YouTube Parental Control For Teens Is Rolling Out

YouTube parental control features for teens have been introduced as the platform expands its set of parental control features. This feature gives parents access to their teen’s YouTube activity once the teen’s account has been linked to the parent’s account.

This newly released feature aims to keep parents informed about what their teens are watching on YouTube. It builds on YouTube’s pre-teen parental control feature. The new YouTube Parental Control for teens will be rolling out to families worldwide this week. Teens will soon be able to link their YouTube accounts to their parents’ accounts through the Family Centre hub.

The Family Center lets parents access insights of their children’s YouTube activity including the comments posted, channel subscriptions and uploads. This extends even to private video uploads and unlisted videos. Furthermore, they will also be notified when privacy settings have been changed. Parents using this feature will also be sent an email notifying them of when their teen uploads a video or starts a livestream. It gives parents the perfect opportunity to give their teens advice on responsible creation.

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YouTube has stated that the linking of accounts will not affect the algorithm of content being when to the teen. This is because the algorithm is personalised to the teen. Additionally, the parents will not be allowed to disclose the age of their child to YouTube with the linking of accounts as the platform already goes by the teen’s age when they signed up.

This parental supervision of such platforms ensures the child’s safety. It lets parents know what kind of content their child likes to watch and what interest they have. This could bring both parents and child closer together. Other social media apps such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and more have also implemented parental control over their child’s accounts.

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