Parental controls and settings for YouTube Kids profiles and supervised accounts

A supervised account is a Google Business relationship for your child where you can grant them admission to YouTube Kids and/or a supervised YouTube experience. If y'all don't want to create a supervised account for your child, yous tin can create a YouTube Kids profile instead. YouTube Kids lets signed in parents create a profile for their kid to use YouTube Kids on their own devices. YouTube Kids profiles can just be used with YouTube Kids. You tin make up one's mind what YouTube experience is best for your family, and there are several parental controls and settings available.

When you ready up a Google Account for your kid, yous tin set up parental controls for YouTube Kids and/or supervised YouTube experience through:

  • YouTube: Nether Parent Settings in your linked parent account's YouTube settings
  • Family Link: Under "YouTube Settings" or "YouTube Kids Settings" in the Family Link app

When you set up a YouTube Kids profile for your kid, you tin can gear up up parental controls for YouTube Kids through:

  • YouTube: Under Parent Settings in your linked parent account's YouTube settings
  • YouTube Kids: Under Parent Settings

View the parental controls and settings bachelor

Yous tin view and change the parental controls and settings for your child at whatsoever fourth dimension using YouTube Kids, YouTube or Family Link. At that place are also some settings that your kid tin control.

Use YouTube Kids

You can view parental controls and settings for YouTube Kids profiles from YouTube Kids:

  1. Select the Lock in the corner of your screen.
  2. Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
  3. Select Settings .

Note: There are some device settings, such as Cast and Custom Passcode, that you can modify without selecting your child'due south profile.

Use your linked parent account'south YouTube settings

To view parental controls and settings for supervised experiences or YouTube Kids profiles from your YouTube settings:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
  2. Go to  your contour motion picture .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.

      a. If you're on a computer, select Manage settings for your kids, adjacent to "Parent Settings."

Use the Family Link app

To view parental controls and settings for YouTube Kids profiles or supervised YouTube experiences from Family Link:

  1. On your device, open the Family unit Link appFamily Link.
  2. Select your kid.
  3. Tap Manage Settings and thenYouTube.
    1. Change your child'southward YouTube Kids settings, under "YouTube Kids Settings."
    2. Alter your child's supervised experience on YouTube settings, nether "YouTube Settings."
    3. Change settings that use to both YouTube and YouTube Kids, nether "General Settings."

Change specific parental controls and settings

You can tailor the YouTube Kids or supervised YouTube experience for your child past adjusting specific parental controls and settings. These controls and settings permit you:

  • Block or share content with your kid
  • Alter your kid's content level setting for YouTube Kids or their supervised YouTube experience
    • Annotation: You can also change your child's YouTube Kids content setting to Approved content merely using the YouTube Kids app.
  • Turn off the Search feature for YouTube Kids
  • Review your child'southward sentry history
    • Note: You'll need to apply your kid's device to review their watch history.
  • Clear your child's history
  • Pause your child'south watch history
  • Pause your kid's search history
  • Plow on YouTube Premium benefits for your child

Block or share content

Change your kid'due south content level settings for their YouTube Kids profile or their supervised experience on YouTube

Parents tin can cull how content will be selected in YouTube Kids or the supervised experience on YouTube.

Change the content level setting for your child's YouTube Kids profile from YouTube Kids:

Note: In addition to the content setting you choose for your kid, whatsoever content you share with them from YouTube will also be bachelor in YouTube Kids.

  1. Select the Lock in the corner of your screen.
  2. Consummate the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
  3. Select Settings.
  4. Select your child's profile and enter your parent account password.
  5. Select Preschool, Younger, Older, or Approve content yourself.
    • Note: If you want to alter the content setting to Approve content yourself, you'll have to employ the YouTube Kids app.

Modify your kid'south content level setting for YouTube or YouTube Kids from YouTube:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent business relationship.
  2. Go to  your profile flick .
  3. Select Settings.
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your kid'southward profile or business relationship.
  6. If yous'd like to change the content setting for their supervised experience on YouTube:
    • Under YouTube settings, select EDIT next to "Content Settings."
  7. If you'd like to change the content setting for their YouTube Kids profile:
    • Under YouTube Kids Settings, select EDIT next to "Content Settings."
      • Note: If yous want to alter their content setting to Approve content yourself, you lot accept to utilise the YouTube Kids app to make this alter.

If you lot manage your child's Google Account with Family Link, you can also change their content level setting for YouTube or YouTube Kids from the Family unit Link app:

  1. On your device, open the Family unit Link appFamily Link.
  2. Select your child.
  3. Tap Manage Settings and thenYouTube.
    1. Change your child'southward content level setting for YouTube Kids, under "YouTube Kids Settings."
    2. Alter your child's content level setting for their supervised experience on YouTube, under "YouTube Settings."

Note: You'll get a preview of content that is available in each content setting when yous click or tap the content setting's name. Y'all tin modify these settings at any time.

Approved content merely in YouTube Kids

In this setting, your child tin can only scout videos, channels, and collections that you've handpicked. Collections are videos and channels grouped by topics, such as science and music, picked by the YouTube Kids teams or by our partners.

In this setting, your child can't search for any videos in YouTube Kids.

