Parenting with Xbox will become a little easier in the Creators Update with new parental control features

While I’m not a parent myself, I sympathize with the plight many parents face with younger children entering into adolescence. The family or living room may have an Xbox One that the child just adores playing Forza, Unravel, or any number of other games at all hours of the day. The one thing parents likely struggle with regarding children an the Xbox is setting and upholding time limits for when and for how long the child can play. Microsoft and Xbox obviously had this exact problem in mind when they began developing a new feature for the Xbox One set to launch as part of the Creators Update: Screen time.
Screen time is part of an online dashboard that lets a parent set and manage a schedule for when a child’s Xbox account can be active on the console. If it sounds simple, it will be. Microsoft will implement the Screen time feature as part of a complete panel of features that let parents help their game-loving children learn to game and shop responsibly online. Screen time will allow parents to set a per-day quota of Xbox gaming, with either single or multiple time slots, as well as the ability to control each day of the week independently, making it easy to allot all of Sunday to family and not the Xbox.
Microsoft already has the majority of the online parental controls dashboard live at microsoft.com/family, and Screen time will join some other great features. Specifically, Microsoft family section lets parents set rating and spending limits for their children’s Xbox account so they can’t buy something they don’t have or shouldn’t be playing, as well as allowing per-app content blocking so kids only get the best and safest Xbox experience. Screen time is currently only available through the online dashboard for select Xbox Insiders who log in using their Insider-enabled Xbox credentials, but will get a full-scale rollout as time progresses leading up to the Creators Update this spring.
Via: onMSFT