Parental controls have been a major focus in January 2026, and YouTube is the latest platform to step in with new safety-focused updates. With YouTube Shorts evolving into a core product, kids are ...

YouTube has announced a major update aimed at making its platform safer and more manageable for children and teenagers. With growing concerns around excessive screen time and short-form video ...

YouTube said it is rolling out a major update to its parental control tools that will allow parents to restrict or completely disable access to the platform’s Shorts feed for teenage users, as ...

YouTube has introduced a suite of new features aimed at allowing parents to better manage their teens’ viewing habits, with an emphasis on mindful screen time, higher-quality content, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About one in five teens say they are on platforms like YouTube and TikTok almost “constantly,” a Pew Research Center Survey found ...

YouTube is expanding parental controls to give parents more say over how their teen children use the platform. The Google-owned service now allows parents to set limits on the amount of time teens ...

YouTube has rolled out enhanced parental controls that allow parents to limit or completely block Shorts for supervised accounts. A daily timer ranging from zero minutes to two hours can now be set, ...

YouTube is rolling out new parental controls focused on teen viewers. As part of the update, parents can soon limit or completely block YouTube Shorts for teens. The update also focuses on improving ...

YouTube will now let parents limit the amount of time their teens can spend scrolling through its short-form video feature, Shorts, or block them all together. The option is part of a group of new ...

As of January 2026, YouTube has rolled out new parental control features for supervised teen accounts, with a clear focus on reducing or limiting endless scrolling, improving screen-time habits, and ...