Customize your child'southward experience on YouTube Kids

In addition to using parental controls and settings, you can sign in to the YouTube Kids app to cake channels or turn on YouTube Premium benefits. You can also sign in to YouTube using your linked parent business relationship to:

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

Yous tin can also study videos that yous observe inappropriate in the YouTube Kids app. The YouTube policy team will review the videos. If you're signed in when yous study a video, it'south as well blocked from the YouTube Kids app when you lot'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'due south YouTube Kids business relationship. Sharing videos from the YouTube app allows your child to sentinel videos that may not exist available with the YouTube Kids content setting. Shared content will remain on your kid'due south dwelling screen until it's unshared or blocked.

Tip: You can use the sharing characteristic to customize the content that shows up on your kid's dwelling house screen.

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

Note: To utilise the sharing characteristic, you must be signed in with the Google Account linked to your child's supervised Google Business relationship or YouTube Kids profile. This characteristic is merely available on the YouTube app on mobile devices.

Share content from YouTube using your linked parent business relationship

To share content from the YouTube app:

  1. Tap More adjacent to any video or channel folio you'd like to share, OR under the video player, tap SHARE .
  2. In the dialog, tap With kids.This optionwill just surface if your account is linked to a YouTube Kids contour or a supervised Google Account.
  3. Tap the SHARE button adjacent to the Kids profile yous want to share the video to.
  4. When the button changes to "UNSHARE," you can tap Washed to get out the dialog.

Your child tin can view shared content under the Shared tab on the YouTube Kids Habitation screen.

Even though you may want to, in that location are sure videos or channels you can't share with your kid'southward business relationship:

  • Age restricted videos
  • Videos with paid product placement
  • Live videos (available to share once 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 kid

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 no longer want your kid to view.

OR

  1. Sign in to the YouTube app.
  2. Go to the specific channel or video you'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 volition just surface if your account is linked to a YouTube Kids contour or a supervised Google Account.
  5. Tap the UNSHARE push button next to the child yous want to unshare the video with.
  6. When the push changes to "SHARE" you can tap Done to go out the dialog.

Block channels from YouTube

When you block a channel for your kid'due south YouTube Kids profile using your linked parent account, you won't detect it in YouTube Kids.

If you lot set up a supervised experience for your child'southward Google Account, you tin cake channels for them on YouTube. You'll need to use your linked parent account to block channels.

Blocking YouTube channels on supervised accounts

Notes:

  • If your child uses the same Google Business relationship for YouTube and YouTube Kids, any channels blocked on YouTube will as well exist blocked on YouTube Kids.
  • Blocking a aqueduct just blocks content uploaded to that specific channel. Information technology doesn't block videos that are reuploaded on other channels, or similar channels with related content.

Cake specific channels from YouTube using your linked parent business relationship

To cake a specific channel from YouTube on your computer:

  1. Go to the channel page for the YouTube channel y'all want to cake.
  2. Become to the About tab on the channel page.
  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 pop-up may surface alerting you lot that similar videos may still be available on other channels. Click Continue.
  6. Select BLOCK next to the child y'all'd like to cake this channel for.
  7. Cake will alter to UNBLOCK, giving you the selection to disengage the activity.
  8. Click Washed.

To block a specific channel from the YouTube app:

  1. Become to the channel page for the YouTube channel you want to block.
  2. Tap More .
  3. Tap Block channel for kids. This selection will merely surface if you're using your linked parent account.
  4. A pop-upwardly may surface alerting you that similar videos may still exist available on other channels. Tap Proceed.
  5. Tap BLOCK next to the child you'd like to block this channel for.
  6. Cake will modify to UNBLOCK, giving you the pick to undo the activity.
  7. Tap Done .

Yous tin also block content directly in YouTube Kids on your child's device.

Unblock content from YouTube

If you modify your heed nigh a channel you've blocked, you tin can clear it in YouTube using your linked parent business relationship.

Unblock individual channels from YouTube using your linked parent business relationship

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

​On a calculator:

  1. Go to the channel page for the YouTube channel you want to unblock.
  2. Go to the About tab on the channel page.
  3. Click Report user .
  4. Select Cake channel for kids.This option volition only surface if you're using your linked parent account.
  5. A pop-upwardly may surface alerting you that similar videos may still be bachelor on other channels. Click Proceed.
  6. Select UNBLOCK next to the kid yous'd similar to unblock this aqueduct for.
  7. UNBLOCK will change to BLOCK, giving you the option to undo the action.
  8. Click DONE.

In the YouTube app:

  1. Go to the aqueduct page for the YouTube channel you want to unblock.
  2. Tap More .
  3. Tap Block aqueduct for kids. This option will merely surface if you're using your linked parent account.
  4. A pop-upwards may surface alerting yous that like videos may yet be available on other channels. Tap Keep.
  5. Tap UNBLOCK adjacent to the kid yous'd like to unblock this channel for.
  6. UNBLOCK will change to Block, giving y'all the option to undo the activity.
  7. Tap Done.

You lot can also unblock content directly in YouTube Kids on your kid'due south device.

Unblock all content from YouTube using your linked parent account

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

  1. Sign in to YouTube with your linked parent business relationship.
  2. Become to your contour 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 popular-upward may surface alerting y'all that all content you've blocked in YouTube and YouTube Kids will exist unblocked. Select UNBLOCK.

You can besides unblock content directly in YouTube Kids on your child's device.

Sign in to YouTube Kids to customize content

Block content from YouTube Kids

When you block a video or channel in YouTube Kids, you won't find it when you're signed in. If you endeavor to block a video while signed out, a dialog will open request you to sign in.

Y'all tin also report videos that you detect inappropriate in YouTube Kids. The YouTube policy squad will review the videos.

YouTube Kids: How to block videos

Block content from YouTube Kids

Yous tin can block a video from the home screen:

  1. Tap More adjacent to the video.

  2. Tap Cake this video .

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

You can block a video or channel from the lookout man page:

  1. Tap More at the top of the video.
  2. Tap Block .
  3. In the dialog that opens, selectBlock this video merely,or selectBlock entire channel to block the channel associated with the video.
  4. Tap Cake.
  5. Enter the numbers that bear witness on the screen, or enter your custom passcode.

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

Unblock content from YouTube Kids

If you change your listen most a video or channel you lot've blocked, you can clear it in Settings. If yous sign out of YouTube Kids, any content you've blocked while signed in will be available when yous sign out.

Unblock content with the YouTube Kids app

Note: If yous're using YouTube Kids with Family 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 turn on YouTube Premium benefits in the app. First you'll need a YouTube Premium membership on your ain Google Business relationship. And so yous tin can associate your YouTube Premium membership with the YouTube Kids app.

Plough on YouTube Premium benefits in YouTube Kids

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

  1. Open up the YouTube Kids app on your mobile device.
    • If you're signing in for the first time, you lot'll be asked to ostend your nascency twelvemonth.
  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 information technology 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 y'all haven't previously set up YouTube Kids and created kid profiles using this business relationship, you lot'll need to practice and then.
  3. YouTube Premium member benefits will at present be ready to employ in the YouTube Kids app on this device. Premium features, such as background play or offline videos, tin be turned on or off for your child. You lot can too select the corporeality of video content your kid can store on the device.

If watch and search history are turned on for your child, it's express to the YouTube Kids app on that device. Your child's sentry and search history will not be linked to your Google Business relationship.

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