Set this new YouTube code to stop kids from using adult profiles on your TV

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• YouTube is getting new “parent codes” to limit access to profiles.
• With a code set, you won’t be able to load an adult profile or view signed out without the PIN.
• This system follows Google’s reorganization of YouTube Kids on smart TVs this past summer.

YouTube has so much content on it that you could probably cancel all your streaming services, watch nothing but YouTube, and never run out of interesting new things. But with that much stuff up there, there are definitely going to be videos that parents don’t want their children exposed to — and that’s exactly why YouTube Kids exists. Earlier this year, though, Google changed the way that kid-safe content is accessed on smart TVs, and in doing so, created a little bit of a loophole — one that it’s now finally correcting.

Rather that YouTube Kids appearing as a separate app on your TV, back in July Google pulled it back in under the main YouTube banner. That meant that your kids would access YouTube Kids by selecting their profile in the main YouTube app. While that’s intended to offer the same sort of kid-safe isolation as before, what if they’re clever enough to switch profiles?




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