YouTube Kids: How to approve what your kids can watch

To change your child'southward content setting to Approved content only:

  1. Open the YouTube Kids app on your child's device.
  2. Tap the Lock icon in the bottom corner of any folio in the app.
  3. Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
  4. Select Settings .
  5. Select your child'southward contour and enter your parent account password.
  6. Select Approved content onlyto plough on.
  7. Review the info in the "Getting Started" popular-upwardly.
  8. TapSelect.
  9. Tap icon on whatever drove, channel, or video to approve content you lot'd like to make available to your child.
  10. Select Washed in the ruddy box at the bottom of the screen to leave.

Note: You can edit the list of collections, channels, and videos you've approved at any time by tapping Manage nether the "Approved content only" setting. While you're approval content, you tin can preview what your kid's experience will exist like by tapping PREVIEW. You can also turn off "Approved content only" at whatsoever time by returning to Settings.

Turning off search for YouTube Kids

You tin can restrict your child to a more express set up of videos in YouTube Kids by turning off the Search feature.

With the Search feature turnedoff, your child can't search for videos. Your child will too be limited to videos and channels verified by YouTube Kids.

With the Search feature turnedon, your child tin can search for new videos that interest them from the millions bachelor in the YouTube Kids.

Note : Go along in listen that there's a chance your child may find something y'all don't want them to watch. You can study this content for our quick review.

To turn off the Search characteristic, switch Allow searching to Off in Settings .

If yous turn Search off, the watch and search history for your child's YouTube Kids profile cleared.Recommended videos and Watch it once againwill also be reset. Acquire more about Search in YouTube Kids.

Review your kid'south watch history

You tin can review your child'southward sentinel history for YouTube Kids in Lookout it once again.

On your child'southward mobile device or tablet:

  1. Tap Recommended  at the top of the habitation screen.
  2. Tap  to view Sentry it again videos.

On your child's computer:

  1. In the top corner of the screen, select your kid's profile picture to view the Watch it again videos.

Note: Simply videos viewed in YouTube Kids on that device will show upwards in Watch it over again.

You can review your child's watch history for their supervised account on your child's device:

  1. Go to the My Activity page.
  2. Select "YouTube History".
  3. Select "Manage activity".
  4. Scroll to get to all past action.

Articulate history

You can articulate the spotter and search history for your kid's account across all of their linked devices from YouTube:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
  2. Go to  your profile picture .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your child's profile or business relationship.
  6. Select Clear history.
  7. To save your changes, select Articulate.

You can also clear your kid's history, and reset videos on Recommended and Watch it again from YouTube Kids:

  1. Select the Lock in the corner of your screen.
  2. Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select your child's profile and enter your parent account password.
  5. Select Clear history.
  6. To save your changes, select OK.

Break watch history

You can stop new video views from beingness used as signals to recommend other videos. In YouTube Kids, this will too stop new video views from being used as signals for Recommended videos and Sentinel it again.

To pause your kid's sentinel history from YouTube Kids:

  1. Select the Lock in the corner of your screen.
  2. Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select your kid'due south profile and enter your parent account countersign.
  5. Switch "Interruption watch history" to On.
  6. To salve your changes, select OK.

To suspension your child's spotter history from YouTube:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
  2. Become to  your profile picture .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your kid'southward profile or business relationship.
  6. Switch "Pause watch history" to On.

Pause search history

You can finish new search terms from beingness used as signals to recommend other videos. In YouTube Kids, this will besides stop new search terms from being used as signals for Recommended videos.

To Suspension your kid'due south search history from YouTube Kids:

  1. Select the Lock in the corner of your screen.
  2. Complete the multiplication trouble or enter your custom passcode.
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select your child'due south contour and enter your parent account countersign.
  5. Switch "Intermission search history" to On.
  6. To save your changes, select OK.

To pause your child'southward search history from YouTube:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
  2. Go to  your profile motion-picture show .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your kid's profile or business relationship.
  6. Switch "Intermission search history" to On.

YouTube Premium

YouTube Premium Membership

Using YouTube Premium benefits with your child'south YouTube Kids profile:

You lot tin can apply your kid'south device to turn on and modify YouTube Premium benefits in the YouTube Kids app. Yous tin besides remove YouTube Premium from the kids app by tapping the Remove from app button. Removing YouTube Premium will also remove all downloaded YouTube videos on your device.

Using YouTube Premium benefits with your kid'southward supervised account:

To share YouTube Premium benefits with your kid'south supervised account, you'll need to gear up upwardly and manage a YouTube family program.

Groundwork & offline

Tap Background play to ready the YouTube Kids app to play videos while using other apps or when your screen is off.

Plow on downloads to relieve a list of up to 24 videos per profile. You tin can watch downloaded videos when you lot aren't continued to the internet. The app selects videos to download from:

  • Recommended videos, based on your kids watch history, or
  • If we don't have enough info, by what's popular on YouTube Kids.

Downloaded videos are updated automatically every 24 hrs. The Salve over Wi-Fi only setting lets you conserve mobile data by preventing the app from downloading new videos offline while you're continued to mobile data.

Change the storage limit and set the quality used for downloads. In general, lower quality videos accept upward less space on your device but may not play back as clearly.

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