YouTube Kids (Pianetacellulare.it)
With YouTube Kids, the little ones have a version of the platform available with content more suitable for children under 12. However, the videos on this app are not always suitable for children: in this article we will see how to better monitor and protect your children.
Nowadays listening to music online is really very simple. Just rely on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music to have all the music possible and go in search of your favorite artists or those songs that you just can’t do without. However, despite the advance of these apps, a tool like YouTube is still widely used around the world. With YouTube, in fact, it is possible not only to listen to music but also to watch the video of the song.
Furthermore, on this platform you can also follow live broadcasts, watch films or documentaries, watch clips of comedies or TV series and much more. For all these reasons, even today, YouTube can count on over 2 billion active users every month. Furthermore, it is also possible to subscribe to YouTube Premium so as not to have to deal with advertising interruptions, neither before the video nor during its playback.
Is YouTube Kids really safe? The whole truth
In addition to the Premium subscription, the platform also offers another interesting service aimed at children. We are talking about YouTube Kidsan app available on both the Google Play Store and the App Store to allow children to browse YouTube independently and within a more controlled environment.
In theory, YouTube Kids should only contain content suitable for children, with filtering of videos deemed inappropriate for users under 12 years of age. In addition, there are features that promote parental control on videos. But is it really like that? Is YouTube Kids really a ‘safe haven’ for little ones?
Not exactly. In a video published by the well-known Instagram channel ‘Tips for you’ (followed by over 40,000 fans) it is in fact shown how YouTube Kids actually it’s just not that safe for little ones. In fact, even on this app, content may appear that is anything but appropriate for users of that age.
Just to give an example, videos that explain how to prepare recipes also appear on YouTube Kids. Not exactly ideal for children, who might decide to take advantage of a moment of parental distraction to get into the kitchen and take not so trivial risks. In addition, there are also other videos that are best not watched by children.
How to have full control over the contents
This is why the advice is to click on the padlock at the bottom right, answer the math question and thus access the Settings menu. Click on the gear and access the profiles of the little ones (if they don’t exist, just create them). You access your profile settings and change the option that allows YouTube to propose content by default.
By clicking instead on ‘Approve contents yourself’ you will arrive at a screen where it will be possible choose the contents that the minor will be able to see. In this way the parent has full control: the children will no longer run risks.
