Customize your child'south feel

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

  • Cake content, or
  • Share content from YouTube to your child'south YouTube Kids profile.

You can also report videos that yous observe inappropriate in the YouTube Kids app. The YouTube policy squad will review the videos. If you're signed in when you report a video, information technology'south besides blocked from the YouTube Kids app when you're signed in.

Sign in to the YouTube app to customize content

Share content

You lot tin share channels and videos from the YouTube app to your child's YouTube Kids account. Sharing videos from the YouTube app allows your kid to watch videos that may not exist available with the YouTube Kids content setting. Shared content will remain on your child'due south home screen until it's unshared or blocked.

Tip: You can employ the sharing feature to customize the content that shows up on your kid's home screen.

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

Annotation: To use the sharing characteristic, you lot must be signed in with the Google Account linked to your child's supervised Google Account or YouTube Kids profile. 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 next to whatever video or aqueduct page yous'd like to share, OR
    1. Under the video player, tap Share .
  2. In the dialog, tap "With Kids." "With Kids" will only surface if your business relationship is linked to a YouTube Kids profile or a supervised Google Account.
  3. Tap the "SHARE" push button side by side to the Kids profile you want to share the video to.
  4. When the push button changes to "UNSHARE" you tin can tap Done to get out the dialog.

Your child can view shared content under the "Shared" tab on the YouTube Kids Home screen.

Even though you lot may want to, in that location are certain videos or channels you can't share with your kid's account:

  • Age restricted videos
  • Videos with paid production placement
  • Live videos (available to share one time the live stream is over)
  • Purchased content
  • Videos and channels that y'all've previously blocked in YouTube Kids for that kid
  • Shorts

Unshare content you've previously shared with your kid

To remove content, y'all'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 kid.
  3. Block any content you no longer want your kid to view.

OR

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

Block channels from YouTube

When yous block a channel for your child'due south YouTube Kids contour using your linked parent account, you won't find it in YouTube Kids when your child is signed in.

If y'all set upwardly a supervised feel for your child's Google Account, yous tin can block channels for them on YouTube. You'll demand to use your linked parent account to block channels.

Blocking YouTube channels on supervised accounts

Notes:

  • If your child uses the aforementioned Google Account for YouTube and YouTube Kids, any channels blocked on YouTube will as well be blocked on YouTube Kids.
  • Blocking a channel but 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 business relationship

To block a specific channel from YouTube on your computer:

  1. Go to the aqueduct page for the YouTube channel you lot want to cake.
  2. Go to the "Virtually" tab on the channel page.
  3. Click Study user .
  4. Select Block channel for kids. This option will only surface if you're using your linked parent account.
  5. A popular-upward may surface alerting y'all that like videos may still be bachelor on other channels. Click GOT Information technology.
  6. Select Block next to the kid yous'd like to cake this channel for.
  7. BLOCK will change to UNBLOCK, giving y'all the option to undo the action.
  8. Click Washed.

To block a specific channel from the YouTube app:

  1. Go to the channel folio for the YouTube channel yous want to block.
  2. Tap More than .
  3. Tap Block channel for kids. This selection will but surface if you're using your linked parent account.
  4. A pop-up may surface alerting y'all that similar videos may still exist available on other channels. Tap GOT IT.
  5. Tap Cake next to the child you'd like to block this channel for.
  6. Cake will change to UNBLOCK, giving you the option to undo the activity.
  7. Tap Done.

You tin can also block content directly in YouTube Kids on your kid's device.

Unblock content from YouTube

If you alter your mind about a aqueduct you've blocked, you can clear it in YouTube using your linked parent account.

Unblock individual channels from YouTube using your linked parent account

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

​On a calculator:

  1.  Become 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 Block channel for kids.This option will simply surface if you're using your linked parent business relationship.
  5. A pop-up may surface alerting you that similar videos may notwithstanding exist available on other channels. Click GOT IT.
  6. Select UNBLOCK next to the kid you'd like to unblock this channel for.
  7. UNBLOCK volition change to Cake, giving you the option to undo the activeness.
  8. Click Done.

In the YouTube app:

  1. Go to the channel folio for the YouTube aqueduct you want to unblock.
  2. Tap More than .
  3. Tap Block aqueduct for kids. This choice will only surface if you're using your linked parent business relationship.
  4. A popular-upward may surface alerting you that similar videos may still exist available on other channels. Tap GOT IT.
  5. Tap UNBLOCK next to the child you'd like to unblock this channel for.
  6. UNBLOCK will modify to Cake, giving you the option to undo the action.
  7. Tap Done.

Y'all tin can too unblock content direct in YouTube Kids on your child's device.

Unblock all content from YouTube using your linked parent account

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

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

You can also 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 aqueduct in YouTube Kids, you won't notice it when you're signed in. If y'all try to cake a video while signed out, a dialog will open up asking you to sign in.

You can also report videos that you discover inappropriate in YouTube Kids. The YouTube policy team volition review the videos.

YouTube Kids: How to block videos

Block content from YouTube Kids

You tin can block a video from the home screen:

  1. Tap More next to the video.

  2. Tap Block this video .

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

You lot tin cake a video or channel from the watch folio:

  1. Tap More than at the top of the video.
  2. Tap BLOCK .
  3. In the dialog that opens, selectBlock this video only,or selectBlock entire 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.

You can also block channels from YouTube, using your linked parent account.

Unblock content from YouTube Kids

If you change your mind nigh a video or channel you've blocked, yous can articulate it in Settings. If you sign out of YouTube Kids, whatsoever content you've blocked while signed in will exist watchable when you lot sign out.

Unblock content with the YouTube Kids app

Notation: If you're using YouTube Kids with Family Link, you tin also unblock videos in the Family Link settings. Acquire more than.

YouTube Premium

You can sign in to the YouTube Kids app to turn on YouTube Premium benefits in the app. First 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.

Plough on YouTube Premium benefits in YouTube Kids

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

  1. Open the YouTube Kids app on your mobile device.
    • If you're signing in for the get-go fourth dimension, y'all'll exist asked to confirm your birth 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 Business relationship.
    • If you lot oasis't previously set upwards YouTube Kids and created kid profiles using this account, you'll need to exercise so.
  3. YouTube Premium member benefits will now be ready to use in the YouTube Kids app on this device. Premium features, such equally background play or offline videos, tin exist turned on or off for your child. You lot can also select the amount of video content your kid tin store on the device.

If scout and search history are turned on for your child, information technology'southward express to the YouTube Kids app on that device. Your child'south sentinel and search history will non be linked to your Google Account.

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