Web content filter configuration (iOS device policy)

Restriction

This configuration only applies to supervised devices.

The Web content filter configuration lets you filter web pages in Safari and other web browsers.

Tip

In addition to filtering web pages on supervised devices, you can use the Web content filter configuration to filter the network traffic of individual apps on non-supervised devices. See Assign a web content filter to iPhone and iPad apps.

You have the following options:

Plugin: Use a third-party filtering app.
Blocked URLs: Configure web pages that users can’t access. All other pages are allowed.
Allowed URLs: Configure web pages that users can access. All other pages are blocked.

Plugin

Setting	Description
Filter name	A custom name for the filter configuration.
Filter ID	The bundle ID of the third-party app.
Server	The name, IP address, or URL of the server that hosts the filtering service.
Organization	The name of your organization, if required by the filtering service.
User name	The username for connecting to the filtering service.
Password	The password for connecting to the filtering service.
Certificate	The certificate for authenticating to the filtering service.
Filter browser traffic	Filter web pages in Safari and other web browsers.
Filter socket traffic	Filter network traffic from apps.
Third-party settings	Additional settings, if required by the filtering service.

Blocked URLs

Setting Description

Block adult content Use an Apple filter to block web pages allowed by your rules if they are unsuitable for children.

Blocked URLs

URLs that users aren’t allowed to access.

Enter one URL per line.

When Safari matches a URL, it ignores any protocol, path, or subdomain that you enter here.

For example when you enter example.com/a, the following URLs match:

example.com
example.com/a
example.com/b
example.com/a/b/c
m.example.com

Allowed URLs

Setting	Description
Block adult content	Use an Apple filter to block web pages allowed by your rules if they are unsuitable for children.
URL	A URL that users are allowed to access. When Safari matches a URL, it ignores any protocol, path, or subdomain that you enter here. For example when you enter `example.com/a`, the following URLs match: `example.com` `example.com/a` `example.com/b` `example.com/a/b/c` `m.example.com`
Bookmark folder	The folder to which the bookmark is added in Safari. If you don’t enter a folder, the bookmark is added to the default bookmarks folder.
Bookmark title	The bookmark’s name in Safari.