone really need and how often would they need to be changed? As such, we also have family photos and videos I can categorize similarly so the kids do not have access to, for instance, my wife and my honeymoon photos preventing access to our personal & sometimes very private media from anyone other than us. In addition to that, since we still have the ability to flag individual Libraries for access within each user account we remain able to allow our kids to have access to all of the photos and videos which are uploaded from our family events, trips and each of their individual tablets or phones. One thing I have not done which I have had on my to-do list for some time, in regards to family videos and pictures, is to give my extended family access to those Libraries allowing our loved ones and friends access to our memories without having to upload everything to social media. There’s nothing happier than a grandparent who has realtime, on-demand access to their grandchildren
On a separate yet similar note, setting the kids devices to auto upload photos & videos from their tablets & phones give my wife and I another way of monitoring what they’re doing when we’re not around because it’s all synchronized automatically Taking into consideration the unrestricted, mostly unfiltered and unbridled access most children & young adults have on the Internet now, monitoring what they’re watching as well as taking pictures or videos of is an unquestionable necessity.
Again, I do believe there should be some sort of “two-factor” second layer of security in case a child for someone who should not have access to a specific library somehow gains access to the library. If that happened they would be asked a second pin code (hopefully different) in order to move further or any deeper into that user’s libraries. I would also suggest having the ability to encryption on specific media on the disk drive at rest and in transit to ensure the data is not compromised further … that may seem a bit over the top but my company specialized in cyber security, cyber terrorism, and data protection as well as recovery so to me it’s a no-brainer.
In the end, having a second layer of protection would put many minds at ease knowing that redundancy is in place just in case we accidentally leave our account up on an Xbox, DVR, or a phone or tablet. I would really like to see Plex implement this feature in the near future.
Thanks for reading if you made it to the end of this post. Hopefully I clarified or helped someone with the book I just wrote. Haha…
J Burgess
aka Tripaphonic
If ya make someone an account (add a friend) they have axcess to all that ya share.
But say ya make an account for the kids, ya can add a new folder, copy the movies there they allowed to watch (or if ya alrdy have a special kids-folder), and in settings for that account only allow that folder. Also meens if have other accounts ya need to uncheck that new folder from them, unless ya want them to see it. So, not that hard to have a “restricted” area for the kids or anyone else.
Had been nice though, if they could add support for to use shortcuts.
To have a folder with only shortcuts to movies, or whatever ya wanna share in that folder. 
It’s effing stupid that there is no parental/password control per library…how can I stash my stuff without something like that? Come on get with the 2010’s…LOL
@Plexhilarated said:
You must indeed be very new to Plex.
The Plex Pass you were almost willing to pay for, would give you Plex’s version of parental control… “Plex Home.”
Shared Libraries can also achieve what you are looking for, without a Plex Pass.
I have plex pass, but I’m not finding any sort of parental controls. I’m actually looking for the reverse. Everyone in my house is too old to want to watch things like Bob the Builder. Still, I don’t like to delete things. So I was trying to find a way to hide TV series and movies, and still have them available for guests.
@hiquest said:
I was just wondering what with DLNA now enabled and the awesome choice of Plex clients to access our Media server do we have an option to password protect movies to stop allowing my kids to watch.
Now that i have it running on all our apple and samsung TV devices i’m worried that my 2 and 5 year olds will have a field day and start watching movies not within their age group not to mention delete them.I’m no Plex Wizard and have tried looking through previous forums but couldnt find anything relating to password protecting movies with a pin number.
If my media server has read only access to my media will this prevent anyone being able to successfully delete it from the client end?
Any chance a pin number for specific movies will be considered for a future release as a toggle switch for those that have no interest.
thanks for a great product.
Sad to say, but i have a secondary plex account running on a seperate server in a VM. All our normal stuff is in the account and a secondary plex server that runs a kid friendly version with a second plex pass account. All of it points to the google drive via a mount, so no headaches with content.
This is easy to do, but requires Plex Pass.
In your library, go to your top-level media view. Click on the “edit pencil” for a specific media item, then go to Sharing, then add a tag. For example, I have a tag called “kids”. Create a managed user, add the appropriate libraries, then under “restrictions”, put the “kids” tag (or whatever you want) for each library.
That’s it. Works perfectly. You can use multiple tag combinations if you want to fine-tune user access. I don’t rely on the Ratings - I don’t trust that they are correct or that all of my media has them.
There is an absolute need for password protecting individual folders. Case in point. I want to set up auto backup of my pictures from my phone. My Girlfriend wants to do the same. I don’t want her to see my folder, and more importantly, she doesn’t want me to see hers. as the administrator, I always have access to her content. she should be able to password protect her folder. The main TV access to the Plex server is in an always logged in state. I want all of my content available all the time, but want a sub-step of protection on those certain folders with the individual users controlling their respective passwords. It is silly that I would need to, in my own home have multiple users for myself, needing to manage all that as a workaround for a simple function.
I am stunned that here I am checking back YEARS later and this simple feature hasn’t been implemented…Am I missing something? Why can’t we simply make a passord for a folder/movie/show/file ? A simple check box and 4 digit password option or something would be all that is needed…Whats going on here?
WOW!!! The outcry for such a small simple feature, for so many years, and not only is it not implemented yet, it is simply ignored with no response from the Dev team whatsoever. That is pretty pathetic of the Plex team!
I get that people have shown some work arounds and other bullcrap, but it does not work fore everyone.
I want to be able to just put a pin on a certain library so my kid doesn’t grab the remote and put on some tentacle monster raping some poor school girl, thus horrifying and traumatizing my poor grandparents who just called over for a cup of coffee.
I dont want to have to sign in and out, in and out just to limit access to one freaking library, but I also wont all my porn in one place and available for me to watch where ever I am.
Make it a plex pass feature. I dont care. If only for that one feature, I will buy the ■■■■ out of the plex pass so freakin fast.
Get it done guys!!!
Guys, everyone is waiting but as long as everyone is using plex and pays for it, why should thex improve?
u guys aren’t really paying attention… this feature IS available with plex pass. buy it.
I suppose you’re referring to Plex Home?
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/plex-pass/plex-home/
Just to avoid not mentioning it 
Just to update this thread again… Any progress? I am using PlexConnect via AppleTv and this is a feature worth adding. I have my series, movies, documentaries etc all in folders and as separate menu/library items BUT I need Plex to manage the content restrictions the same way it does for a home user… Can’t understand that after so many years and so many requests in this thread alone; it has still not been done… Or am I missing something that this thread has not mentioned?
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