Now I am stuck in this rabbit hole of a child acount because I was honest with my age.And I cant even upload videos on my acount that I spend so much progress on
Yep, it's a bloody awful implementation of child accounts, which appears to be more about Sony covering their arse than actually providing decent parental controls.
another stupid thing they did is banned the mic on Apple headphones they work fine but if ur in a ps4-5 party and u use Apple headphones the mic won’t work lmfao
dosent make fucking sense.Playstation shouldnt decide what your name is cause when i first logged into the ps4 when i got it i tried to make my own name but it said i was too "young" to do that so it forced me to use the name model emerald 007 which is full of shit
I encounter exactly the same problem and I TOTALLY agree with your opinion, parental control don't have any meaning if Sony don't let us as parents to have control!. Thanks for sharing and not needing to continue searching for an answer to this "error" from Sony!
Im 16 with my own job and my own debit card and I can't even add a payment method to my account or add funds to my account 🤬tf is wrong wit Playstation ong bruh
@@JoeChip I Know You Won't See This But If You Do I Had A Child Account For Playstation And All That Was Allowed Was To Play Games I Couldn't But Codes Anything Only Play Game Now My Account Is Upgraded And Now I Can But Codes Stuff Like That But Before I Did Not Like It
Many thanks for the informative video, I've been dealing with this same issue. My kids accounts are now rubbish and now I must setup new adult ones. You answered all of the questions I had and you have gained a new subscriber, cheers 👍
Your video literally explains my problem right now. I gave my daughter my old PS4 and so she’s using a child sub account I made for her. I’ve unrestricted everything but it still won’t let her play online games. She’s desperate to play Fortnite. You are so right - because Sony won’t give us parents ‘control’ I’m forced to now make her an adult account just so she can go online. Utterly ridiculous and it’s like you say, they’re covering their own asses and passing the buck.
As a parent of two, child accounts are hands down the most ridiculous things out there. The share level of security is way over the top, it’s infuriating
it is refreshing to see a parent actually care about their child using certain online features, so many parents just let their kids do whatever they like, play games they shouldn't be, and not care, with this situation, you are a parent who cares and it's Sony who's to blame.
Shut the fuck up, how about parents actually take responsibility and better manage what their kids do instead of blaming everything else, just pathetic and lazy parenting
Thanks for trying to get to the bottom of this, Joe. I just spent an hour trying to figure this out, and even considered contacting their support line (again), but you saved me at least another hour. Buying the PS5 is totally out of the question now. And yes, I too will have to resort to the no-age-restriction solution, it seems. Thanks for an utterly and completely useless feature, Sony!
I think the best solution for this is to create an unrestricted, adult account for the child and do not provide any payment details for the account. If you want to make purchases, buy PSN wallet top ups from a physical store. The parent will also have to take up the responsibility of controlling what games the child plays manually. Once the child is 18, they can change their DOB to their real one, by linking their account to a Sony mobile account. Currently, I think this might be the best way of managing a child's account, without preventing them from playing online completely. It's disgusting, that it has to come down to this.
I have so much progress on my account, so many games and trophies. But when my account was created, it was a child account... and to this day... it is still a child account. I want to change my username to something else but I cant do that, so I want to either upgrade my child account to an adult account or transfer all my progress to a different (adult) account... but I can’t do either of those things... be cause all those years ago, my account was created as a child account... I don’t want to lose all my progress, but I don’t want to have this child account any longer... does anyone have any suggestions.
I can't even change my online id. And i put my sister's age she was born in 1999. So she is 22 now. And it still says i have a child account. 🤬😭 and even if i put my real age i am 13
You are my god damn hero, after a month doing nothing with my ps4 i finnaly had the best idea in the world. I made my fathers account mine, and named it like my account that i had. this was one of the best ideas in the world so fair
So I have a situation, I want to change my name on PS4 so bad but the thing is I was honest with my birthday. If I switch to my moms account am I going to have to friend everyone again and etc.
@@akaricky658 It’s certainly not ideal. Sony are far too restrictive with child accounts. And their customer service was terrible when I tried to find workable solutions.
It got WORSE on the PS5. My son was setting up fortnite and it said enter this code on your epic account. Because he did it on my iphone that i played on he accidentally logged in on my epic games account. Now the PS5 is only linked to my fortnite. I contacted PS and they said it is an epic issue. Epic support is a joke. You can only contact them by email and that takes 2-3 days to get a response. However I extremely doubt they will be able to help as it is most assuredly a PS issue. On the xbox his user account (which is a kid account with custom settings) is his epic games, my user account is mine; but on the PS5 you only get to have one and it is the first one you choose.
Hi! I wanted to tell you I bought a ps3 in 2013-2014 When I was like 6 years old.... Since I was 6 years old, I didn't know of any of these stuff... Luckily, I was setting up my ps3 with my dad and we luckily entered my dad's birthday, so I was so lucky that I didn't even know that but I set my dad's birthday. Something else If parents are setting up their kids birthday on PlayStation then there is actually no reason of setting it, because their kids will be unable to play online games, so they end up setting a birthday above the age if 18 and their kids have no restrictions at all! Sorry for spelling mistakes, I am from Greece and I am 12.
I got a PS4 for my birthday in 2016 I was honest about my age and regret it now I am stuck in the hellhole that is a child account. When I get the PS5, I am lying about my age because I don't what to have restrictions restrictions restrictions.
