Apple Launches New Guide to Help Families Build Healthy Digital Habits
CUPERTINO, Calif. — September 30, 2026 — Apple today announced the release of a new guide designed to help families build healthier digital habits. Developed in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the guide provides families with practical information for balancing technology use with sleep, exercise, schoolwork and time with friends and family.
The new resource is designed to complement Apple’s parental controls and provide families with guidance for creating a more balanced approach to technology in everyday life.
As digital devices become an increasingly integrated part of communication, education and entertainment, families are looking for practical ways to establish healthy technology routines. Apple’s new guide focuses on helping parents and caregivers consider how device use fits into broader daily activities.
The guide incorporates expert guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics and has been tailored to Apple’s parental-control features. This allows families to combine information about healthy digital habits with tools available on Apple devices.
Apple’s parental-control features provide families with options for managing aspects of children’s device experiences. The new resource adds educational guidance intended to help parents make informed decisions about technology use.
The guide encourages families to consider digital activity alongside other important parts of daily life, including adequate sleep, physical activity, education and social interaction.
Through its partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics, Apple is bringing pediatric guidance into a resource specifically designed around the company’s family and parental-control features.
The initiative represents Apple’s continued focus on providing families with tools and information to manage technology use in ways that fit their individual circumstances.
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