New accounts offer age-appropriate content, parental controls, and enhanced privacy features for children YouTube has introduced supervised kid accounts across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), giving parents greater control over their children’s viewing experience while allowing young users to safely explore the platform with enhanced protections. The rollout covers Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Iraq. The new accounts are designed for families whose children are ready to use the main YouTube app but still require parental supervision. The supervised kid accounts provide access to YouTube with age-appropriate content settings, stronger privacy protections and a range of parental control features. Parents can choose from three content categories—Explore, Explore More, and Most of YouTube—allowing them to tailor the viewing experience based on their child’s maturity level. The highest setting excludes videos rated for adults or considered unsuitable for supervised accounts. Among the key features is what YouTube describes as an industry-first Shorts feed timer, enabling parents to set daily limits on scrolling through YouTube Shorts or disable the feature entirely. Parents can also activate reminders encouraging children to take breaks or stop watching at bedtime, supporting healthier digital habits. [...]
