If you have never been in this section, you will be asked to create a password. So I made sure she couldn’t.ġ) If you have access to your child’s iPad, go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Content Restrictions. If it was, I would have deleted it.īut even without the YouTube app installed, my daughter would still be able to access the video streaming site via the web browser. To start, I made sure the YouTube app wasn’t installed on the device. Block YouTube on your kid’s iPhone or iPadįirst order of business was blocking YouTube from my daughter’s iPad. I don’t want my kids to ever access YouTube, because even content that is deemed safe for them can be just plain dumb (see Sofie Dossi’s reference above). Second, I just want to restrict YouTube access altogether. This can lead to content seeping through the net of what you want to be restricted. YouTube does offer a very basic setting for parental controls, but I see two issues with this.įirst, it’s not a foolproof system as it mostly relies on a video’s metadata to filter out the content. With a bit of playing around with the Settings app on my iPhone and Apple TV, I was able to come to a good compromise that will block YouTube from the kids’ devices while still allowing me to watch YouTube on the Apple TV when I so desire.
However, I myself want to be able to watch YouTube on that Apple TV when I feel like it. I also want my kids to be unable to watch YouTube on the family Apple TV. To me, the challenge in our household is to block YouTube from specific devices without necessarily making YouTube completely unavailable.įor example, I do want to block YouTube from my daughter’s iPad. Restricting YouTube without removing YouTube This post aims to give concerned parents like myself ways to block, lock, and restrict YouTube access on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, whether it is through the YouTube app itself, or via a web browser.
And don’t get me started about the vlogs of Sofie Dossi and her prankster friends. So what may start as a couple of educational videos about the solar system can easily end up being an hour watching Preston and Briana play Minecraft. It’s not so much about the time they spend on YouTube, it’s more about the quality of what they watch on YouTube, which I can’t always control or oversee. Over the last year or so, my kids have spent an unhealthy amount of time on YouTube on their iPad or the family Apple TV.
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