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September 24, 2020
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Need Parental Controls in the Deezer Family Plan for teenagers (not kids)

  • September 24, 2020
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I see a few posts in the forum with people asking if this can be done, but do not see it as an actual suggestion in the “Got an idea?” forum.

When a person subscribes to the family plan, they should have some settings they can control for any member on the plan - whether it is a kids account or not.  There are times when you want a teen to have access to some songs, but not all of them and certainly more than the kids account.  Right now there is no way to restrict content for that sub account (which you can do on other services). 

It would be really great if you could go a step beyond the other services and give a few options in parental controls (1) Do Not allow explicit content (2) Restrict certain songs (3) Restrict certain artists.

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Roadie
May 7, 2026

I see a few posts in the forum with people asking if this can be done, but do not see it as an actual suggestion in the “Got an idea?” forum.

When a person subscribes to the family plan, they should have some settings they can control for any member on the plan - whether it is a kids account or not.  There are times when you want a teen to have access to some songs, but not all of them and certainly more than the kids account.  Right now there is no way to restrict content for that sub account (which you can do on other services). 

It would be really great if you could go a step beyond the other services and give a few options in parental controls (1) Do Not allow explicit content (2) Restrict certain songs (3) Restrict certain artists.

I completely agree with this. I am searching for a safe platform for my kids to listen to music, where they can also grow up and I can change the limits to fit them as they mature. I would like to add possibilities for restrictions on podcasts as well. Right now I don’t have any control on the podcast recommendations. I cannot even say dislike to a podcast. 

Roadie
May 24, 2026

This is my big complaint with all of these services: they think there's either

  • A young child, who we want to fed Kids songs
  • An adult, with a full access to anything from songs with profanity to porn podcasts

I don't care the occasional bit of profanity, I can police that. But when the service is distributing adult podcasts and I have no way of filtering that without infantalizing my 11 year old, that's a problem.

Roadie
June 1, 2026

The podcasts are a major concern for me. I only recently joined Deezer as a trial to find an alternative to Spotify due to my son finding Spotify's podcast feature.

 

We are fairly permissive regarding music content, but of course we do keep an eye on it. By permissive, I mean that we are okay with our teen listening to plenty of music with "explicit content" ratings. 

 

However, podcasts are a completely different story, as they range in topic from entertainment categories to political content and even pornographic content by those who will play cat and mouse with a moderation team. These are video podcasts as well, so I will let you use your imagination regarding the content. I consider certain political content as similarly damaging, for teen boys, and that content is also difficult to effectively apply ratings to. 

 

I simply can't move forward with Deezer if I am unable to perform my own moderation as a parent. Parental controls centered around parents of young children absolutely need to exist, but are also completely inappropriate and useless for a parent of a teen. 

 

I understand that video content is a very lucrative part of any platform like Spotify or Deezer. I also understand that (even with AI), it's almost impossible to moderate at scale. Without a way to disable it for a sub-account, this makes its inclusion a blocker for informed parents.

 

I doubt Deezer would be able to implement the changes needed for my own needs within my trial window: that's a pretty unrealistic expectation for a platform. I do like this platform so far, though. I believe that I've outlined the use case clearly enough, so if the change is implemented I will likely be back.