How to block adult content on Netflix.

Written October 2026 from Netflix’s own help pages. Menus change often.

Netflix is not a porn site. It does show nudity and sex scenes: in the shows, in the trailers, and in the row after the one you meant to watch, with the next episode already starting. For a lot of men that is where it starts, with a series that was fine at the first episode.

This page does two things. First, what Bramble does about it. Then every control Netflix gives an adult: what each one changes, what it does not, and what it takes to make one hold.

What Bramble does about Netflix

Bramble is a free adult content blocker for iPhone. It works on the phone you are holding, which is where Netflix is easiest to open at one in the morning.

• Apps you name stay shut. Name Netflix in the app shield, and the shield holds it.
• Someone else can hold the key. With Keyholder mode, a person you trust keeps your Screen Time passcode, so a limit you set at noon cannot be undone at one in the morning.

What Bramble cannot do is reach your TV. It is an iPhone app, and a TV is another screen. For the TV, the settings below are what you have, and the last section is how to make them hold.

It is free, forever, and no one gets a list of what you looked at — not your witnesses, not your Keyholder, not us. The blocking page has the full account.

Get Bramble free on the App Store

The rest of this page is Netflix’s own settings. They work without Bramble, and they are worth doing. Where one can be undone from the same screen it was set on, the page says so.

If you are setting this up for a child rather than for yourself, Netflix’s Kids profiles are built for that. This page is written for an adult doing it for himself.

Set the maturity rating

1. On iPhone, tap My Netflix at the lower right, tap your profile name at the top, then Manage Profiles, and pick your profile.
2. Tap Viewing Restrictions, then Maturity Rating, and enter your Netflix account password.
3. Choose the level that stops at PG-13 and TV-14. Netflix groups its US ratings as Kids (TV-Y through TV-PG), Teens (PG-13 and TV-14) and Adults (R, TV-MA and NC-17), so a cap at Teens removes the whole Adults group. The names on the screen have changed over the years, so go by the ratings.
4. On the web, go to netflix.com/account, choose Profiles, then Adjust parental controls. Pick your profile, verify with the code Netflix sends or your password, set the level, and Save.

Netflix lets you set this on your own profile. Ratings follow Netflix’s own groupings and can vary by region. Every title’s details page also lists content advisories, such as sex and nudity, so you can check before you press play.

Block the titles you know

1. Follow the same path: My Netflix, your profile name, Manage Profiles, your profile, then Block Titles. Enter your password.
2. Search for a title and tap it. To take one off the list, tap Edit, then the X.
3. On the web it is Adjust parental controls, then Title Restrictions.

A blocked title is removed from that profile. Netflix shows the first hundred.

Lock your profile with a PIN

1. On iPhone, follow the path to your profile and tap Profile Lock.
2. Tap Create a Profile Lock, enter your password, and choose a four-digit PIN. On the web it is Profiles, your profile, Profile Lock, Create a Profile Lock, then Save PIN.
3. On the web, with the main profile, also tick Require PIN to add new profiles.

A Profile Lock asks for the PIN to open that profile. It does not filter anything inside it, and it does not stop you switching to another profile that is unlocked, so lock every profile on the account. Some devices do not ask for the PIN to enter a locked profile, but they still ask for it to play.

Turn off autoplay

Autoplay starts the next episode before you have decided. Netflix keeps two switches, and both are set on each profile.

1. On iPhone, go to Manage Profiles and your profile, switch off Autoplay Previews and Autoplay Next Episode, and tap Done.
2. On the web, it is Profiles, your profile, Playback settings.

Netflix does not document a TV path. Set them on your phone or the web, then switch profiles, or sign out and back in on the TV, so it picks them up. Some older TVs do not support preview autoplay at all. With next-episode autoplay off, each episode ends and waits for you.

The one that holds

Everything above can be undone by a man who knows his own password. The phone app asks for the account password. The website asks for a code sent to the account email or phone, or the password. If you own the email, the phone number and the password, a PIN is friction and nothing more.

The lock is who owns the account. Suppose someone you trust owns it, with their email and phone on the account and a password you do not know, and you use your own profile on it. You cannot pass the code check or the password check, and you cannot remove the PIN. The cap you set holds on your phone, and on the TV, which cannot change it. That is a bigger ask than a PIN, which is why it works.

Close the two gaps you can: lock every profile, and tick Require PIN to add new profiles. One gap cannot be closed. Nothing stops a man from starting a new Netflix account of his own, and that is true of every service on these pages.

On your phone. A limit set in your iPhone’s own Screen Time belongs to the phone, and it can be put behind a passcode you do not know.

1. Open the iPhone’s Settings, then Screen Time. If it is off, turn it on.
2. Tap App Limits, then Add Limit.
3. Find Netflix in the list and tick it. The list has a search box at the top. Then, at the bottom of the list under Websites, tap Add Website and add netflix.com. Without that, a limit on the app does not cover it in Safari.
4. Tap Next, set the time, and turn on Block at End of Limit.
5. Back on the Screen Time page, tap Lock Screen Time Settings and set a passcode that someone you trust chooses and keeps. Without it, you can extend your own limit with one tap.

That last step is what Bramble’s Keyholder mode is for. The keyholder walk-through takes the person you ask through setting it on your phone, one screen at a time.

If it is still there afterward

Settings change what the screen offers. They do not change what you are reaching for. When a man has cleaned up his settings and still goes looking, it is usually because something else is being eased, and porn is only the fastest thing he found for it. That is not a verdict on you.

The ten questions are one honest place to look at it. Why can’t I stop watching porn is the longer version.