Yes it's a pain in the neck. Do be aware that if you create a new account, though, you will lose all your digital purchases, games etc, as they'll be linked to your old account.
Just running into this problem myself. Really infuriating. I have experienced exactly what you have said here. I was hoping for a nugget at the end that said but you can do it this way, unfortunately not! I figured if I changed the child's date of birth that would sort it out but I cannot find an option to do this. Ridiculous. Thinking of selling it and going back to the Xbox.
Going through this with my son glad the only games I bought him only cost me 10$ but like typical Sony to make them force you to pay for an unrestricted account.
Sorry i’m super late to this, but I think you’d be able to put time-restrictions on a Family-Shared adult account. Of course you’d probably have to monitor his store purchases (which you can do with the app) but it would let him do online
I was arguing with playstation support now. By mistake I put activation code for PS Plus to my child account and have just black screen when he go to menu "select ps plus title". If you go to PS4 Parental control on PS5 and pick your child you can change age to no restrictions, but still he is not allow to see games on his account. When you choice PS5 parental control it say that child will need to send you request to play the game, but he is not able to send any request as there is no games on the list.
What a betrayal from sony.. I encountered the same issue and been looking for an answer for days, you explained everything and gave alot of information, now I know its impossible to play online on a psn account, but the problem is I can't just delete the account and make new one cuz it has hours of need for speed gameplay, and now I just have to wait over an entire year to be able to just play online with my friends, I figured out that I can change my birth date but it just say that I am a minor, What the hell does it mean I'm a minor?!! It would be appreciated if you make a tutorial on how to change the birth date as a minor, and thanks as always 👍🏼
It’s been the biggest pain in my side. I allow my kids to play FFXIV and they only play when I’m online. Now I have a pc and 2 PlayStations and can’t get them online at all. It’s totally a PlayStation issue as they can play on the PC no problem.
I'm scared because I picked a random date, if I remember correctly the year was 2003 but I'm not sure what month or day, the thing is I'm supposed to be 18 in that account this year but I don't know if playstation count the years and I will never be able to play CoD online or GTA :(
@@JoeChip Don't worry I just turned 18 in the playstation an change my age, I should be able to play mature games online, i'll edit this later to tell you if was able or not
Yes, Playstation have locked it down far too much. Even as a parent, I get frustrated because I can't open stuff up for my kid as I see fit. It's not so much that Sony offer parental controls, it's more like they are trying to be the parent.
This needs to be lifted ..,experiencing this right now and Now I know I should have never put age in his acct should’ve used ( mine ) 🤔 …But setting his own acct up the games he plays would be playable on his acct …. This really sucks….Thank you sir👍🏾
The real problem... Your child will be an adult (someday). And you can't get them off your account. Yep... Your kid will be linked to your account FOREVER!
I’m gonna turn 17 this year and it’s literally so dumb. IM 16 IM NOT A CHILD. I KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG AND I STILL CANT BUY ANYTHING AND CHANGE MY NAME.
hi so uh it’s been over 3 years after you posted this comment so you’re 19 now probably. how did it feel when you turned 18 and could turn off the parental controls?
@@domik3600 nahh wtff i forgot abt this. yeah im 19 i turn 20 im october. when i turned off parental controls it was like a relief and like i was free finally 😭
Bra, I had gotten my mom's permission to disable parental controls. I couldn't do shit and She really didn't care what games I played and stuff. So I went in and disabled everything. But that didn't fix everything there is still several things that were restricted. I was fucking with stuff for like 30 min and found out that there is a family manager. I then also figured out that you can remove people from your family. It looked like u was home free then apparently to get removed from the family You need to be 18 or older. And I'm now stuck. I cannot find out how to change my age for the life of me. And I'm not super great at navigating mobile browsers so psn is even being a struggle. I'm thoroughly pissed lmao
So I got my brother a playstation pro for Christmas he gets it create an account gets playstation plus account just for us to be in the same problem as you I'm kind of pissed off
I as a 14 year old can play online games but many things are still restricted such as username changing. The other fact is that even in the parental account, you cannot change another users age. It’s baffling because I will have to figure out how to transfer game saves to another new user so I can access things outside of a child user.
i have child account and i figured out how to put online on but its STILL really restricted and my dad has been trying to fix sense i was 6 YEARS OLD now im 14 and have 4 more years let till i could put discord on my PlayStation and buy games on my account
Gheese.... same thing as of 2023.... I'm in the rabbit hole trying to figure out how to access my kids profile to get an add- on for one of his games..... still, NO LUCK!!!!
In 2023 this is still an issue. It really is unbelievable. My son plays fortnite fine on his xbox with a child account and his correct date of birth, it allows me to protect him from receiving unwanted communications from people online while letting him play the game with his friends. I thought I would get him a playstation so (stupidly) did the same thing and set him up as a child and linked it to his epic games account. Now he is stuck with a game he cannot play on his playstation and it is linked to his epic games account which has all of his skins etc. My next concern from what I am reading online is that if I buy him a physical game (Spider-man 2 for example) and add it as an exception on PS5 so he can play it - if the game came with DLC codes or has DLC released for it in the future he will be unable to redeem those codes or buy the DLC because the base game rating is higher than his account age... even if I set the game as an exception to the rule. The only thing I have read to fix this is if you find the setting to not restrict online play... however I am UK based and that setting just does not exist in this region. Really terrible implementation by Sony.
