Parents can put a time limit on YouTube Shorts scrolling

Parents tin now manually group a clip limit connected their kids’ YouTube Shorts feed, ranging from 15 minutes to 2 hours (with an action for zero minutes coming soon). The update, announced connected Wednesday, takes the Shorts clip limit characteristic YouTube introduced successful October and adapts it for under-18 accounts. Kids and teens can’t alteration aliases disable the clip limit mounting connected their end.

Similarly, parents tin group civilization “Bedtime” and “Take a break” reminders for their kids’ accounts, which are besides disposable arsenic optional features for big users. The caller features are rolling retired aft YouTube began a push to identify and restrict minors’ accounts past twelvemonth utilizing AI property estimation based connected users’ YouTube activity and the property of their account.

YouTube is besides making it easier for parents to make judge their kids are successful the correct relationship category. An update to the YouTube sign-up page rolling retired successful the coming weeks will let parents to manually group their kid aliases teen’s property class erstwhile creating a caller relationship and set the contented their relationship is allowed to access.