Understand YouTube & YouTube Kids options for your child

What you need

Option ane: 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'south rubber and like shooting fish in a barrel to use for children.

You lot'll need to set up YouTube Kids for your child earlier they tin can use information technology.

Through Family Link, you can:

  • Cull a content level setting
  • Cull to permit your child apply the search office in YouTube Kids
  • Unblock videos

Change YouTube Kids settings

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

With the Family Link app

With the YouTube app

Option 2: YouTube supervised experience

Important: If your child is over xiii years old (or the applicable age in your country or region) and chooses to manage their own account, you won't exist able to supervise their feel on YouTube with these controls. If you lot add supervision to their account, you tin utilise Restricted Mode to filter out potentially mature content.

How YouTube supervised experiences piece of work

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

Through Family unit Link, yous can:

  • Choose between iii YouTube content level settings: Explore, Explore more, or Most of YouTube.
  • Pause Watch or Search history.
  • Unblock videos: Articulate the selection of videos and channels you blocked on YouTube Kids.
    • You can but block or unblock videos if you've fix upward YouTube Kids. When yous block or unblock videos on YouTube Kids, the same videos are blocked on your child's YouTube supervised account.

Acquire more about all settings for supervised experiences on YouTube.

Who is eligible for a supervised experience on YouTube?

Change content level settings on YouTube

With the Family Link app

With the YouTube app

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

Update general settings for YouTube and YouTube Kids

These settings apply 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 height right, select your profile picture or initial.
  3. Select Parent settings.
  4. Select your child.
  5. Under "Full general Settings," you tin can:
    • Turn Pause sentry history or Suspension search history on or off
    • Clear Search and Watch history
    • Unblock videos
      • You tin can only block or unblock videos if you lot have set YouTube Kids. When yous block or unblock videos on YouTube Kids, the same videos are blocked on your child's YouTube supervised business relationship.

Add together supervision to an existing Google Account

If yous add supervision to an existing account for a child under 13 (or the applicable age in your country or region), Google deletes subscriptions and this content on the account:

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

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

Turn Restricted Mode on or off

In one case your child turns 13 (or the applicable age in your state or region), they'll have access to YouTube without supervision. To assistance your child avoid most mature content, you can plough on Restricted manner.

To turn Restricted Mode on or off from Family unit Link:

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

Learn more than nearly Restricted Mode.

Related resources

  • FAQ for parents about supervised accounts
  • What is a supervised experience on YouTube?
  • Manage screen fourth dimension limits

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