Just got a PS five last week. I have one child that plays Fortnite on the switch and another who also played on the Xbox until I got rid of it. Transferred him over to PlayStation and it has been a mess. I also had a friend who gave a couple of Codes. I got one to work, but not the other. So it doesn’t really seem any better in 2024.
I’m almost 18 and I can’t plug my PlayStation to my discord/ share clips/ etc it’s ridiculous how you can’t freely free your child from these controls when they’re mature and not the trouble kind to actually need the controls, I don’t need them obviously as I’m old enough to know right from wrong but I’m being held hostage against my rights “freedom” to change something I own.
I agree but at least if the child's age is set to 14 (actually Fortnite says PEGI 12) it can play online you can still prevent adult content, right? (I'm aware that the whole point is to _not_ tweak the settings like that ... but still)
Now I'm wondering wether to just email Sony and tell them I'm a terrible parent and got my children's date of births wrong and see if I can get them to change their date of births on their accounts 🤔
I just bought my son his 1st console. A ps4. An I just ran into this issue. This is a big bummer. He earned his ps4, I feel he deserves to play the games he wants, under my supervision of course, and use the apps he already has profiles for(TH-cam an such). Dam ...
Yeah I’m stuck with IronBlockGaming, a name I chose when I was 10, I’m now 17 and I can’t change my name. Is there a way to change date of birth or do I have to wait till I’m 18?
Hello there! I’m currently 17 and I wanted change my username on ps4 but it did not allow me since I was 18, so if I call ps4 service will they let me change my birth? And also I have many other things like disable parental controls yet it would not work, any solutions to get out of the family?
I can’t have any money on my account, can’t change my gamer tag, can’t watch rated m games on share play, even if I have the game myself, and can’t log in to my TH-cam account to upload videos, just because my parents made my account instead of me. Sony’s ideas of parental controls are absolute shit.
Got my son a game for us to play together an just ran into this. Thanks for the info as this is still a headache in 2021 and going into 2022. I will def not be getting them a PS5 for this reason alone.
I'm a elder child, I have to put up with the limited parental controls my dad has on mine as the other option he knows how to do is to disable completely... only he needs it to monitor my sisters. Not too big of a bother except when I want a new game or dlc.
I can’t play anything I like because of this what if a kid gets something like COD Cold War with their money and then they can’t even play it?! That’s actually really unfair
I had made my sons account 3 months ago, He plays fortnite and i bought him so many skins! today his account just got restricted and its practically useless now. wasted all that money on his skins. This is so stupid!!!! If i knew this i would have made his age older. Such bullshit!
God I Fucking hate being a sub account my stupid brother made it a sub account when I was 10 just cus he thought I couldn’t see restricted shit or something well now I’m 14 and can’t put my name I can’t redeem a card I have to go to my older brothers account WHO DOESNT EVEN PLAY ANYMORE to do it.I tell just give me your account so I can remove my restrictions BUT HE ALWAYS SAYS NO like why do I have to be restricted when 99.8% of 18+ accounts are kids younger then me
Yeah i bought ps plus for my Account (a child account, im 15) and cant get the ps plus games because they are not in the store of my Account. My account is allowed to play all games but games for people older than 16 or 18 are not shown in the store. On my dads account there are all games avaible but there i dont have free access tomps plus exclusive games😥 why is that so wrong?
Just needed to watch 4 minutes of this and instantly knew what was happening. I just ran to this same problem in BF V so i cant even play it on my mini account where the game was supposed to be. Everything worked well expect online gamemodes and thats what BF is all about. I think you can change your childs profile nowadays from parent account but it can only be guardian or smth like that and you cant even change your age settings on Sony's website when you are considerated as a minor 😂😂
So I’m not the only one that went down a deep rabbit hole of settings and you tube videos to ultimately find i can do anything. Set up an account for my nephew to play on my old ps4 and he can’t ceven access most of the games he wants to play online how embarrassing
all I want is to try to activate authentication but I forgot what was username and password but since I am a child I can't check what is it so it is really horrible
What do we think on the odds of ps5 having a revamp on parental controls and making it more friendly. I'm so stuck with what to do now but thanks for the vid
It seems like the "less than 14 years old" thing is bullshit because I'm over 13 years old myself and I still can't access online for most games. I also can't access some DLC because some games require you to connect online to use them. I also can't just make an adult account at this point because I have 839 trophies on my current one and I don't want to lose all that.
Lol just ran into my first problem with having a child account I can’t login to Apple Music on the ps5 it says you may not link this service with a child account. Even though I can link Spotify I can’t link Apple Music. It’s not like Apple Music is meant only for adults my Apple ID is set to be 15 years old and I still use all the features of Apple Music fine on PC and my phone but I can’t use it on PlayStation even though I have a established account with a payment method already in there. Child accounts really need to just have the same permissions as adult accounts or get them at a reasonable age like 13 or 16
I’m 13 and put my birthday when I first got my playstation but it won’t let me change my name, its a really stupid one and I have to wait 5 YEARS just to change my name, I have no other restrictions but changing my name. I made a new account but of course, I don’t have anything from my main account and I have no data to games that could be linked from my main account. SONY is really weird. (I also got a PS5 this last Christmas and its really nothing special. To get the extra frames to make ur games look good, you need to get a monitor which has at least 120 frames or more to make it look good/okay. Some games without a monitor, look good but of course if you want your game to look better, you have to buy another accessory to fulfill the “Double the frames” performance upgrade.)
