Understand YouTube & YouTube Kids options for your kid

What you demand

Pick one: YouTube Kids

How YouTube Kids works

The YouTube Kids app and web experience includes pop children's videos and new content, delivered in a manner that's safe and like shooting fish in a barrel to utilize for children.

Yous'll need to set upwardly YouTube Kids for your child earlier they tin can employ information technology.

Through Family Link, yous can:

  • Choose a content level setting
  • Choose to let your child apply the search function in YouTube Kids
  • Unblock videos

Change YouTube Kids settings

Important: Before y'all're able to update settings, you must grant your child access to YouTube Kids.

With the Family unit Link app

With the YouTube app

Option 2: YouTube supervised experience

Important: If your child is over 13 years old (or the applicative age in your land or region) and chooses to manage their own business relationship, you won't be able to supervise their experience on YouTube with these controls. If yous add supervision to their account, you can use Restricted Style to filter out potentially mature content.

How YouTube supervised experiences work

Supervised experiences on YouTube let your kid transition from YouTube Kids to YouTube with parental controls. With a supervised account, you can choose how much admission to give your child on YouTube, filter out unwanted content, and manage your child'southward screen time.

Through Family Link, you can:

  • Choose betwixt iii YouTube content level settings: Explore, Explore more, or Almost of YouTube.
  • Intermission Picket or Search history.
  • Unblock videos: Articulate the selection of videos and channels you blocked on YouTube Kids.
    • You can just block or unblock videos if you've set up YouTube Kids. When you block or unblock videos on YouTube Kids, the aforementioned videos are blocked on your child'south YouTube supervised account.

Learn more about all settings for supervised experiences on YouTube.

Who is eligible for a supervised experience on YouTube?

Alter content level settings on YouTube

With the Family unit Link app

With the YouTube app

  1. On your device, open the YouTube app YouTube.
  2. At the tiptop right, select your profile picture or initial.
  3. Select Parent settings.
  4. Choose your child.
  5. Under "YouTube Settings," tap Edit.
  6. Cull the content setting you desire to alter.
  7. To ostend, tap Select.

Update general settings for YouTube and YouTube Kids

These settings utilize to both YouTube and YouTube Kids.

With the Family Link app

With the YouTube app

  1. On your device, open YouTube app YouTube.
  2. At the pinnacle correct, select your contour picture show or initial.
  3. Select Parent settings.
  4. Select your child.
  5. Nether "General Settings," you tin can:
    • Turn Pause watch history or Pause search history on or off
    • Articulate Search and Watch history
    • Unblock videos
      • You lot can only block or unblock videos if you have set up upwardly YouTube Kids. When you block or unblock videos on YouTube Kids, the same videos are blocked on your kid's YouTube supervised account.

Add supervision to an existing Google Business relationship

If you add together supervision to an existing business relationship for a child under 13 (or the applicable historic period in your country or region), Google deletes subscriptions and this content on the business relationship:

  • YouTube videos, chats, and comments
  • Alive chats, posts, playlists, and stories
  • Purchased and rented YouTube videos

Tip: Before you set supervision, Google recommends that children download their data.

Turn Restricted Mode on or off

Once your child turns 13 (or the applicable age in your country or region), they'll accept access to YouTube without supervision. To help your child avoid most mature content, you lot tin can turn on Restricted mode.

To plow Restricted Manner on or off from Family Link:

  1. On your device, open up the Family Link app Family Link.
  2. Nether "Settings," select Manage settings and then Filters on YouTube.
  3. Plough Restricted Mode on or off.

Learn more than near Restricted Mode.

Related resources

  • FAQ for parents near supervised accounts
  • What is a supervised experience on YouTube?
  • Manage screen time limits

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