How To Set Up YouTube Parental Controls

YouTube Parental control is a must if you are letting your kids use the YouTube app or YouTube website.

There are three simple steps you can mix and match to make YouTube more kids friendly and hide mature content.

Step 1: Use YouTube kids instead of the YouTube app. If you can keep your kids on the YouTube Kids app which is designed for kids 12 and under, it is less likely to contain mature content of any kind.

Make sure to lock this option, so it can't be easily changed back.

Step 3: Turn on SafeSearch for your Google account. Google owns YouTube, so this option transfers over to YouTube and Google searches.

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[suvinkumari]

Doing it for myself to avoid distractions in study !! Thnkuu !

[TheFakeyCakeMaker]

To be honest YouTube could do much more but it doesn't. It's not always the adult content I want restricted but the damn kids content too. The utter bilge that my son ends up watching I should be able to block channels and certain search terms and I should also be able to restrict non-English terms. YouTube is crap for kids, they know it and they don't care.

[obviouslynotrabia]

Thanks alot! My sister who is just 11 watches weird 18+ videos that I don't even watch ;-; and she does this without letting me, my other sister and mom know about it, I'm thankful for this video 💀😂

[taskata]

Me doing this to avoid temptation and sinning against God😥

[prongedlion]

Is there a way to more directly control the kind of content that can be searched and viewed by the kid?

[planetside]

At 2:26, you mention the "Lock Restricted Mode on this browser." Where can I do this on the iPhone Youtube app?

[amandawilliams]

What about on tv’s? If we set the restrictions on our phones will that carry over to the tv YouTube app. also?

[planetside]

So once you've enabled restricted mode, how do I secure it so my kids can't simply navigate to Settings | General | Restrict Mode and disable it?

[starklife]

But the kids can just go back and turn off restricted mode, watch the video they want, then turn restricted mode back on afterwards. There is no lock on the app.

[lanajacknichols]

Are these settings set up for individual devices? I want to do this on my sons devices not on every device is that possible?

[Cozmosmom]

My son goes in and just switches it back to not restricted. Is there a way to have a passcode to prevent the settings from being switched back?

[wongwwy]

Thanks for the tutorial. But this is only to set it on for your own account (willingly). It does not help at all if that account is my teen's and they have absolutely full right to turn it off by themselves. They can easily just search this video and find out how to turn all three of them off. As a parent, you have no way to stop them from disabling features (especially after 13 in US, which is utterly crazy to give a teen just powerful tools). This is one of the flaw I find out in google that no one bother to address. I know you might argue that if they are 13, they are young adults, they should manage some of their freedom, but they are still old kids and in a lot of way immature to handle all these settings that they can just simply turn off and not care about (including turning off location tracking so parent will not know where they are). It's very disappointing how little the industry do to protect teens nowadays (Google, Microsoft, etc. they are all the same. Looks good on paper, totally impractical when you are a parent trying to setup something that can block their access). Another practical example is my kids watch a lot of those minecraft videos that is getting block by restricted-mode for no reason (there no profanity, no offensive things, etc.). And when so many video got blocked by restricted-mode, we parent have no choice but to disable restricted mode for them since it is so broken and it does not work at all (blocking too many videos)

[bestcellphonespyapps]

All three of these are great ways to protect children on YouTube. I am very impressed in the steps YouTube is taking to filter video content. Using all of these safety features will help make sure the video content displayed on the site will be appropriate for your children.

[Jess-Gonzales]

50 seconds in the video you explain you have a different video diving deeper into youtube kids. it would be useful to have the link of the videos you mention in your description. Either way thanks for the info.

[smitatoteja]

I will try these methods. My toddler watches kids poems and cartoons and she get scared of Halloween or monster songs. I want to restrict these kind of videos. How can I do so kindly let me know. Thanks

[Chris-pjos]

So these features are device specific?

[BenjieMendoza-dd]

How do i let my son use commenting and uploading?

[Owen-hshx]

I heard the n word a lot on my 5 yr old brothers phone and he was watching Jake Paul, who is not popular anymore and inappropriate. Thank you for this

[daveforgot]

Great video, but it does not help me. There are certain kids shows my toddlers react negatively too. I want to block particular shows. How do I do that?