YouTube is and will continue to be one of the best entertainment platforms on the internet. The problem is that the concern of many parents about the content that their children can see there has been increasing. For this reason, the company launched YouTube Kids , an alternative designed for the little ones and that you can now also enjoy on Amazon Fire TV . So is the experience.
YouTube Kids for Amazon Fire TV
YouTube Kids is the version of YouTube designed for the smallest of the house. A proposal where not only does the user interface change, but also the content displayed on it. And it is that the company intends that everything that minors see there is suitable for them.
To achieve this, the application offers different options at the level of parental control so that the parents or guardians of the little ones have full control of what they will see. Thus, when configuring your profile, you can choose between three sections:
- Videos for up to 4 years old
- Videos for children between 5 and 7 years old
- Videos for children between 8 and 12 years old
Therefore, each parent or guardian decides which section they think is most suitable for their child or minor in charge. If there are several children with different ages, profiles can be created for each of them. So the experience they have is personalized.
All of this is something that a father or mother or guardian can do in a very simple and visual way, with hardly any knowledge on computer topics. Because that is another of the values of YouTube Kids, its interface is designed to be very easy to use by everyone, especially the little ones. Hence those colorful graphics and the absence of multiple options such as history, lists, etc. What you are going to see is practically just and necessary to access those video and channels that you like.
Back to parental control, you can filter specific content to prevent certain videos or channels from being played, even being suitable for consumption by minors.
The YouTube Kids experience
The interface of YouTube Kids changes in a significant way with respect to that of YouTube, the one that many of us are used to. This may shock the little ones who have used the original platform from a mobile phone, tablet or computer at first.
Luckily, together with an interface with a grid where the videos appear, it is a matter of time to overcome that initial friction when it comes to finding the content that they want to see thus suggestions for related content. Anyway, prepare yourself, because at the beginning it is normal to receive a comment of the type “here are missing videos”.
YouTube Kids is not short on videos, or none of the videos they can watch are missing. But as you know, if we do not tell you, the platform has spent months making an important effort to correctly catalog the content that is intended for children who do not.
Therefore, you may have or have the feeling that something is missing, but it is not . What it is is that, perhaps, it invites less to jump from one video to another. Something that is partly fine, because it allows them to focus on what they are going to see and they are not tempted to jump from one content to another and end up not seeing anything complete. A somewhat frequent problem in the new generations.
Otherwise, on the main screen you can see a small categorization of videos by sections: recommended, programs, music, video games or educational in addition to a search engine. Another thing that many parents and guardians will also like is that there is no comment section, a slightly “dark” place on YouTube.
How to install YouTube Kids on Fire TV
Installing YouTube Kids on the Amazon Fire TV is as simple as any other application. All you have to do is visit the Fire TV app store and search for the app from your device. If you want to save yourself this step you can directly click on this link. When you do, you will see that it gives you the option to download and install.
