{"id":178375,"date":"2026-01-14T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/youtube-will-let-parents-stop-their-teens-from-endlessly-scrolling-short-videos\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:15:26","slug":"youtube-will-let-parents-stop-their-teens-from-endlessly-scrolling-short-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/youtube-will-let-parents-stop-their-teens-from-endlessly-scrolling-short-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube will let parents stop their teens from endlessly scrolling short videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/14\/tech\/youtube-parental-controls-shorts\">YouTube will let parents stop their teens from endlessly scrolling short videos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/14\/tech\/youtube-parental-controls-shorts\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/14\/tech\/youtube-parental-controls-shorts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-14 14:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>YouTube introduces new parental controls to limit time spent on its video short-form feature, Shorts, allowing parents to set time limits ranging from 0 to 120 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Parents can also set bedtime reminders and \u201ctake a break\u201d prompts for their teen\u2019s account.<\/li>\n<li>YouTube simplifies the process of creating supervised accounts for kids and switching between minor and adult accounts on shared devices.<\/li>\n<li>The platform updates content recommendations to prioritize videos on curiosity, life skills, and credible information that supports wellbeing.<\/li>\n<li>YouTube announced last year using AI to place suspected teen users automatically under its protective under-18 settings.<\/li>\n<li>Google has updated its policy requiring parental approval before users 13 and older can remove parental supervision, enhancing protections concerning account management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube will let parents stop their teens from endlessly scrolling short videos https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/14\/tech\/youtube-parental-controls-shorts Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2245630548.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178377,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178375\/revisions\/178377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}