I have Fallout 4, I tried to go buy the season pass because it is only like 8 dollars. I only want to do this so I can get access to the DLC without having to buy another copy online for 40 dollars. But Playstation still will not allow me to do so, even though everything is set to allowed. So I have to wait until I am 17.
Sony is way too strict with their child accounts. On the PS5 I couldn’t even link discord to it even though to use discord you have to be over 13 anyways which I was. Not only that but child accounts can’t even adjust their online ID if they don’t like it. The parents can’t change it either. Their Parental Controls are absolute garbage and so are the child accounts
You know your parental control system is bad when even the parents hate it
Now I am stuck in this rabbit hole of a child acount because I was honest with my age.And I cant even upload videos on my acount that I spend so much progress on
Yep, it's a bloody awful implementation of child accounts, which appears to be more about Sony covering their arse than actually providing decent parental controls.
Ya me to
@@JoeChip im stuck in my child ocount and i was honest to and im 17 and my birthday is 21 october will i get to play fortnite without famili control?
@@abedalkadermasri4360 You mean when you’re 18? I think so, yes.
thank god someones on the same page as me
So I can't log in into my Facebook or TH-cam account but I can still play games with intense gore
PlayStation logic is so Stupid
Ik
Wow
another stupid thing they did is banned the mic on Apple headphones they work fine but if ur in a ps4-5 party and u use Apple headphones the mic won’t work lmfao
Me: age 17: Goes to change my PSN name
Sony: No
Me: Why
Sony: You are a Child thus no
Me:...
Daft, isn’t it?
@@JoeChip indeed
And your gana de stuck. Unless You can get one of your parents to call PSN and get your age changed to 18. It's fucking bull shit
dosent make fucking sense.Playstation shouldnt decide what your name is cause when i first logged into the ps4 when i got it i tried to make my own name but it said i was too "young" to do that so it forced me to use the name model emerald 007 which is full of shit
Yooo same I still can’t change it till this day or even stream on TH-cam or twitch it’s very annoying.
I encounter exactly the same problem and I TOTALLY agree with your opinion, parental control don't have any meaning if Sony don't let us as parents to have control!. Thanks for sharing and not needing to continue searching for an answer to this "error" from Sony!
It's ridiculous. It seem more like they are covering their arses than actually trying to make kids safer.
@@JoeChipI couldn’t even connect to discord because of it is a child account
I’m nearly 16 and I can’t change my psn name because “im a child”
Omg same dude I'm pissed
Woooooooow
Same
Dam i got my ps4 when i was 14 i lied about my age so i could play the last of us and gta 5
SAME!
Im 16 with my own job and my own debit card and I can't even add a payment method to my account or add funds to my account 🤬tf is wrong wit Playstation ong bruh
I don’t know. I tried to talk to them about this but it was like pulling teeth. Their CS department was about as much use as a chocolate teapot.
@@JoeChip love your analogies
So you can’t fix it
@@JoeChip I Know You Won't See This But If You Do I Had A Child Account For Playstation And All That Was Allowed Was To Play Games I Couldn't But Codes Anything Only Play Game Now My Account Is Upgraded And Now I Can But Codes Stuff Like That But Before I Did Not Like It
@on togami • 51 years ago your parents
Many thanks for the informative video, I've been dealing with this same issue. My kids accounts are now rubbish and now I must setup new adult ones. You answered all of the questions I had and you have gained a new subscriber, cheers 👍
Glad I could help 👍 And thanks for the sub.
now i have to wait 5 years to access anything in my account really
Edit: 4 years and counting, can't play cold war that I pre-ordered.
It let you order the game with your account?
@@JoeChip yes, playstation actually screwed up and i can play M rated games even with the newer "restrict" online communication
@RBG2566 really annoying yeah, when I got my ps4 I wanted to stream on twitch but then I realized I couldn't :(
Aye bro how do I check my age so I can check how long I got left
@@1nonlyMeatloaf I don't know other than knowing the date of birth you used for your account
Your video literally explains my problem right now. I gave my daughter my old PS4 and so she’s using a child sub account I made for her. I’ve unrestricted everything but it still won’t let her play online games. She’s desperate to play Fortnite. You are so right - because Sony won’t give us parents ‘control’ I’m forced to now make her an adult account just so she can go online. Utterly ridiculous and it’s like you say, they’re covering their own asses and passing the buck.
It’s so annoying
It really is
My son wanted to play fortnite to
As a parent of two, child accounts are hands down the most ridiculous things out there. The share level of security is way over the top, it’s infuriating
it is refreshing to see a parent actually care about their child using certain online features, so many parents just let their kids do whatever they like, play games they shouldn't be, and not care, with this situation, you are a parent who cares and it's Sony who's to blame.
Thank you.
Shut the fuck up, how about parents actually take responsibility and better manage what their kids do instead of blaming everything else, just pathetic and lazy parenting
@@thunder01xb ooooh, that was bit harsh that reply. You don't sound like a good parent starting off with the "f@#k up" straight off the bat. :-)
@@retrolongboarderNZ Harsh, but you didn’t say it wasn’t true 😆
Thanks for trying to get to the bottom of this, Joe. I just spent an hour trying to figure this out, and even considered contacting their support line (again), but you saved me at least another hour. Buying the PS5 is totally out of the question now. And yes, I too will have to resort to the no-age-restriction solution, it seems. Thanks for an utterly and completely useless feature, Sony!
