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YouTube Kids Now Available on Apple TV

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The popular YouTube Kids app is now available on Apple TV, making it easier to access the platform's kid-friendly video content on bigger screens.

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YouTube Kids uses a combination of automated filters, human review, and parent feedback to offer a safer environment for kids to watch videos. Parental controls offer additional customization, from allowing only parent-approved collections to be viewed and age-level ratings, to screen time limitations and video/channel blocking.

Even with the filtering and curation in place, YouTube has faced criticism for allowing some inappropriate content onto the YouTube Kids platform, and the company has pledged to improve its policies and procedures to be more strict. Early on, the service was also criticized for targeting children with advertising, with YouTube making some changes to help provide better distinction between ads and video content.

As noted by Engadget, YouTube Kids is compatible with both 4K and HD models of Apple TV, and it works with Siri.

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YouTube's attempts to market to kids over the past few months has seriously hurt the platform. They've removed comments from anything "the algorithm" thinks is for kids (pretty much anything animated). Billions of comments made over many years on these videos, gone in an instant, and they don't care. You can't even add the videos to playlists for some reason. As an adult fan of animation this has been frustrating.

I'm so sick of so many annoying things being done "for the children." Parents should be responsible for their kids; we shouldn't have to lose features on a major website because kids might abuse them.
 
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zorinlynx said:
YouTube's attempts to market to kids over the past few months has seriously hurt the platform. They've removed comments from anything "the algorithm" thinks is for kids (pretty much anything animated). Billions of comments made over many years on these videos, gone in an instant, and they don't care. You can't even add the videos to playlists for some reason. As an adult fan of animation this has been frustrating.

I'm so sick of so many annoying things being done "for the children." Parents should be responsible for their kids; we shouldn't have to lose features on a major website because kids might abuse them.
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Oh no. Such a shame that people can't leave a variety of slurs and insults in the comments of a 40 year old's weekly video review ranting about everything wrong with the latest episode of a children's cartoon. A great loss for society, indeed.
 
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No thanks.

Most of the kid contents aren't captioned so I wouldn't trust it for my kids.

I would rather stick it to Netflix or Disney+ over YouTube.
 
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Eduardo1971 said:
This is horrible-I don’t allow my son access to this. Content is horrible and some of those videos contain questionable material that are not appropriate for children.
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Interesting you mention this. What do you find is questionable?

The only thing I found was a lot of Thai, Hindi, French, German and other languages that I gradually blocked over time to stop my son getting confused in his language development skills. We (parents), are both native English speaking, but we also live in Spain and are also both fluent in Spanish (half my family are Spanish speaking), so we naturally filter only those two languages.

However, when it comes to content, we've never seen anything too odd. I mean, have you watched the Teletubbies or "In the Night Garden" from the BBC? Those producers were high as a kite coming up with that stuff!

Ultimately, if there is something you don't like, just block the entire channel and you never see it again and the content is far safer than YouTube.

Also, somebody mentioned Disney+ and the like, but there is way more questionable content on there, (and frightening content), for a 3 year old child.
 
Would love for Google to update the Nest AppleTV app to support, you know, Google authentication...
 
Man, Apple really needs to clean up their Apple TV branding. My first understanding of this title was that YouTube kids was available inside of the Apple TV app, maybe as a Channel.

AppleTV as an app has overtaken the AppleTV's (the device) marketing and is more far reaching in terms of audience given that more people are exposed to Apple TV the app on TVs and TV boxes than those who own the Apple TV (the device).
 
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This. Even if you take out the ads with Premium, the content is terrible and lots of potentially damaging stuff for kids. Our school regularly reminds parents not to use it and to stick to content from providers like BBC, Netflix, etc.
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I found out our school is just handing kids iPads with YouTube Kids on it and letting them go to town searching for whatever they want. Kinda scary. On my daughter's home iPad I let her use it but have turned off search so she can only watch some of the videos that are curated on the main screen but I severely limit the time she can watch it in the screen time settings. I give her more time in the PBS Kids app, but mainly her screen time is set for educational games and art.
 
Curated?! But.. How else is my daughter supposed to be slowly converted into a flat earther MRA who's scared of 5G signals?

Im all for things like this, she's a bit too old for it now but would have given it a try a few years ago.
 
zorinlynx said:
YouTube's attempts to market to kids over the past few months has seriously hurt the platform. They've removed comments from anything "the algorithm" thinks is for kids (pretty much anything animated). Billions of comments made over many years on these videos, gone in an instant, and they don't care. You can't even add the videos to playlists for some reason. As an adult fan of animation this has been frustrating.

I'm so sick of so many annoying things being done "for the children." Parents should be responsible for their kids; we shouldn't have to lose features on a major website because kids might abuse them.
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Fair points however I’m not sad if they’d get rid of all comments based on the garbage that often surfaces there.
 
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