For more than a decade, Google and YouTube have launched products, supported programs, and implemented built-in protections that support kids and teens on our platforms, while also giving parents the tools and resources to make empowered technology decisions for their families. This Safer Internet Day, we’re sharing the latest updates that support kids and teens in the digital world.
Empowering families with easier parental controls
Google and YouTube make it easy for families to choose and customize their experience through supervised accounts and parental controls. Google Family Link’s design now lets parents manage devices from a single page, plus view a device-specific usage summary, set time limits and more easily adjust controls from a consolidated screen-time management tab.
Similarly, for families using YouTube, an updated sign up experience will let parents create a new kid account and easily switch between accounts in the mobile app depending on who’s watching. Parents can also now set the amount of time spent scrolling Shorts – and soon, there will be the option to set the timer to zero. Parents of supervised kid and teen accounts can also set custom Bedtime and Take a Break reminders, building on the existing default-on wellbeing protections.
