Apple TV

Who has an Apple TV and quickly tries to connect your iPad so your students don't see inappropriate movies?! Is this the type of screen you see when you turn it on? Never know what's going to be on there? I have a solution for you!

Scroll down to your settings and open it. It's the grey icon with a circular gear. 

Click on that icon to open it. Next you will click on General. 

Once General opens, scroll down and click on Restrictions. In Restrictions, you will have to click on the option to turn on restrictions. Once you do that, you will have to set up a 4 digit password. Remember that password (write it down somewhere you will remember it). 

Once your password is set up, you can modify your settings. To have those movies disappear, scroll down to Purchase & Rental within the Restrictions screen. Click on that until its status changes to Hide. 

Next, you can change your tv and movie ratings to PG or G.  Just scroll down and click on those until you have the desired rating you want. 

Once it is all set up, go ahead and click the main menu button until you get back to the main screen. The movies should be gone!!! 

Sometimes we have icons on our Apple TV we don't want or we don't use. A majority of those can be hidden. Scroll back down to settings and open it again. This time, scroll down and click on Main Menu. 

You will then open to a screen with a list of all the icons on your Main Menu screen. All you have to do is scroll through the list and if you don't want it to show you, click on it; its status will change to Hide. You can click on it again to change it back. 

Your Apple TV should be set up a little better now to use in your classroom! You can always follow the same directions to reverse what you did. Just remember your 4 digit password. I hope this helped!