I cant even buy vbucks on my lil brothers account on the ps4 cus it wont allow me to go to wallet on the child account
You can set ur child’s spending limit
I think the best solution for this is to create an unrestricted, adult account for the child and do not provide any payment details for the account. If you want to make purchases, buy PSN wallet top ups from a physical store. The parent will also have to take up the responsibility of controlling what games the child plays manually. Once the child is 18, they can change their DOB to their real one, by linking their account to a Sony mobile account. Currently, I think this might be the best way of managing a child's account, without preventing them from playing online completely. It's disgusting, that it has to come down to this.
My god account creation is also restricted
@@jeevajohnnebu2087 bro what
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I have so much progress on my account, so many games and trophies. But when my account was created, it was a child account... and to this day... it is still a child account. I want to change my username to something else but I cant do that, so I want to either upgrade my child account to an adult account or transfer all my progress to a different (adult) account... but I can’t do either of those things... be cause all those years ago, my account was created as a child account... I don’t want to lose all my progress, but I don’t want to have this child account any longer... does anyone have any suggestions.
this is why I set up my child on an adult account, not ideal at all, but no other option as Sony can't figure out simple parental controls.
I can't even change my online id. And i put my sister's age she was born in 1999. So she is 22 now. And it still says i have a child account. 🤬😭 and even if i put my real age i am 13
i just need a little over a year and i can change my cringy psn name, guess ill play doom for now thanks playstation
You are my god damn hero, after a month doing nothing with my ps4 i finnaly had the best idea in the world. I made my fathers account mine, and named it like my account that i had. this was one of the best ideas in the world so fair
LOL. Glad you managed to find a solution that worked for you.
@@JoeChip thnx :D
So I have a situation, I want to change my name on PS4 so bad but the thing is I was honest with my birthday. If I switch to my moms account am I going to have to friend everyone again and etc.
@@JoeChip im moving to xbox, ps4 is ass now
@@akaricky658 It’s certainly not ideal. Sony are far too restrictive with child accounts. And their customer service was terrible when I tried to find workable solutions.
It got WORSE on the PS5. My son was setting up fortnite and it said enter this code on your epic account. Because he did it on my iphone that i played on he accidentally logged in on my epic games account. Now the PS5 is only linked to my fortnite. I contacted PS and they said it is an epic issue. Epic support is a joke. You can only contact them by email and that takes 2-3 days to get a response. However I extremely doubt they will be able to help as it is most assuredly a PS issue. On the xbox his user account (which is a kid account with custom settings) is his epic games, my user account is mine; but on the PS5 you only get to have one and it is the first one you choose.
Make a adult account my guy or just sell ur ps5 and get a pc ps5 r selling for thousands now
Hi! I wanted to tell you I bought a ps3 in 2013-2014 When I was like 6 years old....
Since I was 6 years old, I didn't know of any of these stuff... Luckily, I was setting up my ps3 with my dad and we luckily entered my dad's birthday, so I was so lucky that I didn't even know that but I set my dad's birthday.
Something else
If parents are setting up their kids birthday on PlayStation then there is actually no reason of setting it, because their kids will be unable to play online games, so they end up setting a birthday above the age if 18 and their kids have no restrictions at all!
Sorry for spelling mistakes, I am from Greece and I am 12.
Good post.
You are only a year older than my lad and if he could write Greek as wall as you can English I’d be very impressed.
I got a PS4 for my birthday in 2016 I was honest about my age and regret it now I am stuck in the hellhole that is a child account. When I get the PS5, I am lying about my age because I don't what to have restrictions restrictions restrictions.
Yes it's a pain in the neck. Do be aware that if you create a new account, though, you will lose all your digital purchases, games etc, as they'll be linked to your old account.
Just running into this problem myself. Really infuriating. I have experienced exactly what you have said here. I was hoping for a nugget at the end that said but you can do it this way, unfortunately not! I figured if I changed the child's date of birth that would sort it out but I cannot find an option to do this. Ridiculous. Thinking of selling it and going back to the Xbox.
Bruh my brother putted my age as a 7 year old thinking it was funny and now i can’t change my age or my online id
I can't wait till I turn 18 next year. Imagine being able to drive a car in real life, but not in an online videogame.
I turn 18 next month, I’ve been waiting 2 years now
@@Cuddlzzz1738 I've been waiting for 3. ☹️
Im still waiting since i was fucking 8
I just wanna change my username
Same
Same mine keeps telling me I'm a child
@@fascistwhiterunguard7919 bro same it's pissing me
@@fearthereaper76 i made a backup & shit don’t even change lol
@@fascistwhiterunguard7919 bro same shits really pissing me off😞🤦🏽♂️
I allow my son to use my account to play online. Luckily he'll be fourteen in two months. I feel your pain.
Man I hope the ps5 changes something about this... we need it.
I really hope so but I really doubt it
@@ax_lz yeah Sony or just a bunch of lazy bastards.
