Parental controls & settings for YouTube Kids profiles & supervised accounts

A supervised account is a Google Account for your kid where y'all tin can grant them access to YouTube Kids and/or a supervised YouTube experience. If you lot don't desire to create a supervised account for your kid, you can create a YouTube Kids profile instead. YouTube Kids lets signed in parents create a profile for their child to use YouTube Kids on their own devices. YouTube Kids profiles tin can only be used with YouTube Kids. You tin can decide what YouTube experience is all-time for your family, and in that location are several parental controls and settings available.

When you set up a Google Account for your child, you lot can set upward parental controls for YouTube Kids and/or supervised YouTube experience through:

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

When you fix a YouTube Kids contour for your child, you tin gear up parental controls for YouTube Kids through:

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

View the parental controls & settings available

You can view and alter the parental controls and settings for your child at any time using YouTube Kids, YouTube, or Family Link. In that location are as well some settings that your kid can control.

Employ 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 equally Cast and Custom Passcode, that you can alter without selecting your child's contour.

Use your linked parent account'southward 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 profile film .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.

      a. If yous're on a computer, select Manage settings for your kids, side by side 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 up the Family Link appFamily Link.
  2. Select your child.
  3. Tap Manage Settings and then YouTube.
    1. Change your child'south YouTube Kids settings, under "YouTube Kids Settings."
    2. Modify your child'due south supervised feel on YouTube settings, under "YouTube Settings."
    3. Change settings that use to both YouTube and YouTube Kids, under "General Settings."

Change specific parental controls & settings

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

  • Cake or share content with your child
  • Modify your child's content level setting for YouTube Kids or their supervised YouTube experience
    • Notation: You tin also change your kid'southward YouTube Kids content setting to Approved content only using the YouTube Kids app.
  • Turn off the Search characteristic for YouTube Kids
  • Review your child'south watch history
    • Annotation: You'll need to use your child's device to review their watch history.
  • Clear your child's history
  • Disable autoplay
  • Intermission your child's watch history
  • Pause your kid'due south search history
  • Turn on YouTube Premium benefits for your child

Block or share content

Change your child's content level settings for their YouTube Kids profile or their supervised experience on YouTube

Parents can choose how content volition exist selected in YouTube Kids or the supervised experience on YouTube.

Change the content level setting for your child'southward YouTube Kids contour from YouTube Kids:

Note: In improver to the content setting you choose for your child, 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 kid's profile and enter your parent account password.
  5. Select Preschool, Younger, Older, or Approve content yourself.
    • Note: If you want to modify the content setting to Corroborate content yourself, you'll accept to use the YouTube Kids app.

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

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent business relationship.
  2. Get to your profile pic .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your child's profile or account.
  6. If you'd like to change the content setting for their supervised feel on YouTube:
    • Under YouTube settings, select EDIT next to "Content Settings."
  7. If you'd similar to alter the content setting for their YouTube Kids profile:
    • Under YouTube Kids Settings, select EDIT next to "Content Settings."
      • Annotation: If you want to alter their content setting to Approve content yourself, you accept to use the YouTube Kids app to make this change.

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

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

Note: You'll become a preview of content that is available in each content setting when you click or tap the content setting'due south name. You tin can change these settings at any fourth dimension.

Approved content merely in YouTube Kids

In this setting, your kid can only watch videos, channels, and collections that yous've handpicked. Collections are videos and channels grouped by topics, such equally 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 tin can watch

To change your kid's content setting to Canonical content only:

  1. Open the YouTube Kids app on your child's device.
  2. Tap the Lock icon in the bottom corner of any page in the app.
  3. Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
  4. Select Settings .
  5. Select your child's profile and enter your parent account countersign.
  6. Select Approved content just to plough on.
  7. Review the info in the "Getting Started" popular-upwards.
  8. Tap Select.
  9. Tap icon on any collection, channel, or video to approve content y'all'd similar to make available to your child.
  10. Select DONE in the ruddy box at the bottom of the screen to leave.

Note: You lot tin edit the list of collections, channels, and videos yous've approved at whatsoever time by borer Manage under the "Approved content only" setting. While you're approving content, you can preview what your child's experience volition be similar by borer PREVIEW. You lot can besides plow off "Approved content only" at any time past returning to Settings.

Turning off search for YouTube Kids

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

With the Search feature turned off, your child can't search for videos. Your child volition also be express to videos and channels verified by YouTube Kids.

With the Search feature turned on, your child can search for new videos that interest them from the millions available in the YouTube Kids.

Note : Keep in mind that at that place's a take a chance your child may find something you don't want them to watch. You tin written report this content for our quick review.

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

If you plough off Search, the watch and search history for your child'due south YouTube Kids contour is cleared.Recommended videos and Watch information technology once more volition besides be reset. Learn more virtually Search in YouTube Kids.

Review your child's watch history

You can review your child's lookout man history for YouTube Kids in Watch it again.

On your child'south mobile device or tablet:

  • Tap Sentinel it again at the top of the domicile screen.

On your kid'south computer:

  • In the top corner of the screen, select your child's profile picture to view the Watch information technology once more videos.

Notation: Simply videos viewed in YouTube Kids on that device volition show up in Watch information technology again.

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

  1. Go to the My Activity folio.
  2. Select "YouTube History".
  3. Select "Manage activeness".
  4. Gyre to go to all by activity.

Clear history

You tin can clear the watch and search history for your child's account across all of their linked devices 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 child's profile or business relationship.
  6. Select Clear history.
  7. To save your changes, select CLEAR.

You tin also articulate your kid'southward history, and reset videos on Recommended and Watch it once more 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's contour and enter your parent account countersign.
  5. Select Clear history.
  6. To save your changes, select OK.

Disable autoplay

Y'all tin plow off Autoplay for your kid by selecting Disable autoplay. Your child tin can't turn on Autoplay when this setting is on.

To disable autoplay for your child from YouTube:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent business relationship.
  2. Go to your profile picture .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your kid's profile or account.
  6. Switch "Disable autoplay" to On.

Suspension watch history

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

To pause your child's watch 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 child's contour and enter your parent account password.
  5. Switch "Pause lookout man history" to On.
  6. To save your changes, select OK.

To pause your kid'south watch history from YouTube:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent business relationship.
  2. Get to your profile picture .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your child's contour or business relationship.
  6. Switch "Suspension watch history" to On.

Pause search history

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

To Pause your child'due south search 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 child's profile and enter your parent business relationship password.
  5. Switch "Pause search history" to On.
  6. To salve your changes, select OK.

To intermission your child'southward search history 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 account.
  6. Switch "Pause search history" to On.

YouTube Premium

YouTube Premium Membership

Using YouTube Premium benefits with your kid's YouTube Kids profile:

You can use your child'southward device to turn on and modify YouTube Premium benefits in the YouTube Kids app. You can too remove YouTube Premium from the kids app by tapping the Remove from app push button. Removing YouTube Premium will also remove all downloaded YouTube videos on your device.

Using YouTube Premium benefits with your kid'due south supervised account:

To share YouTube Premium benefits with your kid'south supervised business relationship, yous'll need to gear up upwardly and manage a YouTube family plan.

Background & offline

Tap Groundwork play to set up the YouTube Kids app to play videos while using other apps or when your screen is off.

Turn on downloads to salve a list of upwardly to 24 videos per profile. You can watch downloaded videos when you lot aren't connected to the internet. The app selects videos to download from:

  • Recommended videos, based on your kids sentinel history, or
  • If we don't have plenty info, past what's popular on YouTube Kids.

Downloaded videos are updated automatically every 24 hrs. The Save 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 take up less space on your device but may not play back as clearly.

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