Customize your child'south experience on YouTube Kids

In add-on to using parental controls and settings, y'all can sign in to the YouTube Kids app to block channels or plow on YouTube Premium benefits. You lot can as well sign in to YouTube using your linked parent account to:

  • Block content, or
  • Share content from YouTube to your child's YouTube Kids profile.

You tin also study videos that you find inappropriate in the YouTube Kids app. The YouTube policy squad will review the videos. If you're signed in when you lot written report a video, it's as well blocked from the YouTube Kids app when you're signed in.

Sign in to the YouTube app to customize content

Share content

You can share channels and videos from the YouTube app to your child's YouTube Kids business relationship. Sharing videos from the YouTube app allows your child to sentry videos that may not be bachelor with the YouTube Kids content setting. Shared content will remain on your child's dwelling house screen until it's unshared or blocked.

Tip: You can utilise the sharing feature to customize the content that shows up on your child's domicile screen.

Share content from YouTube to your child's YouTube Kids feel

Notation: To use the sharing feature, you must be signed in with the Google Account linked to your kid's supervised Google Account or YouTube Kids contour. This feature is only available on the YouTube app on mobile devices.

Share content from YouTube using your linked parent account

To share content from the YouTube app:

  1. Tap More than side by side to any video or aqueduct folio you lot'd like to share, OR under the video player, tap SHARE .
  2. In the dialog, tap With kids.This optionwill only surface if your account is linked to a YouTube Kids profile or a supervised Google Business relationship.
  3. Tap the SHARE button next to the Kids profile you lot want to share the video to.
  4. When the push changes to "UNSHARE," you can tap Washed to exit the dialog.

Your child can view shared content under the Shared tab on the YouTube Kids Dwelling house screen.

Even though y'all may want to, there are certain videos or channels you can't share with your kid's account:

  • Age restricted videos
  • Videos with paid production placement
  • Alive videos (bachelor to share one time the live stream is over)
  • Purchased content
  • Videos and channels that you've previously blocked in YouTube Kids for that child
  • Shorts

Unshare content you've previously shared with your child

To remove content, you've previously shared with your child:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Kids.
  2. Click or tap on the Shared tab. This tab will show the content you've shared with your child.
  3. Block any content you lot no longer desire your kid to view.

OR

  1. Sign in to the YouTube app.
  2. Go to the specific aqueduct or video yous've shared with your child previously.
  3. Tap More than next to the video or channel, OR
    1. Under the video player, tap Share .
  4. In the dialog, tap With Kids.This option will only surface if your account is linked to a YouTube Kids profile or a supervised Google Account.
  5. Tap the UNSHARE button next to the child you desire to unshare the video with.
  6. When the button changes to "SHARE" you can tap Done to exit the dialog.

Block channels from YouTube

When you block a channel for your child's YouTube Kids profile using your linked parent account, you lot won't find it in YouTube Kids.

If y'all ready a supervised experience for your child'southward Google Account, you can block channels for them on YouTube. You'll need to utilise your linked parent business relationship to block channels.

Blocking YouTube channels on supervised accounts

Notes:

  • If your child uses the same Google Account for YouTube and YouTube Kids, any channels blocked on YouTube will also be blocked on YouTube Kids.
  • Blocking a channel just blocks content uploaded to that specific channel. It doesn't block videos that are reuploaded on other channels, or similar channels with related content.

Block specific channels from YouTube using your linked parent account

To block a specific channel from YouTube on your computer:

  1. Go to the channel folio for the YouTube channel yous desire to block.
  2. Go to the Nearly tab on the channel folio.
  3. Click Report user .
  4. Select Block channel for kids. This option will only surface if you're using your linked parent account.
  5. A popular-up may surface alerting you lot that similar videos may nonetheless be available on other channels. Click Go along.
  6. Select BLOCK next to the child you'd similar to cake this aqueduct for.
  7. BLOCK volition modify to UNBLOCK, giving you the option to undo the action.
  8. Click DONE.

To block a specific channel from the YouTube app:

  1. Become to the aqueduct page for the YouTube channel you want to block.
  2. Tap More than .
  3. Tap Block aqueduct for kids. This pick will merely surface if you're using your linked parent account.
  4. A popular-up may surface alerting you that similar videos may all the same be available on other channels. Tap CONTINUE.
  5. Tap BLOCK next to the child you'd similar to block this aqueduct for.
  6. Cake will change to UNBLOCK, giving you the selection to undo the action.
  7. Tap Done .

Y'all tin can also block content directly in YouTube Kids on your child'south device.

