Google TV brings 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 household with their name and age or with an existing Google account. they should have one. From these new profiles, account holders will be able to add specific apps, upload movies purchased on other devices, custom wallpapers, and, in the coming weeks, additional avatars for their user profile.
Account holders will be able to protect their normal accounts with a PIN to prevent their children from accessing more advanced content from these user profiles. Parental controls for children’s accounts also allow account holders to set daily screen time limits and an hour to sleep. Google says child profiles will hit the device this month in the United States, followed by a broader global launch “in the coming months.”
The most important serpentines i device manufacturers have introduced additional children’s programming and parental controls for content, and Google TV’s features were previously expected to arrive this month.
Meanwhile, Apple is also focusing its efforts on providing quality children’s content, both on the Internet Apple TV + experience and, more recently, on the podcast front. In collaboration with Common Sense Media, the company has launched a Kids & Family podcast center this week 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 guess the search for programs they will love to hear from children and provide a healthy alternative to the entertainment time that everyone can enjoy “.