We give parents choices to guide their kid’s YouTube journey, including picking a content setting when they set up their pre-teen’s supervised experience. Content settings determine what and how much content your pre-teen will see. Even after you choose a content setting, you can change it at any time.
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Depending on the content setting you pick, your child can also view comments on videos.
How content settings work
YouTube has developed a set of policies on content appropriateness that generally align with TV and movie content ratings. These policies help guide which videos your pre-teen can see based on their content setting.
Our automated systems identify videos suitable to include in each content setting based on our content policies. We know that our systems aren’t perfect and will make mistakes. We have a team of engineers and human reviewers partnering together to continuously improve our systems. If you find something that you believe is inappropriate for YouTube, you can report it.
Depending on the content setting you pick, your pre-teen can also view comments on videos.
Content setting options
| Explore | Generally aligns with content ratings for viewers 9+ |
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| Explore more | Generally aligns with content ratings for viewers 13+ |
| Most of YouTube | Almost all videos on YouTube except for content marked as 18+ and other videos that may not be appropriate for viewers using supervised experiences |
Content policies
Our content policies differ between content settings and determine what kinds of videos your child can watch. We regularly reevaluate these policies, so the definitions below may not be exhaustive.