Parental controls and settings for YouTube Kids profiles and supervised accounts

A supervised business relationship is a Google Business relationship for your child where you lot tin grant them admission to YouTube Kids and/or a supervised YouTube experience. If you don't desire to create a supervised account for your child, you lot can create a YouTube Kids contour instead. YouTube Kids lets signed in parents create a profile for their child to use YouTube Kids on their own devices. YouTube Kids profiles can just exist used with YouTube Kids. You can determine what YouTube feel is best for your family unit, and there are several parental controls and settings available.

When yous set up a Google Business relationship for your kid, you can prepare parental controls for YouTube Kids and/or supervised YouTube feel through:

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

When you set upward a YouTube Kids contour for your child, y'all tin set 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 and settings bachelor

You can view and change the parental controls and settings for your child at whatsoever fourth dimension using YouTube Kids, YouTube or Family unit Link. At that place 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 tin change without selecting your child'due south profile.

Use 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 contour picture show .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.

      a. If y'all'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 unit Link:

  1. On your device, open up the Family Link appFamily Link.
  2. Select your child.
  3. Tap Manage Settings and thenYouTube.
    1. Change your child'due south YouTube Kids settings, under "YouTube Kids Settings."
    2. Alter your child's supervised feel on YouTube settings, under "YouTube Settings."
    3. Change settings that utilize to both YouTube and YouTube Kids, nether "Full general Settings."

Change specific parental controls and settings

You can tailor the YouTube Kids or supervised YouTube experience for your child by adjusting specific parental controls and settings. These controls and settings permit you:

  • Cake or share content with your child
  • Modify your child'due south content level setting for YouTube Kids or their supervised YouTube experience
    • Note: You lot can also change your child's YouTube Kids content setting to Approved content just using the YouTube Kids app.
  • Turn off the Search feature for YouTube Kids
  • Review your child's watch history
    • Note: Yous'll demand to use your child's device to review their sentry history.
  • Clear your child's history
  • Break your child'south lookout man history
  • Pause your kid's search history
  • Plow on YouTube Premium benefits for your child

Cake 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.

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

Note: In addition to the content setting you choose for your kid, any content you lot share with them from YouTube will too 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 contour and enter your parent account password.
  5. Select Preschool, Younger, Older, or Approve content yourself.
    • Note: If you want to change the content setting to Approve content yourself, y'all'll have to use the YouTube Kids app.

Change your kid's 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'due south profile or account.
  6. If yous'd like to change the content setting for their supervised experience on YouTube:
    • Nether YouTube settings, select EDIT adjacent to "Content Settings."
  7. If you'd like to change the content setting for their YouTube Kids profile:
    • Under YouTube Kids Settings, select EDIT next to "Content Settings."
      • Annotation: If y'all desire to alter their content setting to Approve content yourself, you have to use the YouTube Kids app to make this change.

If yous manage your child's Google Account with Family Link, you 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 thenYouTube.
    1. Change your kid's content level setting for YouTube Kids, under "YouTube Kids Settings."
    2. Modify your child'southward content level setting for their supervised feel on YouTube, under "YouTube Settings."

Notation: Y'all'll go a preview of content that is bachelor in each content setting when you click or tap the content setting's name. You tin can change these settings at any fourth dimension.

Approved content merely in YouTube Kids

In this setting, your child tin can only watch 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 approve what your kids can watch

To change your kid'southward content setting to Approved 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 password.
  6. Select Approved content butto plow on.
  7. Review the info in the "Getting Started" pop-upwardly.
  8. TapSelect.
  9. Tap icon on any collection, channel, or video to approve content you'd like to make available to your kid.
  10. Select Done in the blood-red box at the lesser of the screen to exit.

Note: You tin can edit the list of collections, channels, and videos you've approved at any time by tapping Manage under the "Approved content only" setting. While you're blessing content, you can preview what your kid'south experience will be similar by tapping PREVIEW. Yous tin also turn off "Canonical content simply" at whatever fourth dimension by returning to Settings.

Turning off search for YouTube Kids

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

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

With the Search feature turnedon, your kid tin can search for new videos that interest them from the millions available in the YouTube Kids.

Note : Keep in heed that there's a chance your child may find something you don't want them to scout. Yous can report this content for our quick review.

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

If you turn Search off, the watch and search history for your child's YouTube Kids profile cleared.Recommended videos and Watch information technology againwill also exist reset. Learn more about Search in YouTube Kids.

Review your child'south watch history

You tin review your kid's picket history for YouTube Kids in Watch it again.

On your child's mobile device or tablet:

  1. Tap Recommended  at the top of the home screen.
  2. Tap  to view Watch it over again videos.

On your child's computer:

  1. In the acme corner of the screen, select your child'southward profile picture show to view the Watch information technology again videos.

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

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

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

Clear history

You lot can clear the lookout man and search history for your child's account beyond all of their linked devices from YouTube:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent business relationship.
  2. Become to  your profile motion picture .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your kid'south profile or business relationship.
  6. Select Clear history.
  7. To relieve your changes, select Articulate.

You can also articulate your kid'south 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 problem or enter your custom passcode.
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select your child'southward profile and enter your parent account countersign.
  5. Select Clear history.
  6. To salve your changes, select OK.

Pause lookout history

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

To pause your child's lookout 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 watch history" to On.
  6. To save 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 child's profile or business relationship.
  6. Switch "Pause picket history" to On.

Pause search history

You lot can stop new search terms from being used as signals to recommend other videos. In YouTube Kids, this will too stop new search terms from existence used every bit signals for Recommended videos.

To Break your child's 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'due south profile and enter your parent account password.
  5. Switch "Interruption search history" to On.
  6. To save 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 motion-picture show .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
  5. Select your kid's contour or account.
  6. Switch "Intermission search history" to On.

YouTube Premium

YouTube Premium Membership

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

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

Using YouTube Premium benefits with your child's supervised business relationship:

To share YouTube Premium benefits with your kid's supervised business relationship, you'll demand to set upwards 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.

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

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

Downloaded videos are updated automatically every 24 hrs. The Relieve 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 data.

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

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