Windows 10: A new choice for parents of tweens and teens on YouTube

Brink · Feb 24, 2021

Today, we are announcing a new choice for parents who have decided their tweens and teens are ready to explore YouTube with a supervised account.

This generation of tweens and teens has grown up online, and itâs where they go to learn, laugh, and connect. Every family has a different approach to how they use technology, access the internet and set digital ground rules. Over the years, weâve made investments to protect families and kids on YouTube, such as launching a dedicated https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-kids/, better protecting their https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/an-update-on-kids/, https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/an-update-on-our-efforts-to-protect/ and improving https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/using-technology-more-consistently-apply-age-restrictions/. Today, we are announcing a https://youtube.com/myfamily for parents who have decided their tweens and teens are ready to explore YouTube with a supervised account.

Supervised experiences on YouTube

From our earliest days, YouTube has been a platform for people over 13, and weâve always recommended that parents co-watch with their kids if they choose to watch YouTube. In 2015, we created https://kids.youtube.com/, a safer destination for kids to explore their interests while providing parental controls. But since then, weâve heard from parents and older children that tweens and teens have different needs, which werenât being fully met by our products. As children grow up, they have insatiable curiosity and need to gain independence and find new ways to learn, create, and belong.

Over the last year, we've worked with parents and experts across the globe in areas related to child safety, child development, and digital literacy to develop a solution for parents of tweens and teens. In the coming months, weâll launch a new experience in beta for parents to allow their children to access YouTube through a supervised Google Account. This https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10314940 will come with content settings and limited features. Weâll start with an early beta for families with kids under the age of consent to test and provide feedback, as we continue to expand and improve the experience.

Giving parents content options on YouTube

We know that every parent has a different parenting style and that every child is unique and reaches different developmental stages at different times. Thatâs why weâll give parents the ability to choose from 3 different content settings on YouTube.

Explore: For children ready to move on from YouTube Kids and explore content on YouTube, this setting will feature a broad range of videos generally suitable for viewers ages 9+, including vlogs, tutorials, gaming videos, music clips, news, educational content and more.

Explore More: With content generally suitable for viewers ages 13+, this setting will include an even larger set of videos, and also live streams in the same categories as âExplore.â

Most of YouTube: This setting will contain almost all videos on YouTube, except for https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802167, and it includes sensitive topics that may only be appropriate for older teens.

This option was designed for parents who think their children are ready to explore the vast universe of YouTube videos. We will use a mix of user input, machine learning and human review to determine which videos are included. We know that our systems will make mistakes and will continue to evolve over time.

We recommend parents continue to be involved in guiding and supporting their childâs experience on YouTube. To help parents get started, weâve developed a guide in partnership with National PTA, Parent Zone and Be Internet Awesome. Weâll also launch an ongoing campaign that features creators discussing themes like bullying and harassment, misinformation, digital well-being and more.

New features for families

We understand the importance of striking a balance between empowering tweens and teens to more safely gain independence, while offering parents ways to set controls. In addition to choosing the content setting, parents will be able to manage watch and search history from within their child's account settings. Parents can also use other controls offered by Googleâs Family Link, including screen timers. Weâll continue adding new parental controls over time, such as blocking content.

When a parent grants access to YouTube, their childâs experience will feel much like regular YouTube, but certain features will be disabled to protect younger audiences. For example, we won't serve personalized ads or ads in https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9713557?hl=en. At launch, we'll also disable in-app purchases, as well as creation and comments features. Since self-expression and community are integral parts of YouTube and children's development, over time we'll work with parents and experts to add some of these features through an age-appropriate and parent controlled approach.

Investing in YouTube Kids

Weâre building this new supervised experience for parents who think their older kids are ready to use YouTube, but we still recommend YouTube Kids for younger kids to watch independently and have a more contained viewing experience.

With availability in https://support.google.com/youtubekids/answer/6130573, now over 35 million viewers use YouTube Kids every week. Weâll continue https://support.google.com/youtubekids/thread/49349707?hl=en, https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/12980033?hl=en, and offering several new https://www.youtube.com/kids/parent-resources/, such as a highly-requested option for parents to select specific videos and channels from the main YouTube platform that theyâd like their child to explore on YouTube Kids.

We know that we have a long journey ahead of us as we design this experience for parents of tweens and teens. Over the long term, we hope this will provide a safer environment for older children to explore their interests, learn new skills, connect with communities that share their passions, while giving parents more ways to support their kids' online experience.

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Read more: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/supervised-experiences-for-families-on-youtube/

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antonio3535 · Feb 24, 2021

Can event viewer events be easily deleted (by teens)?

Thanks for your neat answer. I’m having problems with parental controls and it seems Ill have to wipe and reinstall.
I always talk kids into screen time and try to make them think, not easy, as teens are teens.

Parental Controls Questions · Feb 24, 2021

Parental Controls for You Tube videos

In the Parental Microsoft account, I have allowed a specific URL link to a You Tube video for my child, but when logged in using the child's account, then going to the allowed Youtube video, I was able to click on the suggested videos on the side eventhough
those videos have a different URL and those URL's are not on the allowed list. How would I fixed that?

I have already turned on parental controls on YouTube as well, but thought that the most fool proof way is to allow a specific video only. Now, those suggested videos are screwing things up - my children shouldn't be able to watch those as the URL's haven't
been allowed.

Thanks.

debbiwhitlock · Feb 24, 2021

parental controls for internet content

I would tell you to go pay $.99 cents get your kid a iPhone 5 and use teen safe. I had three windows phone for my teens. And Microsoft never developed good parental controls for their windows phones.

Teen safe will let you monitor everything your kid does on their phone and they cant hide it. Even if they delete their tracks it will show it.

Teen safe is going to push parents away from windows phones all together...

then Microsoft might join in too late as usually.

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