You can view parental controls and other settings at any time by following these steps:
- Tap the Lock icon
in the bottom corner of any page in the app.
- Complete the multiplication problem or read and enter the numbers that appear. Or, enter your custom passcode.
- Select Settings
.
Your kid can also control some settings. Learn more.
YouTube Kids on the web also has parental settings. Learn more.
Block content
Content settings
- Tap the Lock icon
in the bottom corner of any page in the app.
- Complete the multiplication problem or read and enter the numbers that appear. Or, enter your custom passcode.
- Select Settings
.
- Select your child’s profile and enter your parent account password.
- Select Preschool, Younger, Older, or Approve content yourself.
Preschool Content Setting
The Preschool content setting (ages 4 & under) allows kids to watch videos that promote creativity, playfulness, learning, and exploration. Our systems work hard to exclude content not suitable for kids in preschool, but not all videos have been manually reviewed. If you find something inappropriate that we missed, you can block it or report it for fast review. Search in this setting is limited to the YouTube Kids videos included in the Preschool content setting.
Younger Content Setting
Older Content Setting
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.
This setting is available in all countries/regions where YouTube Kids is available.
YouTube Kids: How to approve what your kids can watch
In this setting, your child won’t be able to search for any videos.
- Tap the Lock icon
in the bottom corner of any page in the app.
- Complete the multiplication problem or read and enter the numbers that appear. Or, enter your custom passcode.
- Select Settings
.
- Select your child’s profile and enter your parent account password to modify settings.
- Select Approved content only to turn on.
- Review the info in the “Getting Started” pop-up.
- Tap Select.
- Tap the
icon 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’s experience to a more limited set of videos by turning the Search feature off.
With the Search feature turned off, your child can’t search for videos. Your child will also be limited to videos and channels that have been verified by YouTube Kids.
With the Search feature turned on, your child can search for new videos that interest them from the millions available in the YouTube Kids app.
Note: Keep in mind that there's always a chance your child may find something you don't want them to watch. You can report this content for our quick review.
To turn off the Search feature, switch Allow searching to Off in Settings .
If you turn the Search off, the watch and search history in your app will be cleared. Recommended videos and Watch it again will also be reset. Learn more about Search in YouTube Kids.
To clear watch and search history, and reset videos on Recommended and Watch it again:
- Tap Clear history.
- Select OK to save changes.
When you turn on Pause history, the YouTube Kids app will stop using videos you watch or terms you search as signals for Recommended videos and Watch it again. To turn on Pause history, switch Pause history to On in Parental settings.
- Select the kid's profile.
- Turn on Pause history.
YouTube Premium Membership
Check the details of the YouTube Premium membership linked to the YouTube Kids app on this device. You can also remove YouTube Premium from the kids app from this page by tapping the Remove from app button. This will also remove all downloaded YouTube videos on your device.
Note: Removing your YouTube Premium account from the kids app will not remove the account from the device (you may be signed into other Google apps on this device).
Background & offline
Tap Background play to set up the YouTube Kids app to play videos while using other apps or when your screen is off.
Turn on downloads to save a list of up to 24 videos per profile. You can watch downloaded videos when you aren’t connected to the internet. Downloaded videos are selected by the app from recommended videos (based on your use history) or, if we don’t have enough info, by what’s popular on YouTube Kids. Downloaded videos are updated automatically every 24 hrs. The Save over WI-FI only setting lets you conserve mobile data by preventing the app from downloading new videos offline while you’re connected to mobile data.
Change the storage limit and set the quality used for downloads. In general, lower quality videos take up less space on your device but may not play back as clearly.