- Making Bedtime Reminders and Take a Break Reminders more prominent: To better help teens manage their screen time, both sets of reminders now appear as a full-screen takeover across Shorts and long-form videos, and they’re on by default for users under 18.
- Take a Break reminders can be set at certain frequencies as a reminder to pause from watching videos, with a default trigger setting for teen accounts for every 60 minutes.
- Bedtime reminders trigger at specific times to encourage viewers to stop watching videos and go to bed. Our latest updates:
- A new pre-bedtime reminder lets the teen viewer know their bedtime is approaching in 30 minutes.
- The default bedtime reminder for teens is now 10pm — 6am. If a teen viewer modifies their starting bedtime, the suggested end time will be 8 hours later.
- Dedicated YouTube Supervised Experience for teens: More families are using the voluntary supervised experience we launched last year. It gives parents and teens the option to link accounts in our YouTube Family Center, where parents can see shared insights into their teens’ channel activity, including the number of uploads, comments, subscriptions, and more. Linked accounts can also receive email notifications about channel activity and access to resources created with external experts to support conversations between parents and teens about responsible content creation. This is an expansion of our existing supervised experience for pre-teens.
All of these build on a range of features in place to protect our younger users and provide controls for parents, from the launch of YouTube Kids a decade ago, to dedicated safety and wellbeing protections. Our Youth Principles, which prioritize safety, wellbeing, privacy, and mental health, underpin all of this critical work.
Many of us at YouTube are parents, and we understand the choices families face when it comes to ensuring the wellbeing of loved ones and setting digital ground rules. Our goal is to empower parents with tools to customize their children’s YouTube experience, fostering confident and safe exploration of interests. We’ll keep investing and expanding on this vital work.