Honestly my son gets made because he can't by anything with his psn card in fortnite so I just gift him the skins
Going through this with my son glad the only games I bought him only cost me 10$ but like typical Sony to make them force you to pay for an unrestricted account.
exactly same problems here.... i want a kids account for time-restrictions.... but he cant play fortnite ... or online... its just not possible
Yep, that's about the size of it. Sony appear just to be covering their arses here, rather than offering any meaningful parental controls.
Sorry i’m super late to this, but I think you’d be able to put time-restrictions on a Family-Shared adult account. Of course you’d probably have to monitor his store purchases (which you can do with the app) but it would let him do online
Yeah I didn’t know that, because I’m 17, I’m not allowed to include my audio in people’s streams. WTF!! MY MOM SAID ITS OKAY!!!
I hadn’t thought about that. What a pain in the neck.
Next time I upgrade I’m getting Xbox 100%. I hate Sony so much
This is pissing me off I'm 16 years old with a car and a job all i want is to change my username
I was arguing with playstation support now. By mistake I put activation code for PS Plus to my child account and have just black screen when he go to menu "select ps plus title". If you go to PS4 Parental control on PS5 and pick your child you can change age to no restrictions, but still he is not allow to see games on his account. When you choice PS5 parental control it say that child will need to send you request to play the game, but he is not able to send any request as there is no games on the list.
What a betrayal from sony.. I encountered the same issue and been looking for an answer for days, you explained everything and gave alot of information, now I know its impossible to play online on a psn account, but the problem is I can't just delete the account and make new one cuz it has hours of need for speed gameplay, and now I just have to wait over an entire year to be able to just play online with my friends, I figured out that I can change my birth date but it just say that I am a minor, What the hell does it mean I'm a minor?!! It would be appreciated if you make a tutorial on how to change the birth date as a minor, and thanks as always 👍🏼
I accidentally set my acc age way too low and if i called sony they'd think of some bullshit excuse
Yep.That’s my experience with them.
the thing is i’m 16 and can’t play red dead 2 and any other games like that and my parents turn the restrictions off and then they just turn off
That sounds very familiar. I contacted Sony about this and they weren't at all helpful.
It’s weird I’m able to play online, but can’t change my name or buy anything with a “master account” I’m so tired of it saying I’m a “child” 😕
im saying if your 12 or older for any other console your deemed a teenager.Not playstation cause apparently if your 12-18 your still a chiild
It’s been the biggest pain in my side. I allow my kids to play FFXIV and they only play when I’m online. Now I have a pc and 2 PlayStations and can’t get them online at all. It’s totally a PlayStation issue as they can play on the PC no problem.
It’s so shit I can’t play gta with my friends if I knew what would happen I would get an x box
im literally deleting my whole ps4 account. After all, its a new account, so it doesn't have too much on it
I cant because I linked my fortnite account and I didnt know it was a child account ☹ my fault
@@Lefuzy SAME BRO OMFG
@@Lefuzy I am sad for u
I'm scared because I picked a random date, if I remember correctly the year was 2003 but I'm not sure what month or day, the thing is I'm supposed to be 18 in that account this year but I don't know if playstation count the years and I will never be able to play CoD online or GTA :(
Ouch. That’s not good.
You should be able to check your DOB if you access your account online.
@@JoeChip Don't worry I just turned 18 in the playstation an change my age, I should be able to play mature games online, i'll edit this later to tell you if was able or not
I can’t even look up most games on the PlayStation store because I have a child account smh🤦🏽
Yes, Playstation have locked it down far too much. Even as a parent, I get frustrated because I can't open stuff up for my kid as I see fit. It's not so much that Sony offer parental controls, it's more like they are trying to be the parent.
Smhhhh
@RBG2566 yes same
it literally hides everything thats above e10, even fucking i am bread is censored
Thank you for addressing this I thought i was the only one
It’s a pain in the neck, and you are definitely not the only one.
Same
@@JoeChip are you able to change your user when turning 18?
I can drive but I’m not allowed to link my TH-cam account to my PlayStation
This needs to be lifted ..,experiencing this right now and Now I know I should have never put age in his acct should’ve used ( mine ) 🤔 …But setting his own acct up the games he plays would be playable on his acct …. This really sucks….Thank you sir👍🏾
The real problem... Your child will be an adult (someday). And you can't get them off your account.
Yep... Your kid will be linked to your account FOREVER!
I’m gonna turn 17 this year and it’s literally so dumb. IM 16 IM NOT A CHILD. I KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG AND I STILL CANT BUY ANYTHING AND CHANGE MY NAME.
hi so uh it’s been over 3 years after you posted this comment so you’re 19 now probably. how did it feel when you turned 18 and could turn off the parental controls?
@@domik3600 nahh wtff i forgot abt this. yeah im 19 i turn 20 im october. when i turned off parental controls it was like a relief and like i was free finally 😭
Bro all of the sudden I can’t use my main account that I’ve used for 5 years wth
That’s weird. Did anything happen to bring this about?
Bra, I had gotten my mom's permission to disable parental controls. I couldn't do shit and She really didn't care what games I played and stuff. So I went in and disabled everything. But that didn't fix everything there is still several things that were restricted. I was fucking with stuff for like 30 min and found out that there is a family manager. I then also figured out that you can remove people from your family. It looked like u was home free then apparently to get removed from the family You need to be 18 or older. And I'm now stuck. I cannot find out how to change my age for the life of me. And I'm not super great at navigating mobile browsers so psn is even being a struggle. I'm thoroughly pissed lmao
Welcome to the world of PlayStation family accounts.
