Parental controls & settings for YouTube Kids profiles & supervised accounts

A supervised account is a Google Account for your child where you tin grant them admission to YouTube Kids and/or a supervised YouTube experience. If yous don't want 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 ain devices. YouTube Kids profiles can only be used with YouTube Kids. You can make up one's mind what YouTube feel is best for your family, and there are several parental controls and settings available.

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

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

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

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

View the parental controls & settings available

You can view and change the parental controls and settings for your child at whatever time using YouTube Kids, YouTube, or Family unit Link. There are also some settings that your kid can 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 .

Notation: There are some device settings, such as Cast and Custom Passcode, that you can modify without selecting your kid's profile.

Utilise 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. Go to your profile movie .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.

      a. If y'all're on a computer, 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 unit Link:

  1. On your device, open up the Family unit Link appFamily Link.
  2. Select your kid.
  3. Tap Manage Settings and then YouTube.
    1. Alter your child's YouTube Kids settings, under "YouTube Kids Settings."
    2. Change your child'south supervised feel on YouTube settings, under "YouTube Settings."
    3. Change settings that employ to both YouTube and YouTube Kids, under "General Settings."

Alter specific parental controls & settings

Y'all can tailor the YouTube Kids or supervised YouTube feel for your child by adjusting specific parental controls and settings. These controls and settings let you lot:

  • Block or share content with your child
  • Modify your child's content level setting for YouTube Kids or their supervised YouTube experience
    • Notation: You can besides alter your child'due south YouTube Kids content setting to Approved content simply using the YouTube Kids app.
  • Plough off the Search characteristic for YouTube Kids
  • Review your child'south watch history
    • Note: You'll need to apply your child's device to review their watch history.
  • Articulate your child's history
  • Disable autoplay
  • Pause your child's spotter history
  • Intermission your child's search history
  • Turn on YouTube Premium benefits for your kid

Block or share content

Modify your child'south content level settings for their YouTube Kids contour or their supervised experience on YouTube

Parents can choose 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 improver to the content setting you choose for your child, any content you share with them from YouTube will also be 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's profile and enter your parent business relationship password.
  5. Select Preschool, Younger, Older, or Corroborate content yourself.
    • Notation: If you desire to change the content setting to Approve content yourself, you'll have to use the YouTube Kids app.

Change your kid'southward content level setting for YouTube or YouTube Kids 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. If you'd similar to change the content setting for their supervised experience on YouTube:
    • Under YouTube settings, select EDIT side by side to "Content Settings."
  7. If you'd like to change the content setting for their YouTube Kids profile:
    • Nether YouTube Kids Settings, select EDIT side by side to "Content Settings."
      • Annotation: If you lot desire to change their content setting to Approve content yourself, you have to utilize the YouTube Kids app to make this change.

If you lot manage your child'due south Google Account with Family Link, yous can also alter 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. Alter your child'due south content level setting for YouTube Kids, nether "YouTube Kids Settings."
    2. Modify your child's content level setting for their supervised feel on YouTube, under "YouTube Settings."

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

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 corroborate what your kids can watch

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

  1. Open the YouTube Kids app on your child'south 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'southward profile and enter your parent account password.
  6. Select Approved content just to plow on.
  7. Review the info in the "Getting Started" pop-up.
  8. Tap Select.
  9. Tap icon on whatever collection, aqueduct, or video to approve content you'd like to brand bachelor to your kid.
  10. Select Done in the reddish box at the bottom of the screen to exit.

Notation: Yous can edit the list of collections, channels, and videos you've approved at whatsoever time by tapping Manage under the "Approved content just" setting. While y'all're approving content, you lot can preview what your child'south experience will be like past tapping PREVIEW. Y'all can also plough off "Approved content only" at any time by returning to Settings.

Turning off search for YouTube Kids

You can restrict your kid to a more limited 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 characteristic turned on, your child tin can search for new videos that interest them from the millions available in the YouTube Kids.

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

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

If y'all turn off Search, the lookout man and search history for your kid's YouTube Kids profile is cleared.Recommended videos and Lookout it again will likewise be reset. Learn more than about Search in YouTube Kids.

Review your child'due south lookout man history

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

On your child'south mobile device or tablet:

  1. TapRecommended  at the top of the domicile screen.
  2. Tap to viewScout it again videos.

On your kid'southward calculator:

  • In the top corner of the screen, select your child'southward profile picture to view the Watch it once again videos.

Notation: Merely videos viewed in YouTube Kids on that device volition show up in Watch it again.

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

  1. Become to the My Activity folio.
  2. Select "YouTube History".
  3. Select "Manage activity".
  4. Scroll to become to all by activity.

Clear history

You lot tin articulate the watch and search history for your child's business relationship across all of their linked devices from YouTube:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
  2. Go to your contour moving picture .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your child'due south profile or account.
  6. Select Clear history.
  7. To relieve your changes, select Articulate.

You tin can likewise clear your child'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'south profile and enter your parent account password.
  5. Select Articulate history.
  6. To save your changes, select OK.

Disable autoplay

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

To disable autoplay for your kid from YouTube:

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

Pause watch history

Yous 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 equally signals for Recommended videos and Watch it over again.

To pause your child's watch history from 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. Switch "Pause sentry history" to On.
  6. To relieve your changes, select OK.

To pause your child's watch 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 kid'due south contour or business relationship.
  6. Switch "Pause sentinel history" to On.

Break search history

You tin can terminate new search terms from existence used equally signals to recommend other videos. In YouTube Kids, this will also stop new search terms from being used every bit signals for Recommended videos.

To Intermission your kid's search history from 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. Switch "Interruption search history" to On.
  6. To salvage your changes, select OK.

To pause your child'southward search history from YouTube:

  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.
  5. Select your child's profile or business relationship.
  6. Switch "Intermission search history" to On.

YouTube Premium

YouTube Premium Membership

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

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

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

To share YouTube Premium benefits with your child's supervised account, you'll need to fix up and manage a YouTube family plan.

Background & offline

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

Plow on downloads to salvage a list of up to 24 videos per profile. Y'all can watch downloaded videos when you aren't connected to the internet. The app selects videos to download from:

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

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

Modify the storage limit and set the quality used for downloads. In full general, lower quality videos take up less space on your device but may non play back as clearly.

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