Disney+ Parental Controls Are Here and R-Rated Movies Are Arriving (2024)
Disney+ has officially debuted its parental controls. And it looks like the main role of these settings is to keep the kids from watching Jon Bernthal kill a hundred people across The Punisher—and Daredevil season two. The streaming platform brought over seven of its Marvel TV shows, and most of them are very different in tone than their MCU counterparts. While it was pretty shocking that they weren’t headed to Hulu, it makes a lot of sense that the company wants to keep its Marvel content in one spot. And even more so that it would use the opportunity to unveil a very detailed set of parental control settings. When Disney+ first launched its full catalog was available on the standard-setting. And one other specific setting was available for kids. But now, even more options have arrived to narrow what users can see on the platform. Because yes, TV-MA shows now live on Disney+ and R-Rated entries like Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Loganare making their way onto the platform starting July 22.
At last parental controls are here. And this is what it means for those logging into Disney+.
What New Content Settings Are Available With Disney+’s Parental Controls?
For starters, there are two major profile settings on Disney+: regular and kids. The latter profile contains just the younger content, from animated films to Disney Junior and Disney Channel staples. The account holder can also set an “exit question” to further keep kids from accessing more mature content. This setting requires anyone trying to leave a kids’ account to answer a question in order to do so.
But it’s the regular profile content settings that get interesting with new parental controls. There are a lot of content settings to choose from. A whopping nine of them. Of course, they start with the youngest level content: TV-Y; TV-Y7;TV-Y7-FV;G,T-VG; PG,TV-PG—which is more or less the kind of content on the kids’ profile setting.
The remaining settings are PG-13, TV-14, R, TV-MA. Prior to activating the parental controls settings, the standard Disney+ profile fell into the PG-13/TV-14 category. It housed The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and West Side Story next to friendlier fare like Encanto. Now when you log into Disney+ and activate the parental control settings, you can flip to TV-MA, the highest setting. (TV-MA is the R-rating for TV and its highest maturity rating. For reference, Euphoria is rated TV-MA.)
While I want to talk about it forever, Disney does not want young eyes to see Vincent D’Onofrio take a guy’s head off with a car door in Daredevil. (However, they can see him wearing a Hawaiian shirt in Hawkeye.) At launch, there’s only one major difference between Disney+’s previous standard-setting and the R and TV-MA setting. And, of course, it’s Marvel’s TV fare ( previously housed on Netflix.) Daredevil, Jessica Jones, The Punisher, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders are the only shows to land above the TV-14 rating.
Agents of SHIELD, which just joined the platform as well, rests comfortably in TV-14 land. (It was on network TV, after all.) And for other recent shows, it looks like Moon Knightand Obi-Wan Kenobi fall under TV-14 as well.Deadpool, Deadpool 2,and Logan will begin to stream on the platform starting July 22 and they will be rated R.
How You Can Change Your Parental Controls Settings On Disney+
If all this talk of parental controls has reminded you there are some profiles you need to amend, here’s how you can do it. Simply hover over your user icon on the platform and select “Edit Profiles” from the menu that appears. Then go to the profile you’d like to edit. Don’t worry, Disney+ will ask you to enter your password before making any changes. Once you do that, you’ll see a new “Content Rating” section. Clicking on that will bring you all the possible parental control options you can choose from. Happy toggling.
A More Mature Future for Disney+
Seeing R-rated (or TV-MA for that matter) associated with Disney+ surely raises some eyebrows. Famously Disney has never released an R-rated movie under its own brand. But it has a whole lot of subsidiary studios—especially since acquiring Fox. Currently, the first R-rated movies are making their way onto Disney+. And it certainly looks like the Mouse House streamer will continue to branch out. Does that mean Hulu will soon join Disney+ and create a US counterpart to the streaming platform’s Star global brand? (Yep, that means people around the world watched on Disney+.) Who knows, really. Hulu still boasts a whole lot of content, even if Disney has big plans for its more mature content on Disney+. But it’s food for thought.
Disney’s making a lot of changes to its streaming platform in the coming months, and I know I am very curious to see what it has in store.
Since some content on Disney+ is only appropriate for mature audiences, such content may not appear on the Disney+ app or website if the Content Rating is set too low on the profile. The account owner can always raise or lower the Content Rating for the profile as desired.
To adjust a profile's content ratings, access your profile and select “Edit Profiles.” Select the profile you'd like to edit; under “Parental Controls,” select “Content Rating.” After entering your password, you can then select the highest level of content rating for that profile from among nine options (TV-Y; TV-Y7; ...
Step 1 – On the profile selection page, select “Edit Profiles” and choose which profile you'd like to set a maturity level on. Step 2 – At the bottom of the profile page, find “Content rating” under “Parental Controls”. Step 3 – Choose which maturity level you would like for the profile.
Since some content on Disney+ is only appropriate for TV-14 or TV-MA audiences, such content may not appear on the Disney+ app if the Content Rating is set too low on the profile. You can always raise or lower the Content Rating for the profile as desired.
Disney+ just got a little more adult. The streaming service added its first R-rated films in the US on Friday with “Deadpool,” “Deadpool 2” and “Logan.” The movies star Marvel superheroes, but as their ratings suggest, they're decidedly not kid-friendly.
Disney Plus has added its first R-rated movies: "Logan," "Deadpool," and "Deadpool 2." The move marks a big step forward for the service by offering better value to its adult subscribers. Disney also added a slate of mature Marvel shows in March, along with increased parental controls.
Subscribers received emails that detailed changes to user agreements for each platform. Subscribers may not share their accounts with anyone outside their primary household residence, unless it's permitted for their tier, according to Disney's terms.
Through Touchstone, Disney's first R-rated film, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, was released on January 31, 1986, and was a box office success. Ruthless People followed on June 27, 1986, and was also very successful.
Why Disney+ Has Embraced R-Rated Movies – Even If Parents Don't Like It | Analysis. To catch up to Netflix, the studio needs “their entire portfolio… they can't bring that to bear with just G and PG content.”
Children under 17 must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian over the age of 21 for R-rated movies. I.D. is required for proof of age. Children under 6 years of age are not permitted into R-rated features at all.
To adjust a profile's content ratings, follow the steps below: Navigate to your profiles and select Edit profiles. Select the profile you'd like to edit. Under Parental Controls, select Content rating.
Content is restricted to adults 18 and over only, and may include explicit sexual activity, violence, and drug usage. Disney+ offers parental control features which are based on the above two content rating systems.
On Wednesday, Disney will add new Marvel shows rated TV-MA that were originally released on Netflix. These shows include “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones,” “Luke Cage,” “Iron Fist,” “The Defenders,” and “The Punisher,” along with the TV-14 rated “Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” which originally premiered on ABC.
You may receive error messages when selecting certain titles if the content is not available in your current country/region. This may occur if you are traveling to a different country/region, for example, where content availability is different from the country/region where you normally access Disney+.
Ever since Disney+'s launch in Singapore in February 2021, there has been plenty of content being added to its library regularly, especially via its Star category, which houses majority of the NC16 rated and above content.
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