{"id":109098,"date":"2018-09-20T17:21:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=109098"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:00:42","slug":"youtube-kids-adds-greater-control-for-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-kids-adds-greater-control-for-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Kids adds greater control for parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just shy of six months ago, YouTube Kids, a branch of YouTube with services geared toward children, expanded its functions by allowing parents to edit controls so only videos screened by humans<\/strong> will be displayed instead of filtering through the algorithm.<\/p>\n

If content is human-reviewed, this means that a YouTube moderator<\/strong> has watched a few videos on a channel and decides whether it is generally appropriate for children. Once opted in, the filtered content includes not only the videos that a child is allowed to watch, but the related videos as well. Before this, YouTube relied solely on its algorithm<\/strong> to choose which content would be appropriate for the Kids app, but because technology isn’t perfect, sometimes a video would slip through and it was up to parents to flag it for review.<\/p>\n

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In a message on YouTube’s official blog<\/a>, it was announced that YouTube Kids added another helpful feature – the ability for parents to whitelist.<\/strong> In the settings, parents can turn on the ‘approved content only’ option, the child will only be able to watch content chosen by the parent.<\/strong> This content includes specific videos or a creator’s entire channel. Once whitelisting is turned on, kids cannot search for videos or channels on their own.<\/p>\n

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Adding to the whitelisting feature, there is also something for the older kids as well. The update brings a slightly more mature aesthetic to the app so kids 8 – 12 won’t feel as though the app is meant only for children much younger. Parents can also opt to choose the ‘older’ setting which makes videos available geared to the 8 – 12 age bracket, like gaming and music videos.<\/p>\n

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At the moment, whitelisting is only available on Android device<\/strong>s but iOS access will soon follow. Now, parents can feel more comfortable with children watching YouTube on their own.<\/p>\n\n

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