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News India Live, Digital Desk: In today’s digital age, every parent has only one common complaint, “My child is busy in his mobile all day long!” And the biggest problem in that too are those 60 second ‘Shorts’ videos. Children start watching a reel and before they realize, hours pass by.
If you are also worried about this, now you can take a sigh of relief. YouTube has listened to all of us parents and launched a very important feature. Let us understand in simple language how this new ‘Parental Control’ will be useful for you.
Now the ‘remote’ is completely in your hands
It often happens that we give phones to children for studies or some good work, but they start scrolling shorts videos. After the new update of YouTube, you will now be able to control what your child is watching on the app and for how long.
The new features that the company has added will help you like this:
- Block Shorts: If you feel that short videos are distracting your child, you can turn off the ‘Shorts’ feed completely. Block Can also do. That means, there will be no bamboo and no flute!
- Set a Time Limit: If you want the child to watch the video but for a limited time, you can set a timer. Suppose you set a time limit of 30 minutes, after that the app will automatically stop showing shorts.
- Use of Family Link: To use these settings, you will have to take the help of Google’s ‘Family Link’ app. From there you can link your kid’s YouTube account to your phone and do all the spying… I mean, monitoring.
Why was this step necessary?
Experts say that watching shorts or reels is causing problems of distraction and increased irritability in children (and adults too). This is called ‘Doom Scrolling’. This step of YouTube is a very good initiative towards digital health.
So friends, if you are concerned about your child’s eyes and mental health, update your YouTube app today and apply these settings. Technology is good, if its remote control is in our hands!
