Turn on Apple Screen Time with a passcode only you know, install Narro, then use Content & Privacy Restrictions to turn off Safari and block app installs and deletions. Build Narro feeds of the Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, and LinkedIn profiles you approve, as many as you like, and share them with your kid. They see those profiles’ posts in order, with no algorithm, comments, DMs, or ads.
Every Screen Time step uses settings already on the iPhone, and the only app to install is Narro. Setting up an Android phone instead? Follow the Family Link and Narro setup guide for Android.
Turn on Screen Time
Settings → Screen Time → Turn On Screen Time → This Is My Child’s iPhone, then set a Screen Time passcode only you know. Apple’s own instructions: Use Screen Time to manage your child’s iPhone.
Install Narro
Now, before the next step locks down installs.
Turn off the browser
Content & Privacy Restrictions → Allowed Apps: turn Safari off.
Lock installs, deletions, and purchases
Content & Privacy Restrictions → iTunes & App Store Purchases: “Don’t Allow” for all three. This is the load-bearing step: it stops a replacement app going in and stops Narro coming out.
Schedule Downtime around Narro
Screen Time → Downtime: block everything except Narro on the Always Allow list.
Optional, stricter: Guided AccessOptional
Accessibility → Guided Access pins the phone to one app for a session.
One nuance worth knowing, not a reason to change the plan: any other installed app with its own general-purpose browser could still load arbitrary pages. A small, deliberate app allowlist (Narro plus a couple of trusted essentials) is what keeps this airtight in practice.
The phone settings decide which apps your kid can open. Narro is the social app they keep, filled with the creators and accounts you picked, in order, with no algorithm choosing what comes next. Here is how to set it up with one paid account for the whole family.
Create your Narro account
You hold the one paid Narro account. Every feed your kids read lives in it, so every change goes through you.
Build feeds for your kids
Add the profiles they would actually want that you approve of: favorite creators, a hobby channel. Add a few of your own picks too, like a school group, the local library, or a museum. Make as many feeds as you like: one per kid, one per interest, or one that siblings share.
Share each feed and send them the link
Turn on sharing for each feed and send the links to your kid, by text or however you like.
They follow it from a free account
On their phone, your kid creates their own Narro account and follows the feeds you sent. Following a shared feed is free, so there is no extra seat to pay for per child.
Curious what a real one looks like first? See how Narro works for parents, with a live example feed and a comparison with other parental control apps.
No. You hold one paid account and can build as many feeds as you like in it: one per kid, one per interest, or one siblings share. Each kid creates their own account and follows the feeds you share with them. Following a shared feed is free.
No. Only the owner of a feed can add or remove profiles. Your kid follows the feed, so they see what you put in it and nothing else.
Yes. You own the feed, so opening it in your account shows exactly the posts your kid sees.
No. Narro has no comments, no direct messages, no ads, and no algorithm. It shows posts from public profiles only, and only from the profiles in the feed.
New accounts start with a 14-day trial. When it ends, an account that follows at least one feed keeps reading those feeds for free and can no longer build feeds of its own. An account that follows nothing is asked to subscribe, so have your kid follow your feed right after they sign up.
Use both, for different jobs. Screen Time controls which apps exist on the phone at all; Narro fills the one social app you leave on with the profiles you chose. Neither replaces the other.
No. Screen Time is built into iOS, and every Screen Time step on this page uses settings already on the iPhone. The only paid part is your own Narro account.
For the fully locked-down setup, yes: the App Store restriction is what stops a deleted app from quietly coming back. A lighter version is possible by leaving apps installed and using Downtime instead, without the App Store lock.
Turn on Screen Time first, then install Narro, then lock the phone down. Locking down app installs before Narro is on the phone means unlocking everything again just to add it.