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Kanbei85
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Parental Blocking blocks too much - blocks Y/Y7 (Roku Live TV)

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The Roku live TV channels are blocking Y/Y7 content. Why would that ever happen? It's the lowest setting, so in theory it should be impossible to block Y/Y7 content. The parental blocking doesn't seem to be working properly. TCL 3 Series.

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RokuReynan-L
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Re: Parental Blocking blocks too much - blocks Y/Y7 (Roku Live TV)

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Hi, @Kanbei85.

Greetings from the Roku Community!

We understand that you have questions about the parental controls. No worries, we're here to help.

Content can be played without a PIN depending on which of the four rating levels you select when configuring your PIN preferences, as described in the table below.

supported icon = Content with this rating on The Roku Channel can be watched without a PIN

not supported icon = A PIN is required to watch content with this rating on The Roku Channel

Supported ratings in The Roku Channel PIN preferences

We suggest setting the parental controls to other preferences to access other content.

Furthermore, you can visit this support article on how to block content using parental controls

We hope you'll find this information helpful. Let us know if you still have any questions.

Regards,
Reynan

Reynan L.
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RokuReynan-L
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Re: Parental Blocking blocks too much - blocks Y/Y7 (Roku Live TV)

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Hi, @Kanbei85.

Greetings from the Roku Community!

We understand that you have questions about the parental controls. No worries, we're here to help.

Content can be played without a PIN depending on which of the four rating levels you select when configuring your PIN preferences, as described in the table below.

supported icon = Content with this rating on The Roku Channel can be watched without a PIN

not supported icon = A PIN is required to watch content with this rating on The Roku Channel

Supported ratings in The Roku Channel PIN preferences

We suggest setting the parental controls to other preferences to access other content.

Furthermore, you can visit this support article on how to block content using parental controls

We hope you'll find this information helpful. Let us know if you still have any questions.

Regards,
Reynan

Reynan L.
Roku Community Moderator
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Kanbei85
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Re: Parental Blocking blocks too much - blocks Y/Y7 (Roku Live TV)

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It looks like you're saying there's no option to allow all of the Y's (including Y7) while disallowing PG and up. Is that correct? Doesn't that seem like an oversight? This means that I cannot actually allow all the children's programming while excluding everything else.

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RokuReynan-L
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Re: Parental Blocking blocks too much - blocks Y/Y7 (Roku Live TV)

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Hi, @Kanbei85.

Greetings from the Roku Community!

If I understand correctly, you're inquiring about there's no option to allow TV-Y and TV-Y7 content while blocking PG and above. Unfortunately, our current parental controls don’t offer this specific combination. We understand this limitation and will pass your feedback on to our team for future improvements.

If you have any other questions or need further assistance, please let us know. Thank you for your patience!

Regards,
Reynan

Reynan L.
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Kanbei85
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Re: Parental Blocking blocks too much - blocks Y/Y7 (Roku Live TV)

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I am unable to use parental blocking at all, since it is extremely glitchy and winds up blocking lots of children's programming even if I do set it to PG.

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