Google TV will finally solve one of the concerns that many parents have when they let their minor children use devices such as the Chromecast with Google TV or any other Smart TV with that operating system. Children’s profiles are coming to Google TV .
Google TV will be safer for children
One of the biggest concerns of all those who have less dependent children is the content that they can access through the different platforms available today.
It is true that services such as Netflix, Disney + and many others offer children’s profiles through which parents can determine what type of content will appear to them. However, this is not always enough and ideally any operating system has the most robust parental controls possible.
Google TV has not been one of these examples of an operating system with good parental controls, but the company will soon provide a solution thanks to profiles for children. It will do it at the end of March and as they have commented, this is the highlight that it will allow :
- Control of use time by minors
- Option to activate “Bedtime” that will deactivate the use of the system
- Control of the type of content available
- Control of the applications to which you will be able to access
- Recommendations of appropriate content sources for minors
- More visual and colorful interface to be more attractive to children
Thanks to these new profiles, parents also obtain indirect benefits from the use that minors will make. The main one is that they will finally be able to control their own applications and the recommendations will be based on their own use and not that of the little ones.
Because, if you have children at home, your YouTube account will surely show more content that they like than those that interest you. So, it is a double benefit that will be achieved with these new child profiles.
Finally, in addition to being able to activate these profiles from the televisions themselves that include Google’s operating system for TV, they can also be controlled from the Family Link application .
When will Google TV children’s profiles be available?
The profiles for minors will arrive on Google TV at the end of March . At first only for users in the United States, but taking into account that the new Chromecast with Google TV is already sold in many countries, it should not take long for it to be a global update.
On Google’s own official page it is indicated that in the United States it will be on time and in the rest of the countries in the following months . So be careful if you have a TV or device with Google TV. Because the next update that comes out could give you that respite you’ve been asking for for a long time.