New account my guy is u have valuable stuff 9n ur account just backup
@@okeee-o8l yee I figured that one out, I was naive about that idea 9 months ago. But thank you tho
So I got my brother a playstation pro for Christmas he gets it create an account gets playstation plus account just for us to be in the same problem as you I'm kind of pissed off
I as a 14 year old can play online games but many things are still restricted such as username changing. The other fact is that even in the parental account, you cannot change another users age. It’s baffling because I will have to figure out how to transfer game saves to another new user so I can access things outside of a child user.
how are you playing online pls help me
Bro i am stuck on 1 trophie away from a platinum and its a network feature 18+ game bruh
This guy makes the most frustrating thing funny
But seriously I have to wait till I’m 18 just to release a fortnite montage or something like that
Thanks for this but now I'm pissed because I have to make a new account because I can't do anything either
i have child account and i figured out how to put online on but its STILL really restricted and my dad has been trying to fix sense i was 6 YEARS OLD now im 14 and have 4 more years let till i could put discord on my PlayStation and buy games on my account
Gheese.... same thing as of 2023.... I'm in the rabbit hole trying to figure out how to access my kids profile to get an add- on for one of his games..... still, NO LUCK!!!!
In 2023 this is still an issue. It really is unbelievable.
My son plays fortnite fine on his xbox with a child account and his correct date of birth, it allows me to protect him from receiving unwanted communications from people online while letting him play the game with his friends.
I thought I would get him a playstation so (stupidly) did the same thing and set him up as a child and linked it to his epic games account. Now he is stuck with a game he cannot play on his playstation and it is linked to his epic games account which has all of his skins etc.
My next concern from what I am reading online is that if I buy him a physical game (Spider-man 2 for example) and add it as an exception on PS5 so he can play it - if the game came with DLC codes or has DLC released for it in the future he will be unable to redeem those codes or buy the DLC because the base game rating is higher than his account age... even if I set the game as an exception to the rule.
The only thing I have read to fix this is if you find the setting to not restrict online play... however I am UK based and that setting just does not exist in this region.
Really terrible implementation by Sony.
Just got a PS five last week. I have one child that plays Fortnite on the switch and another who also played on the Xbox until I got rid of it. Transferred him over to PlayStation and it has been a mess. I also had a friend who gave a couple of Codes. I got one to work, but not the other. So it doesn’t really seem any better in 2024.
I’m almost 18 and I can’t plug my PlayStation to my discord/ share clips/ etc it’s ridiculous how you can’t freely free your child from these controls when they’re mature and not the trouble kind to actually need the controls, I don’t need them obviously as I’m old enough to know right from wrong but I’m being held hostage against my rights “freedom” to change something I own.
I just bought my nine year old a ps4 pro, same problem, so he is now playing on my parantal account. what crap.
It’s so bloody frustrating, isn’t it?
This helps so much
I’m can’t even play Minecraft with my friends as I can’t do online at all
Because I’m 13
Yes, I've tried contacting Sony about this but they were about as much use as a chocolate fire guard.
Have you tried asking Sony to change/increase the age of your child's account? (as a workaround)
David Filskov I doubt they’d do it, and even if they did it would defeat the object as you would lose parental controls.
I agree but at least if the child's age is set to 14 (actually Fortnite says PEGI 12) it can play online you can still prevent adult content, right?
(I'm aware that the whole point is to _not_ tweak the settings like that ... but still)
Now I'm wondering wether to just email Sony and tell them I'm a terrible parent and got my children's date of births wrong and see if I can get them to change their date of births on their accounts 🤔
Did it work
I just bought my son his 1st console. A ps4. An I just ran into this issue. This is a big bummer. He earned his ps4, I feel he deserves to play the games he wants, under my supervision of course, and use the apps he already has profiles for(TH-cam an such). Dam ...
And the on top of all of that, they don’t allow the removal of parental controls, unbelievable…
All the dislikes are overprotective parents
Hope not, I'm a parent.
Yeah I’m stuck with IronBlockGaming, a name I chose when I was 10, I’m now 17 and I can’t change my name. Is there a way to change date of birth or do I have to wait till I’m 18?
As far as I’m aware there is no way to change your birth date. Sorry.
im stuck in my child ocount and i was honest to and im 17 and my birthday is 21 october will i get to play fortnite without famili control?
You should yes. Let me know how you get on.
Hello there! I’m currently 17 and I wanted change my username on ps4 but it did not allow me since I was 18, so if I call ps4 service will they let me change my birth? And also I have many other things like disable parental controls yet it would not work, any solutions to get out of the family?
Wow what a kick in the nads 😩 I've just done exactly what you did and made 2 child accounts for my kids wish I hadnt
i am 14 and it still wont let me ://///////
can i play any online on any game when im 14?
because im not sure i doesnt say anywhere.
i just want to play online with my mates ffs.
I can’t have any money on my account, can’t change my gamer tag, can’t watch rated m games on share play, even if I have the game myself, and can’t log in to my TH-cam account to upload videos, just because my parents made my account instead of me. Sony’s ideas of parental controls are absolute shit.
Yep. That about sums it up.
Joe Chip well I figured out how to get money, but still can’t do shit other than that. At least it lets me online.
