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- Google announced on Wednesday new parental controls for YouTube to allow parents to offer an age-appropriate YouTube experience to children who outgrow the content in YouTube Kids.
- The new YouTube supervised experiences will come with three tiers of access that parents will choose from to adapt to their kids' age and needs.
- The YouTube experience will feel identical to the full YouTube app, but children will not be able to access content inappropriate for their age.
- Initially, this version of YouTube will also lack creation support and access to comments. In-app purchases will be disabled, and YouTube will not show ads (or ads in specific categories).
You don’t have to pay for YouTube TV to use YouTube for entertainment purposes. There are a seemingly unlimited number of videos on the site, but the full YouTube experience isn't especially safe for children who are just starting to explore parts of the internet that were previously restricted to them.
The current parental controls in YouTube -- YouTube Kids -- doesn't help parents manage access for their teenagers, however. That’s why Google announced a new type of YouTube experience on Wednesday meant to allow parents to slowly open access to the full YouTube environment to children to are outgrowing YouTube Kids.
The new supervised experiences mode will be available to children over 13, featuring various access tiers that would allow parents to control what their children can watch on the internet-connected devices they have access to.
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