New parental controls on YouTube youth accounts to limit screen time
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YouTube is introducing new parental controls on youth accounts that it says could limit how long kinds spend scrolling. Parents of kid and teen account users are now able to enact time restrictions that will limit how long their children can scroll.
Breakdown
- YouTube introduces parental controls for youth accounts to limit Shorts screen time
- Parents can set time limits from 15 minutes to two hours on Shorts 36s
- Users under 18 cannot change time restrictions themselves 1m 7s
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