How to Set PS5 Playtime Limits for Your Child

Check what you need first

You must be the family manager, or a parent or guardian the family manager picked. (Link on how to set up a family)
Your child needs their own child account, and that account must be a family member.
The child account needs a time zone before you can set playtime. The steps below cover it.

Open your child’s account in Family Management

Sign in to your PS5 as the family manager, parent, or guardian.
Go to Settings > Family and Parental Controls > Family Management.
Select your child’s account.
Set the Time Zone for your child’s account.

Turn on playtime limits

Select Playtime Settings.
Set Restrict Playtime to Restrict.
Under When Playtime Ends, choose Notify Only or Log Out.
Under Duration and Playable Hours, set the Playtime Duration and the Playable Hours.
Choose every day, or pick specific days of the week.
Select Save.

Your child will see a notice at the top of the screen as playtime runs low. If your child also plays on a PS4, the same limits apply there.

Give extra time for one day

Open your child’s account in Family Management.
Select Change Playtime for Today.
Set the new time and save it.

Your child can also pick Ask for More Playtime from a notification on the PS5. You’ll get a message with two choices: Change Playtime or Decline. The PlayStation Family app can change today’s playtime too.

Set playtime from a web browser instead

Go to Account Management and sign in as the family manager, parent, or guardian.
Select Family Management, then select your child.
Select Edit next to the playtime limit.
Select Save.

Playtime isn’t the only limit worth checking. A child’s Monthly Spending Limit starts at 0, and any purchase comes out of the family manager’s wallet. Have you set that one yet?

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