How to hide Windows 10 apps from Child account

Hello Samo,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.

We understand your concern in this regard.

You can help your kids stay safe online by setting up child accounts for them and adding them to your family. So, they require a Microsoft account for configuring them under family safety. Having a Microsoft account for kids under family, will make activity history tracking easy, which will not be possible with Local account.

Coming to app restrictions on child account, you can able to restrict them by logging to your Microsoft account online. First go to account.microsoft.com/family. Once you login, go to Family page and Recent activity. There under Apps & games section, you can able to see the history of all apps accessed from your child account. In view of the same, they should access the game or app at least once from there account, so that it will appear under Apps& games section and allows you to block. You can block them from there, so blocking apps and games ensures they won’t work on Windows 10 devices. You can also limit apps, games, and media from the Windows Store from the Apps, games & media section.

Keep us posted if you require further assistance.

ukSamo - Excellent post, I have the exact same concerns.

I'm having the same concerns as the other 2 posters that I can't block the kids from downloading games and apps. Kids easily click any game or app, install and play.

Nothing shows up in the online account settings page to really lock their account down. Apps only show up once they've downloaded them..and even then, I'm not seeing all the game they play in the online list.

No website/content filtering on anything other than Edge (yeah.. I remember IE.. so no thanks no matter how many warnings I get that it's really super awesome). Really disappointed packet sniffing isn't part of the parental controls in windows 10 to block webtraffic.

Glad I went through the trouble of setting up gmails for the kids to start a microsoft account to have parental controls, only to find that it doesn't limit anything. I guess if they wanted to be ridiculed by their peers for having a windows phone, they could also install whatever games they wanted.

I guess now I have gmail accounts since I'll be installing chromeOS on this HP touchscreen. 

After doing a little checking I think the problem might be based on the way the account was setup.

If you created a child account and did not associate a credit card and pay the $1 fee, then the account doesn't gain the protections of the settings but can still log in.  Microsoft's explanation of the charge for a child account is rather shady, but it seems to be what's going on.  When your child logs in is there an alert that the account isn't properly setup, can't access something, etc and requires login?  That's because the account isn't fully established.  It winds up treated as an adult account.

Question for Microsoft.  Why would you do this?  The parental controls should always work even if you don't create an email account for them.