YouTube incorporates a timer to limit the time teenagers spend watching shorts

YouTube has announced new measures so that parents can manage their teenage children’s use of this video platform, such as limiting the time they spend watching the shorts or easily switching between an adult account and a child account on the same device.

YouTube believes that we must “protect children in the digital world, not from the digital world” and that is why in recent years it has facilitated tools for parents so they can help their children watch videos “responsibly” and introduced additional restrictions for younger users, in addition to offering age-appropriate content.

This Tuesday, the technology company announced additional measures, which are added to others such as personalized bedtime and rest time reminders. As explained in a statement, so that adolescents are aware of the consumption they make on the platform, parents will be able Set times to see the shorts.

To avoid spending hours and hours going from one video to another, you can configure them a time of zero minutes, if you want them to focus on another taskor two hours, if they have a long trip and want to be entertained, for example, with options in between that increase the time by 15 minutes.

He has also announced an “updated check-in experience”“, with which parents will be able to create a new account for their children – with content and settings adapted to their age – and switch between it and that of adults in the mobile application with just a few taps.

YouTube claims that “this way, it’s easier to ensure that everyone in the family has the right viewing experience with content settings and recommendations for age-appropriate content that they really want to watch.”

Additionally, YouTube will introduce a new set of principles to guide creators whose audience is teenagers, so that they can create “fun, age-appropriate, higher quality and more enriching content.”