My plex library is set up with 4 libraries, Grown up Films / TV & Kids Films / TV. This has worked great so far, and I have shared the kids films with friends and family that have kids etc. However now a couple of mine are getting older, and Id like to be able to share a few films that are in the Gr…

Thank you Otto for the speady reply, but i dont think that works in this situation? The Library folder controls what the Kids can watch, and within that age ratings for my kids, if I do this then they would be able to watch stuff in the ‘grown ups’ library that has that age rating right?

It is exactly the right thing for your use case. Access permissions are not only controlled on a by-library basis as a whole. With a Plex Pass, the age rating of each individual item in the shared libraries is taken into account as well. Hence why my procedure calls in step 2) to define which age …

Think you’d have to add a kids label to all the kids stuff across library a and library b in bulk and then just restrict to that label

No, you don’t. A label is only required on those items, which have an age rating that is NOT in the “Allow Only Ratings” field.

But I do not want to generically allow Child1 to watch all gb15 films (for example) from the grown ups library if they are not already the Kid’s library. I don’t want to control what they are accessing by age rating.

Then labels will work, but you’ll have to label the original kids stuff as well, that could be just films or films and TV depending on what other stuff you want to share as the label restriction is per library

Thanks, ok, maybe I need to revisit how Im doing libraries now. Ive added a lot of the arr’s and my intention is that I will allow the kids to request thier own media automatically, so I guess I could automattically label that content and it would just be a bit tedious going through the existing stu…

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OttoKerner March 7, 2026, 2:43pm 2

See Block TV-MA for child account, except 1 show - #3 by OttoKerner

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