Plex Home Breaks parental controls

My Apologies if this has been discussed before. I ran a quick search and didnt see this brought up but its possible i overlooked it. I am new to the forum so dont hate me please.

I use a Plex managed account to control access to what my 4 year old can watch. I set her up a managed user account with no pin, and set a PIN for my own profile. Anything rated higher than G, she cant see unless I explicitly grant access to her profile. The system works pretty well. However, when I added my wife to our Plex Home so that she will have her own watch history, and playlists… I discover that Her profile now shows up as an option under my sign in credentials. So my child, which previously only had access to her own profile. Now she can just pick her moms profile and have unfettered access to a library full of horror films. I, as the server admin, do not have the option to set a pin for her profile, and she doesnt have the option to set a pin on her own profile either, so if she remains in the plex Home, her profile is available with no PIN.

A pin can be added to any account in the Home. When signed in as your wife’s account in the web app go to the Home settings hover over the row with her username and on the right side of the row you will see the SET PIN text you can click on.

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