How to Disable Media App Thumbnails to Protect Children
There needs to be a way to disable the thumbnail previews and block certain channels for all of the media apps. We need to be able to block entirely and/or selectively. of the thumbnails feature click bait AI horror images meant for older audiences that my younger children can see without even entering the media apps or clicking on anything.
There should be a way to manually disable the thumbnails other than to delete these apps entirely.
We are a family of gamers and we don’t play any violent or horror games around the kids and no “child-friendly games” that, from what I’ve heard, allow people to easily access children through chat rooms.
However the thumbnail previews seem to be completely out of our control. I’ve tried a couple ways to disable them in privacy and user settings but we simply can’t control the thumbnail previews for the media apps. I like to be able to stream my gameplay when the kids are asleep. We don’t allow our children to consume much media content, but they do enjoy playing some of the cozy rated E games when we are around to monitor them and play together.
If someone knows of how to disable the thumbnail previews for media apps without deleting these media apps entirely please let me know in the comments.
Thank you for your help and consideration, PlayStation Family