![]() This means that you can’t apply any account-specific settings that will make the YouTube more child friendly. You start off logged out of YouTube on your Echo Show. There’s three main steps to take, to make standard YouTube a bit more child friendly: Step 1 – Sign-in to YouTube I decided to instead use YouTube Kids on one of my Echo Shows, and to use standard YouTube on the other. This is pretty frustrating, because it means that I can’t just block standard YouTube and move on with my life. Both are 8″ ones, but YouTube Kids is really slow on one of them (and quite fast on the other). But what happens if YouTube Kids is too slow on your Echo Show? In this case, there are some steps to make standard YouTube a little more child-friendly. Either option will work fine – it just comes down to your preference.Īt this point, your device should be fairly safe. You can either block this site for all devices on the network, or you can add a profile (just for your Echo Show devices) and then block the site just for that profile. In other words, it’s not like a phone where you can simply install the “YouTube Kids” app and then uninstall/disable the “YouTube” app:īlock a site m. within my Eero app The first thing to know about the Echo Show is that it is not app based. How To ‘Enable’ YouTube Kids on an Echo Show I’ll start off with the first solution, however sometimes YouTube Kids is too slow or buggy on the Echo Show, so I cover the second solution too. Still use standard YouTube, but make it children friendly.Enable YouTube Kids on the Echo Show, and block YouTube.Luckily there’s two potential solutions here: My son was just over two years old when he learnt how to navigate YouTube on the Echo Show! Clearly it’s not suitable to allow them to surf billions of potentially-unsafe videos, so I set out looking for a solution. If your children are around and you turn your back for a second, they might end up on a violent or ‘NSFW’ video. Whilst it’s naturally awesome that the Echo Show gives simple access to billions of videos, there’s a downside too: the Echo Show gives simple access to billions of videos! However all this power has a downside… The Problem With Allowing Unrestricted YouTube Access These allow you to view smart camera and doorbell feeds, watch videos on YouTube, make and receive video calls, turnings lights on and off, and more.
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