Parental Controls

September 29, 2025

Parental Controls
We’re rolling out parental controls globally in ChatGPT to help families guide how ChatGPT works in their homes. Available starting on the web today, mobile soon.

To set up parental controls, a parent or guardian sends an invite to their teen to connect accounts. After the teen accepts, the parent can manage the teen’s settings from their own account. Teens can also invite a parent to connect.

Once a teen is connected to a parent’s account, they automatically receive additional content protections, such as reduced graphic content and viral challenges. Parents will have the option to turn this setting off if they choose, but teen users cannot make changes.

Parents don’t have access to their teen’s conversations, except in rare cases where our system and trained reviewers detect possible signs of serious safety risk, parents may be notified — but only with the information needed to support their teen’s safety. Parents can choose if they’d like to be contacted by email, SMS, push notification, or all three.

Parents can adjust certain features, set time limits, and add safeguards that work for their family including:

• Set quiet hours, or specific times when ChatGPT can’t be used.
• Turn off voice mode, to remove the option to use voice mode in ChatGPT.
• Turn off memory, so ChatGPT won’t save and use memories when responding.
• Remove image generation, so ChatGPT won’t have the ability to create or edit images.
• Opt out of model training, so their teen’s conversations won’t be used to improve models powering ChatGPT and Sora.

Introducing Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol
We’re introducing Instant Checkout in ChatGPT and the Agentic Commerce Protocol that powers it, built with Stripe.

ChatGPT can help you find anything on the web and now with Instant Checkout, you can seamlessly buy directly from the merchant, right in chat. Starting today, U.S. ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Free users can buy directly from U.S. Etsy sellers through ChatGPT, with over 1 million Shopify merchants, like Glossier, SKIMS, Spanx and Vuori, coming soon.

Instant Checkout
Instant Checkout makes it easy to go from chat to checkout in just a few taps.

• Ask ChatGPT a shopping question and it finds organic, unsponsored product results from across the web.
• Choose an item and ChatGPT shows where to buy, ranking merchants by factors like inventory, price, quality, primary seller status, and Instant Checkout availability.
• If Instant Checkout is offered, tap Buy, confirm shipping and payment details, and pay in one tap with your card on file or other express pay options.
• If Instant Checkout isn’t available, ChatGPT provides a direct link so you can purchase from the merchant’s site.

You’re in control at all times and give explicit confirmation to purchase. Payment goes directly from you to the merchant, not through OpenAI. Learn more about Instant Checkout.

Agentic Commerce Protocol
The Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) gives merchants and developers a way to build agentic commerce experiences that work with their current systems and connect them with 700M+ weekly active users on ChatGPT.

If you’re a merchant and want to add Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, apply on our merchant page. We’ll be accepting and onboarding merchants on a rolling basis.

Developers can start exploring the Agentic Commerce Protocol documentation and example implementations on GitHub.