Parental controls & settings for YouTube Kids profiles & supervised accounts

A supervised business relationship is a Google Account for your child where yous tin grant them access to YouTube Kids and/or a supervised YouTube experience. If you 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 contour for their child to employ YouTube Kids on their own devices. YouTube Kids profiles tin can but be used with YouTube Kids. You can decide what YouTube feel is best for your family unit, and in that location are several parental controls and settings available.

When you fix a Google Account for your kid, you can gear 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 unit Link: Nether "YouTube Settings" or "YouTube Kids Settings" in the Family Link app

When you lot set a YouTube Kids profile for your child, y'all can prepare 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 lot can view and change the parental controls and settings for your child at any time using YouTube Kids, YouTube, or Family Link. In that location are also some settings that your kid tin 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 .

Note: There are some device settings, such every bit Bandage and Custom Passcode, that you tin change without selecting your kid'southward profile.

Use your linked parent account'due 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 moving picture .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.

      a. If you're on a calculator, 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 the Family Link appFamily Link.
  2. Select your child.
  3. Tap Manage Settings and then YouTube.
    1. Change your child's YouTube Kids settings, under "YouTube Kids Settings."
    2. Modify your child'southward supervised experience on YouTube settings, under "YouTube Settings."
    3. Change settings that apply to both YouTube and YouTube Kids, nether "General Settings."

Change specific parental controls & settings

You can tailor the YouTube Kids or supervised YouTube feel for your kid by adjusting specific parental controls and settings. These controls and settings let y'all:

  • Cake or share content with your child
  • Change your child'southward content level setting for YouTube Kids or their supervised YouTube experience
    • Note: You can likewise change your kid's YouTube Kids content setting to Canonical content only using the YouTube Kids app.
  • Turn off the Search characteristic for YouTube Kids
  • Review your child's watch history
    • Note: You'll need to use your child's device to review their spotter history.
  • Clear your child's history
  • Disable autoplay
  • Pause your child's watch history
  • Interruption your child's search history
  • Turn on YouTube Premium benefits for your child

Block or share content

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

Parents can choose how content will exist 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:

Annotation: In addition to the content setting you lot cull for your child, whatever 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 kid'due south profile and enter your parent account password.
  5. Select Preschool, Younger, Older, or Approve content yourself.
    • Notation: If you desire to change the content setting to Approve content yourself, y'all'll have to apply 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 account.
  2. Get to your profile motion-picture show .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your child's profile or account.
  6. If you'd like to modify the content setting for their supervised experience on YouTube:
    • Under YouTube settings, select EDIT side by side to "Content Settings."
  7. If you lot'd similar to alter the content setting for their YouTube Kids profile:
    • Nether YouTube Kids Settings, select EDIT side by side to "Content Settings."
      • Note: If yous desire to change their content setting to Corroborate content yourself, you lot have to utilize the YouTube Kids app to brand this change.

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

  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's content level setting for YouTube Kids, nether "YouTube Kids Settings."
    2. Change your child's content level setting for their supervised experience on YouTube, nether "YouTube Settings."

Note: You'll go a preview of content that is bachelor in each content setting when y'all click or tap the content setting's name. You lot can change these settings at any time.

Canonical content simply in YouTube Kids

In this setting, your kid tin but watch videos, channels, and collections that you've handpicked. Collections are videos and channels grouped past topics, such as science and music, picked by the YouTube Kids teams or past 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 modify your child's content setting to Approved content but:

  1. Open up the YouTube Kids app on your child's device.
  2. Tap the Lock icon in the lesser corner of any page in the app.
  3. Complete the multiplication trouble or enter your custom passcode.
  4. Select Settings .
  5. Select your child's profile and enter your parent account password.
  6. Select Approved content only to plow on.
  7. Review the info in the "Getting Started" popular-up.
  8. Tap Select.
  9. Tap icon on any collection, channel, or video to corroborate content yous'd like to make available to your child.
  10. Select Washed in the red box at the bottom of the screen to leave.

Note: You lot tin can edit the listing of collections, channels, and videos yous've approved at any time by tapping Manage under the "Canonical content only" setting. While y'all're approving content, you can preview what your child's experience will exist like past tapping PREVIEW. You can besides plough off "Approved content simply" at whatever time past returning to Settings.

Turning off search for YouTube Kids

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

With the Search characteristic 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 child can search for new videos that interest them from the millions available in the YouTube Kids.

Note : Continue in mind that there'southward a chance your child may observe something you lot don't want them to watch. You can report this content for our quick review.

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

If you turn off Search, the watch and search history for your child'southward YouTube Kids profile is cleared.Recommended videos and Sentinel it again will also be reset. Learn more than well-nigh Search in YouTube Kids.

Review your child's spotter history

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

On your child's mobile device or tablet:

  • Tap Watch it again at the superlative of the dwelling screen.

On your kid'southward computer:

  • In the superlative corner of the screen, select your child's contour moving-picture show to view the Watch information technology again videos.

Note: Only videos viewed in YouTube Kids on that device will show up in Spotter it once more.

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

  1. Go to the My Activeness page.
  2. Select "YouTube History".
  3. Select "Manage action".
  4. Curlicue to go to all past activity.

Clear history

You lot can clear the scout and search history for your kid'south account across all of their linked devices from YouTube:

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

Yous tin can also clear your child'southward 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 salvage your changes, select OK.

Disable autoplay

Y'all tin turn off Autoplay for your child by selecting Disable autoplay. Your kid 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'due south profile or account.
  6. Switch "Disable autoplay" to On.

Pause spotter history

You lot tin can stop new video views from being used equally signals to recommend other videos. In YouTube Kids, this volition likewise stop new video views from being used as signals for Recommended videos and Watch it again.

To pause your child's spotter 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 countersign.
  5. Switch "Pause watch history" to On.
  6. To salvage your changes, select OK.

To suspension your child's spotter history from YouTube:

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

Pause search history

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

To Interruption your child'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's profile and enter your parent account countersign.
  5. Switch "Interruption 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 contour pic .
  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 child'south YouTube Kids profile:

You lot can utilize your kid's device to turn on and modify YouTube Premium benefits in the YouTube Kids app. You lot tin can also remove YouTube Premium from the kids app by borer the Remove from app button. Removing YouTube Premium will also 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's supervised account, y'all'll need to set 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 salvage a list of up to 24 videos per profile. Y'all can watch downloaded videos when y'all aren't connected to the cyberspace. The app selects videos to download from:

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

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

Alter the storage limit and set the quality used for downloads. In general, lower quality videos take upwardly less space on your device but may not play dorsum as clearly.

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