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Parental controls

YouTube Kids offers several settings to allow parents to manage content their child can view. Parents can choose which level of content they want to make available for their child, from ‘nursery school’, ‘younger’, and ‘older’. By progressing through the different age levels, parents can adapt viewing settings as your child grows up. 

Parents can also turn off the search function, so that only those videos approved by the YouTube Kids team themselves will appear on children’s “Recommendations” list.

Other useful controls to be aware of include the ability to set a timer that limits screen time, disabling the app once a session of a set length has ended, and the ability to pause or to clear watch and search history. Clearing this will reset the videos that appear under the “Recommendations” and “Watch it again”.

Parents can also choose specific ‘collections’ for their child to watch. This will allow parents to reduce the content offered on YouTube Kids to only that on topics or from creators they deem appropriate.