Got my son a game for us to play together an just ran into this. Thanks for the info as this is still a headache in 2021 and going into 2022. I will def not be getting them a PS5 for this reason alone.
I'm a elder child, I have to put up with the limited parental controls my dad has on mine as the other option he knows how to do is to disable completely... only he needs it to monitor my sisters. Not too big of a bother except when I want a new game or dlc.
TRUE FACTS
IKR
I can’t play anything I like because of this what if a kid gets something like COD Cold War with their money and then they can’t even play it?! That’s actually really unfair
i know right i was downloading a game and it took a long time and then it said I cant play it
Thank you I was wondering now I'm sure I will create an adult account
I had made my sons account 3 months ago, He plays fortnite and i bought him so many skins! today his account just got restricted and its practically useless now. wasted all that money on his skins. This is so stupid!!!! If i knew this i would have made his age older. Such bullshit!
Strange that it was working and now isn't. What exactly happened before it stopped working?
God I Fucking hate being a sub account my stupid brother made it a sub account when I was 10 just cus he thought I couldn’t see restricted shit or something well now I’m 14 and can’t put my name I can’t redeem a card I have to go to my older brothers account WHO DOESNT EVEN PLAY ANYMORE to do it.I tell just give me your account so I can remove my restrictions BUT HE ALWAYS SAYS NO like why do I have to be restricted when 99.8% of 18+ accounts are kids younger then me
Now I want an xbox
Well, the Xbox certainly handles this stuff better.
@@JoeChip yah lol
dude all i'm trying to do is watch TH-cam on my account
don't have a child, don't think I will have one at least for 10 years or so but this was surprinsingly, very entretaining
Cheers 👍
Every problem this man has I have too like what is the point of buying a ps4 if my child can't play it they need to do something about this
So what did you end up doing? Are you able to move your child account to an adult account (changing the DOB?)
Yeah i bought ps plus for my Account (a child account, im 15) and cant get the ps plus games because they are not in the store of my Account. My account is allowed to play all games but games for people older than 16 or 18 are not shown in the store. On my dads account there are all games avaible but there i dont have free access tomps plus exclusive games😥 why is that so wrong?
Just needed to watch 4 minutes of this and instantly knew what was happening. I just ran to this same problem in BF V so i cant even play it on my mini account where the game was supposed to be. Everything worked well expect online gamemodes and thats what BF is all about. I think you can change your childs profile nowadays from parent account but it can only be guardian or smth like that and you cant even change your age settings on Sony's website when you are considerated as a minor 😂😂
I’ve been wanting to make videos and change my name for so long but i can’t because im registered as an 8 year old
So I’m not the only one that went down a deep rabbit hole of settings and you tube videos to ultimately find i can do anything. Set up an account for my nephew to play on my old ps4 and he can’t ceven access most of the games he wants to play online how embarrassing
I swear, this person on the inside was like "man I'm really trying but they're watching and I cant talk trash about the system"
I do try not to rant too much but it wasn't because I thought they were watching. I doubt I'm even a blip on Sony's radar.
I’m 17 and I have parental controls...
all I want is to try to activate authentication but I forgot what was username and password but since I am a child I can't check what is it so it is really horrible
What do we think on the odds of ps5 having a revamp on parental controls and making it more friendly. I'm so stuck with what to do now but thanks for the vid
It doesn’t
It seems like the "less than 14 years old" thing is bullshit because I'm over 13 years old myself and I still can't access online for most games. I also can't access some DLC because some games require you to connect online to use them. I also can't just make an adult account at this point because I have 839 trophies on my current one and I don't want to lose all that.
I'm having this exact problem. I've made way to much progress on my current account and I don't want to switch.
Lol just ran into my first problem with having a child account I can’t login to Apple Music on the ps5 it says you may not link this service with a child account. Even though I can link Spotify I can’t link Apple Music. It’s not like Apple Music is meant only for adults my Apple ID is set to be 15 years old and I still use all the features of Apple Music fine on PC and my phone but I can’t use it on PlayStation even though I have a established account with a payment method already in there. Child accounts really need to just have the same permissions as adult accounts or get them at a reasonable age like 13 or 16
I can’t even change my account age and it’s so stupid like I can’t do anything
I’m 13 and put my birthday when I first got my playstation but it won’t let me change my name, its a really stupid one and I have to wait 5 YEARS just to change my name, I have no other restrictions but changing my name. I made a new account but of course, I don’t have anything from my main account and I have no data to games that could be linked from my main account. SONY is really weird. (I also got a PS5 this last Christmas and its really nothing special. To get the extra frames to make ur games look good, you need to get a monitor which has at least 120 frames or more to make it look good/okay. Some games without a monitor, look good but of course if you want your game to look better, you have to buy another accessory to fulfill the “Double the frames” performance upgrade.)
I have Fallout 4, I tried to go buy the season pass because it is only like 8 dollars. I only want to do this so I can get access to the DLC without having to buy another copy online for 40 dollars. But Playstation still will not allow me to do so, even though everything is set to allowed. So I have to wait until I am 17.
Sony is way too strict with their child accounts. On the PS5 I couldn’t even link discord to it even though to use discord you have to be over 13 anyways which I was. Not only that but child accounts can’t even adjust their online ID if they don’t like it. The parents can’t change it either. Their Parental Controls are absolute garbage and so are the child accounts