LARO77 Parental Controls: Keep a Child Off Gambling Sites and Away From Your Wallet

Parental controls do two jobs against gambling: they keep a child from opening gambling sites, and they stop a child from paying for anything on your phone without you. This page sets up both on Android and on iPhone, using the steps Google and Apple publish on their own help pages. The games these pages cover are for adults 21 and over. If someone in your home already gambles and the concern is bigger than a child’s curiosity, start with who counts as a who counts as a problem gambler and come back here for the device settings.

Parental controls in six steps

Work through these in order. Each one closes a gap the one before it leaves open.

1. Give the child a supervised account: Family Link on Android, Family Sharing with the child’s own Apple Account on iPhone.
2. Block gambling sites in the browser the child uses.
3. Require your approval for every purchase and download.
4. Set a PIN or passcode that only you know.
5. Lock your own wallet and keep your MPIN to yourself.
6. Add a gambling site blocker for every device the child uses, and test it.

The sections below give the menu names for steps 2 to 5. Menu labels shift between software versions, so follow the label on your own screen if it differs by a word.

Block gambling sites on Android with Family Link

Google’s help page for Chrome and a child’s Google Account gives this route. It works for a child whose Google Account is managed by Family Link, on any device where the child signs in to Chrome.

1. Open the Family Link app.
2. Select your child.
3. Tap Controls, then Google Chrome and Web.
4. Choose a filter: Allow all sites, Try to block explicit sites, or Only allow approved sites.
5. Under Manage sites, tap Approved sites and Blocked sites to add a specific address.

Read the three filters as Google words them. “Try to block explicit sites” is aimed at sexually explicit sites, and Google adds that no filter is perfect, so it will not catch a casino lobby on its own. Add each gambling address under Blocked sites, or choose Only allow approved sites so that nothing outside your list opens. For the address a child might actually type, see the section on blocking by site later on this page.

Parental controls on iPhone: Screen Time and Ask to Buy

Apple’s support pages describe Screen Time inside Family Sharing. You set it from your own iPhone, under your child’s name.

1. Open Settings and tap Family, then tap your child’s name.
2. Tap Apps & Websites. If asked, enter your Screen Time passcode.
3. Tap Restrictions, then tap Filtering under Websites.
4. Choose Limit Adult Websites or Ask to Browse. Apple says to use Ask to Browse by setting Approved Websites Only.
5. To shut one address out, select it in Apps & Websites and tap Block Website, then tap again to confirm.

Apple’s page says Ask to Browse is on by default for children under 13 and Limit Adult Websites is on by default for children under 18. As with Google, a default adult-site filter is not a gambling filter. The Approved Websites Only setting and the Block Website list are the two that decide whether a casino address opens.

Purchase approval: Google Play and Ask to Buy

Approval settings stop a child from spending money inside the store. Both companies say exactly what they cover, and neither covers a payment made to a website.

On Google Play, a parent in the family group can require permission to purchase or download. Google’s page says purchase approval settings only apply to purchases made through Google Play’s billing system. The route on a computer is:

1. Go to g.co/yourfamily.
2. Select your child.
3. Click Controls on Google Play.
4. Under “Purchase & download approvals,” click Require approval for.
5. Choose All content, All purchases that use the family payment method, Only in-app purchases, or No approval required.

On iPhone, Apple’s Ask to Buy page gives this route: open Settings, tap Family, tap your child’s name, tap Apps & Websites, tap Restrictions, tap Ask to Buy, then turn on Require Purchase Approval. Apple adds that depending on the child’s state, country or region, Ask to Buy is on by default and cannot be turned off if the child is under 18. Your child needs their own Apple Account for this to work, not a shared one.

Which setting stops what

This table puts each tool next to what it stops and what it leaves open, so you can see the gap that the wallet lock and the site blocker fill.

For Google Play content restrictions, Google’s page gives the steps: open Google Play, tap the profile icon, then Settings, Family, Content restrictions, then Go to Parental controls and Set up a parental controls PIN. Google says to create a PIN your child does not know. If your child’s account is managed with Family Link, open the Family Link app, select your child, tap Controls, then Google Play.

Wallet hygiene on a shared phone

A child who cannot reach a casino through a store can still reach it if your wallet is open on a phone you leave around. These five habits close that route.

1. Turn on the wallet app’s own lock, so the app asks for a code or fingerprint before it opens.
2. Never share your MPIN. GCash’s help page says GCash will never send you links by SMS or email or ask for your MPIN or OTP.
3. Change the MPIN if you think a child has seen it. GCash’s page says to change your MPIN if you want to update it for security.
4. Keep the wallet’s linked-account and payment details off any screen a child can open.
5. Check your wallet’s transaction history once a week and look for payments you do not recognise.

If a payment you did not make shows up, treat it as a security problem with your wallet first and use the wallet’s own help centre to report it. Name the amount and time when you do.

Why this page exists on a casino reference site

This site and the games it covers are for adults 21 and over. PAGCOR’s responsible gaming page lists persons under 21 years of age among those prohibited from gambling in any gaming establishment and on any online gaming platform. A child on your phone is, in plain terms, someone who should not reach a lobby at all.

LARO77’s lobby prints no age statement of its own, so do not wait for one to protect a child. The device controls above are yours to set, and they work whatever the site says.

Block by site, then close what is already open

Parental controls decide what a supervised account can reach. A dedicated blocker works at a different level, by stopping gambling domains on the whole device, which is the layer covered by the device-level site blocker steps. Use both: the account control for the child, the blocker for the device.

When a casino account already exists, work through these in order:

1. Take the device away from the account: sign the child out and change the password.
2. Follow the steps for an account closure request for the account that exists.
3. Check the Hopeline help-line numbers if the situation has become a worry about someone’s wellbeing.
4. Read the 21+ responsible play rules for adults.