Google TV is bringing new parental controls to your streaming device.
The company announced that as of Monday, parents or guardians can now create individual profiles for each of the children in their families with their name and age or an existing Google account, they should have one. From these new profiles, account holders will be able to add specific applications, upload movies purchased on other devices, personalized backgrounds and, in the coming weeks, additional avatars for their user profile.
Account holders will have the ability to protect their regular accounts with a PIN to prevent their children from accessing adult content from these user profiles. Parental controls for children’s accounts also allow account holders to set daily screen time limits, as well as bedtime. Google says that children’s profiles will arrive on the device this month in the United States, followed by a broader global launch “in the coming months”.
Majority streamers and device manufacturers introduced additional children’s programming and parental controls for content, and Google TV features were previously expected to arrive this month.
Apple, for its part, is also focusing its efforts on delivering quality children’s content, both in the Apple TV + experience and, more recently, on the front of podcasts. In partnership with Common Sense Media, the company this week launched a Kids & Family podcast hub that can suggest content by age, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Common Sense Media EIC Jill Murphy said in a statement that the curated podcast collection “will help families not to guess finding programs that children love to hear and will provide a healthy entertainment alternative that everyone can enjoy”.