Parental controls & settings for YouTube Kids profiles & supervised accounts

A supervised account is a Google Account for your child where yous can grant them access to YouTube Kids and/or a supervised YouTube feel. If you don't desire to create a supervised business relationship for your child, yous 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 simply exist used with YouTube Kids. You can determine what YouTube experience is best for your family, and there are several parental controls and settings available.

When y'all prepare a Google Account for your child, you tin set up parental controls for YouTube Kids and/or supervised YouTube experience through:

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

When you lot set up upwards a YouTube Kids contour for your child, yous can set 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 & settings bachelor

You can view and modify the parental controls and settings for your child at whatsoever time using YouTube Kids, YouTube, or Family Link. There are also some settings that your child tin can control.

Use YouTube Kids

Y'all tin 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 .

Notation: In that location are some device settings, such every bit Bandage and Custom Passcode, that you can alter without selecting your child's profile.

Employ your linked parent account's 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. Become to your profile moving-picture show .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.

      a. If you're on a estimator, select Manage settings for your kids, next 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 Link appFamily Link.
  2. Select your kid.
  3. Tap Manage Settings and then YouTube.
    1. Change your child'south YouTube Kids settings, under "YouTube Kids Settings."
    2. Change your child's supervised feel on YouTube settings, under "YouTube Settings."
    3. Change settings that apply to both YouTube and YouTube Kids, under "General Settings."

Change specific parental controls & settings

Yous tin tailor the YouTube Kids or supervised YouTube experience for your child by adjusting specific parental controls and settings. These controls and settings let you:

  • Block or share content with your child
  • Change your kid's content level setting for YouTube Kids or their supervised YouTube experience
    • Notation: Y'all tin can also change your kid's YouTube Kids content setting to Approved content merely using the YouTube Kids app.
  • Turn off the Search characteristic for YouTube Kids
  • Review your child's lookout history
    • Note: Y'all'll need to use your kid's device to review their scout history.
  • Clear your child'due south history
  • Disable autoplay
  • Pause your child's watch history
  • Break your kid's search history
  • Turn on YouTube Premium benefits for your child

Block or share content

Alter your kid'southward content level settings for their YouTube Kids profile or their supervised experience on YouTube

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

Alter the content level setting for your child'south YouTube Kids contour from YouTube Kids:

Note: In addition to the content setting yous cull for your kid, any content you share with them from YouTube will also exist available in 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'southward profile and enter your parent account password.
  5. Select Preschool, Younger, Older, or Approve content yourself.
    • Notation: If you desire to modify the content setting to Approve content yourself, you lot'll take to utilise the YouTube Kids app.

Alter your child'southward content level setting for YouTube or YouTube Kids from YouTube:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
  2. Get to your contour picture .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your child'south profile or account.
  6. If you'd similar 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 contour:
    • Nether YouTube Kids Settings, select EDIT next to "Content Settings."
      • Note: If you desire to change their content setting to Approve content yourself, you have to use the YouTube Kids app to brand this change.

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

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

Notation: You'll get a preview of content that is available in each content setting when yous click or tap the content setting's name. You can change these settings at whatever time.

Approved content only in YouTube Kids

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

In this setting, your kid tin't search for any videos in YouTube Kids.

YouTube Kids: How to corroborate what your kids can watch

To change your child's content setting to Approved content merely:

  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 trouble or enter your custom passcode.
  4. Select Settings .
  5. Select your child'south contour and enter your parent account password.
  6. Select Approved content only to turn on.
  7. Review the info in the "Getting Started" popular-up.
  8. Tap Select.
  9. Tap icon on whatsoever collection, channel, or video to corroborate content you'd like to make available to your kid.
  10. Select DONE in the ruby box at the bottom of the screen to exit.

Annotation: You can edit the list of collections, channels, and videos you've approved at whatsoever fourth dimension past tapping Manage under the "Approved content only" setting. While you're approval content, y'all can preview what your child's feel will be like past tapping PREVIEW. You can too plow off "Approved content only" at any fourth dimension by returning to Settings.

Turning off search for YouTube Kids

Y'all 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 will also be limited to videos and channels verified by YouTube Kids.

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

Note : Go along in mind that there's a risk your child may find something you don't desire them to lookout man. You tin report this content for our quick review.

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

If you turn off Search, the watch and search history for your kid's YouTube Kids profile is cleared.Recommended videos and Watch it over again will also be reset. Learn more than about Search in YouTube Kids.

Review your child'due south watch history

Yous tin review your kid's sentry history for YouTube Kids in Picket it once more.

On your kid's mobile device or tablet:

  1. TapRecommended  at the top of the domicile screen.
  2. Tap to viewSentry information technology again videos.

On your child's computer:

  • In the top corner of the screen, select your kid'due south contour picture to view the Watch it once more videos.

Note: Only videos viewed in YouTube Kids on that device volition bear witness up in Watch it again.

You tin can review your kid'south watch history for their supervised account on your child'south device:

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

Clear history

You tin articulate the lookout and search history for your child'southward account across all of their linked devices from YouTube:

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

You lot tin can also clear your kid's history, and reset videos on Recommended and Spotter 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 Articulate history.
  6. To save your changes, select OK.

Disable autoplay

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

To disable autoplay for your child 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'south profile or business relationship.
  6. Switch "Disable autoplay" to On.

Intermission lookout history

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

To interruption your kid'south picket 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 account password.
  5. Switch "Interruption sentinel history" to On.
  6. To salvage your changes, select OK.

To pause your child's watch history from YouTube:

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

Break search history

You can terminate new search terms from being used as signals to recommend other videos. In YouTube Kids, this will 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 account password.
  5. Switch "Pause search history" to On.
  6. To save your changes, select OK.

To pause your child's search history from YouTube:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
  2. Go to your profile picture show .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your child'due south contour or business relationship.
  6. Switch "Break search history" to On.

YouTube Premium

YouTube Premium Membership

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

You can utilize your child's device to plough on and modify YouTube Premium benefits in the YouTube Kids app. You lot can as well remove YouTube Premium from the kids app past tapping the Remove from app button. Removing YouTube Premium will as well remove all downloaded YouTube videos on your device.

Using YouTube Premium benefits with your child's supervised account:

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

Background & offline

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

Turn on downloads to salve a listing of up to 24 videos per profile. Yous can spotter downloaded videos when y'all aren't connected 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, past what'due south 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 connected to mobile information.

Change the storage limit and fix 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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