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Every one of us uses YouTube either for listening to music, watching funny videos or educational content. Additionally, YouTube offers many cartoons for the younger audience, which is why children enjoy watching them on your phone YouTube app.
But curious as they are, kids are constantly touching the screen and may accidentally change the video, like inappropriate content that may influence video suggestions, or unintentionally subscribe to a channel.
Additionally, if you are not using YouTube Kids, but are letting your children watch on the regular YouTube platforms, there may be videos in your watch history that you don't want them to see. This is why you should know how to lock screen on YouTube so your kids don’t get to inappropriate content or carelessly tap away to other apps.
In this post, we’ll show you how to lock the YouTube screen on iPhone and Android.
Conveniently, iPhone provides a built-in feature that allows you to lock your phone screen while playing YouTube videos.
The Guided Access feature restricts both what you can see on the screen and what you can tap on your device’s screen while it’s active. It works only for certain applications like YouTube, meaning you can’t use any other apps on your device while Guided Access is on.
Here’s how to lock the screen while watching YouTube:
Bonus: How to turn off age restriction on YouTube.
Android also offers the option to lock your screen while using certain apps with the App or Screen pinning feature.
The App or Screen pinning allows you to lock the entire phone screen and run only one app, like YouTube. This feature also helps stop your children from accidentally tapping on the screen and changing apps.
Enabling the App/Screen pinning feature may differ depending on the phone model, but in general, these are the steps:
Apart from the built-in device features on Android and iPhone, there are many third-party lock screen apps available on the Google Play Store or App Store that enable you to lock your phone screen with any app including the YouTube app.
Also read: How to hide videos on YouTube.
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