Unblock content from YouTube

If you change your listen about a aqueduct you lot've blocked, you can clear information technology in YouTube using your linked parent account.

Unblock individual channels from YouTube using your linked parent business relationship

To unblock individual channels from YouTube, using your linked parent account:

​On a computer:

  1. Become to the channel folio for the YouTube channel y'all want to unblock.
  2. Get to the Most tab on the channel folio.
  3. Click Written report user .
  4. Select Block channel for kids.This pick will but surface if y'all're using your linked parent account.
  5. A pop-up may surface alerting you that similar videos may still be bachelor on other channels. Click CONTINUE.
  6. Select UNBLOCK side by side to the child y'all'd similar to unblock this channel for.
  7. UNBLOCK volition change to Block, giving you the option to undo the activity.
  8. Click Washed.

In the YouTube app:

  1. Go to the aqueduct page for the YouTube channel y'all want to unblock.
  2. Tap More .
  3. Tap Block channel for kids. This option will only surface if y'all're using your linked parent account.
  4. A pop-up may surface alerting you that like videos may even so exist available on other channels. Tap Go along.
  5. Tap UNBLOCK next to the child y'all'd like to unblock this aqueduct for.
  6. UNBLOCK will change to BLOCK, giving you the option to undo the action.
  7. Tap Washed.

You can also unblock content direct in YouTube Kids on your child's device.

Unblock all content from YouTube using your linked parent business relationship

To unblock all videos and channels from YouTube, using your linked parent business relationship:

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent account.
  2. Go to your profile moving picture .
  3. Select Settings .
  4. Select Parent Settings.
    1. If you're on a computer, select Manage settings for your kids, next to "Parent Settings."
  5. Select your child.
  6. Under General SETTINGS, click Unblock videos.
  7. A pop-up may surface alerting you that all content you've blocked in YouTube and YouTube Kids will be unblocked. Select UNBLOCK.

Y'all tin can also unblock content straight in YouTube Kids on your child'south device.

Sign in to YouTube Kids to customize content

Block content from YouTube Kids

When you block a video or aqueduct in YouTube Kids, you won't find information technology when y'all're signed in. If you try to block a video while signed out, a dialog will open asking y'all to sign in.

You can also report videos that y'all observe inappropriate in YouTube Kids. The YouTube policy squad will review the videos.

YouTube Kids: How to block videos

Cake content from YouTube Kids

Yous can cake a video from the home screen:

  1. Tap More than next to the video.

  2. Tap Cake this video .

  3. Enter the numbers that show on the screen, or enter your custom passcode.

Y'all can block a video or aqueduct from the picket page:

  1. Tap More than at the top of the video.
  2. Tap BLOCK .
  3. In the dialog that opens, selectBlock this video simply,or selectBlock unabridged aqueduct to cake the channel associated with the video.
  4. Tap Block.
  5. Enter the numbers that show on the screen, or enter your custom passcode.

Y'all can also cake channels from YouTube, using your linked parent account.

Unblock content from YouTube Kids

If you change your mind almost a video or channel you lot've blocked, you tin clear it in Settings. If y'all sign out of YouTube Kids, any content you've blocked while signed in volition be available when you sign out.

Unblock content with the YouTube Kids app

Notation: If you're using YouTube Kids with Family unit Link, you can also unblock videos in the Family unit Link settings. Learn more.

YouTube Premium

You can sign in to the YouTube Kids app to plough on YouTube Premium benefits in the app. Outset y'all'll need a YouTube Premium membership on your own Google Account. And so you can associate your YouTube Premium membership with the YouTube Kids app.

Turn on YouTube Premium benefits in YouTube Kids

To acquaintance your YouTube Premium membership with the YouTube Kids app:

  1. Open the YouTube Kids app on your mobile device.
    • If you lot're signing in for the first time, you'll be asked to confirm your birth year.
  2. Sign in with your Google Account that has YouTube Premium.
    • If the account with your YouTube Premium membership is already signed in to a Google app on this device, select it from the account picker. If not, tap Add together an account to this device and follow the on-screen instructions to sign in with your Google Account.
    • If you haven't previously set YouTube Kids and created child profiles using this account, you lot'll demand to do so.
  3. YouTube Premium fellow member benefits will at present be ready to use in the YouTube Kids app on this device. Premium features, such equally background play or offline videos, can exist turned on or off for your kid. You tin can also select the amount of video content your child can store on the device.

If watch and search history are turned on for your child, it's limited to the YouTube Kids app on that device. Your child'due south watch and search history will not be linked to your Google Account.

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