YouTube Kids offer a safer and simpler experience for kids. There are various controls and settings for you to guide their viewing journey.
Manage parental controls & settings
There are several ways that you can manage these controls. When you set up a Google Account for your child, you can set up parental controls for YouTube Kids experience through Family Link. When you set up a YouTube Kids profile for your child, you can set up parental controls through YouTube and YouTube Kids.
Use parental controls and settings on YouTube Kids
You can view parental controls and settings for YouTube Kids profiles from YouTube Kids:
- Select Settings
in the corner of your screen.
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
in the corner of your screen. Use YouTube’s Family Center
To view parental controls and settings for YouTube Kids profiles from YouTube:
- Sign in to the YouTube app with your linked parent account.
- Tap You in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Tap Settings
- Tap Family Center.
Use the Family Link app
To view parental controls and settings for YouTube Kids profiles from Family Link:
- On your device, open the Family Link app
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- Select your child.
- Tap Controls
Content restrictions
- Change your YouTube Kids settings, under "YouTube Kids Settings."
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Content restrictions Change specific parental controls & settings
You can tailor the YouTube Kids experience for your child by adjusting specific parental controls and settings. These controls and settings let you:
Parents can choose how content will be selected in YouTube Kids.
YouTube Kids: How to select content levels based on your kid’s age
Change your child’s content level setting from the YouTube Kids app:
- Tap Settings
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
- Tap your child’s profile and enter your parent account password.
- Tap EDIT SETTINGS.
- Select Preschool, Younger, Older, or Approve content yourself.
Change your child’s content level setting from YouTube:
- Sign in to the YouTube app with your linked parent account.
- Tap You in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Tap Settings
- Tap Family Center.
- Select your child’s profile or account.
- Under "YouTube Kids Settings," select EDIT next to “Content Settings.â€
- Note: If you want to change their content setting to Approve content yourself, you have to use the YouTube Kids app to make this change.
If you manage your child’s Google Account with Family Link, you can also change their content level setting from the Family Link app:
- On your device, open the Family Link app
- Select your child.
- Tap Controls
- Change your child’s content level setting for YouTube Kids, under “YouTube Kids Settings."
In this setting, your child 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 child’s content setting to Approve content yourself:
- Open the YouTube Kids app on your child's device.
- Select Settings
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
- Select your child’s profile and enter your parent account password.
- Select EDIT SETTINGS.
- Select Approve content yourself to turn on.
- Review the info in the “Getting Started†pop-up.
- Tap Select.
- Tap
on any collection, channel, or video to approve content you’d like to make available to your child.
- Select DONE in the red box at the bottom of the screen to exit.
on any collection, channel, or video to approve content you’d like to make available to your child.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 turned off, your child can’t search for videos. Your child will also be limited to videos and channels verified by YouTube Kids. Learn more about Search in YouTube Kids and how to turn it off.
If you turn off Search, the watch and search history for your kid’s YouTube Kids profile is cleared. Recommended videos and Watch it again will also be reset.
- Sign in to the YouTube app with your linked parent account.
- Tap You in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Tap Settings
- Tap Family Center.
- Select your child’s profile or account.
- Select Clear history.
- To save your changes, select CLEAR.
On the YouTube Kids app:
- Tap Settings
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
- Tap your child’s profile and enter your parent account password.
- Tap CLEAR HISTORY.
- To save your changes, tap OK.
- Sign in to the YouTube app with your linked parent account.
- Tap You in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Tap Settings
- Tap Family Center.
- Select your child’s profile or account.
- Switch Disable autoplay to on.
To pause your child’s watch history from the YouTube Kids app:
- Tap Settings
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
- Tap your child’s profile and enter your parent account password.
- Switch Pause watch history on.
To pause your child’s watch history from YouTube:
- Sign in to the YouTube app with your linked parent account.
- Tap You in the bottom right-hand corner.
- Tap Settings
- Tap Family Center.
- Select your child’s profile or account.
- Switch Pause watch history to on.
Pausing search history will also stop new search terms from being used as signals for Recommended videos. Learn more about how to pause search history.
​​​​YouTube Premium
There are several benefits to using your YouTube Premium membership with YouTube Kids. For example, you and your child can watch videos on YouTube Kids without any paid ads.
You’ll also get access to downloads and Background play. Learn more about these settings.