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 the Lock
in the corner of your screen.
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
- Select Einstellungen
.
Use your linked parent account's YouTube settings
To view parental controls and settings for YouTube Kids profiles from your YouTube settings:
- Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
- Go to your profile picture
.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- Select Parent Settings.
- If you’re on a computer, 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 from Family Link:
- On your device, open the Family Link app
.
- Select your child.
- Tippen Sie auf Controls
Content restrictions
YouTube.
- Change your YouTube Kids settings, under "YouTube Kids Settings."
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:
Block or share content
- Block or share content with your child
- Change your child’s content level setting for YouTube Kids
- Note: You can also change your child’s YouTube Kids content setting to Approve content yourself using the YouTube Kids app.
- Turn off the Search feature for YouTube Kids
- Review your child’s watch history
- Clear your child’s history
- Disable autoplay
- Pause your child’s watch history
- Pause your child’s search history
- Turn on YouTube Premium benefits for your child
Block content:
- You can use your child’s device to block content directly in YouTube Kids from the home screen or watch page.
- You can sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account to block specific channels you don’t want your child to watch in YouTube Kids.
Share content: Sign in to your Google Account to share videos and channels from YouTube with your linked child accounts.
Share content from YouTube to your child’s YouTube Kids experience
Change the content level setting for your child's YouTube Kids profile from YouTube Kids:
- Select the Lock
in the corner of your screen.
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- Select your child’s profile and enter your parent account password.
- Select Preschool, Younger, Older, or Approve content yourself.
Change your child’s content level setting from YouTube:
- Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
- Go to your profile picture
.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- Select Parent Settings.
- Select your child’s profile or account.
- Under "YouTube Kids Settings," select EDIT next to “Content Settings.”
- 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.
- Tippen Sie auf Controls
Content restrictions
YouTube.
- 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.
- Tap the Lock icon
in the bottom corner of any page in the app.
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- 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.
- Tippen Sie auf
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.
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.
To turn off the Search feature, switch Suche to off in Einstellungen .
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.
You can review your child’s watch history for YouTube Kids in Watch it again.
On your child’s mobile device or tablet:
- Tippen Sie auf Watch it again
at the top of the home screen.
On your child’s computer:
- In the top corner of the screen, select your child’s profile picture to view the Watch it again videos.
Note: Only videos viewed in YouTube Kids on that device will show up in Watch it again.
You can clear the watch and search history for your child’s account across all of their linked devices from YouTube:
- Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
- Go to your profile picture
.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- Select Parent Settings.
- Select your child’s profile or account.
- Select Clear history.
- To save your changes, select CLEAR.
You can also clear your kid’s history, and reset videos on Recommended and Watch it again from YouTube Kids:
- Select the Lock
in the corner of your screen.
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- Select your child’s profile and enter your parent account password.
- Select Clear history.
- To save your changes, select OK.
You can turn off Autoplay for your child by selecting Disable autoplay. Your child can’t turn on Autoplay when this setting is on.
To disable autoplay for your child from YouTube:
- Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
- Go to your profile picture
.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- Select Parent Settings.
- Select your child’s profile or account.
- Switch Disable autoplay to on.
To pause your child’s watch history from YouTube Kids:
- Select the Lock
in the corner of your screen.
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- Select your child's profile and enter your parent account password.
- Switch Pause watch history to on.
- To save your changes, select OK.
To pause your child’s watch history from YouTube:
- Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
- Go to your profile picture
.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- Select Parent Settings.
- Select your child’s profile or account.
- Switch Pause watch history to on.
To Pause your child’s search history from YouTube Kids:
- Select the Lock
in the corner of your screen.
- Complete the multiplication problem or enter your custom passcode.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- Select your child's profile and enter your parent account password.
- Switch Pause search history to on.
- To save your changes, select OK.
To pause your child’s search history from YouTube:
- Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
- Go to your profile picture
.
- Select Einstellungen
.
- Select Parent Settings.
- Select your child’s profile or account.
- Switch Pause search history to on.
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.