YouTube Kids for Android TV

Cory Pahl

2 years ago

1 star until the app allows for kids profiles like the mobile app

Tomasz Linkowski

2 years ago

Not able to whitelist what my kids watch like I can on the Android phone.

ednang Coyne

3 years ago

Seriously, the Youtube kids app for Google's own platform doesn't respect youtube premium and forces ads on your kids even though you pay to not watch them? No options, no settings? Put some effort into this please...

Travis Li

2 years ago

no supervised account sign in, no roaming history, slow recommendation refresh

Tim Gager

2 years ago

How am I not able to block particular channels like other YouTube Kids apps? Also, I have YouTube Premium - why are ads showing up.

Boro Nderi

3 years ago

Voice search would be a very good feature to replicate what is on YT Kids Android phone/tablet

Jurica Vukadin

3 years ago

Playing one of those hour long combo nursery rhyme videos and want to go back to the start? Enjoy holding the rewind key for minutes. The VHS players in the 80s didn't make you do that. What kind of garbage UX is this? Does the "Kids" in the title mean it was created by kids?

Ivan Lopes

2 years ago

The lack of option to sign-in on Chromecasts is a deal breaker. Absolutely not acceptable to have it like this.

Andrew Hynek

2 years ago

This app doesn't support kids profiles, which makes it impossible to block videos / channels for them. "Use the mobile app" it says... I would gladly if that worked on the TV.

Stephen Brown

2 years ago

There's no option to sign my kids in, and there's no Shared section like there is in the mobile app, so I can't whitelist specific channels or videos. I'd rather let my kids watch the full version of youtube, but Google won't let me make that decision for myself. Thanks for nothing.

Swapnil Sahu

2 years ago

On Android TV, app freezes every now and then. Using it on Hisense TV with Google TV. App freezes just while browsing. Only workaround is to hit back button and wait for app exit window to appear and then cancelling the operation. It is just a pain to operate.

Kaz Kylheku

2 years ago

Only a toy without voice search. Nobody wants to mess around with on-screen keyboards, or even remotes with physical keyboards, on Android TV. This is a complete nonstarter. The textual search has a way of sucking on top of that. I used it in Japanese. The on-screen keyboard lets you only enter hiragana, which doesn't convert to kanji and katakana words, resulting in poor search results. Searches you use often cannot just be saved somewhere; that would help.

SeungYong Han

3 years ago

It has some good contents, but the major problem to me is that I (and my kid) can still watch a certain channel in this app (I use it on Google TV) even though I blocked the same channel on the other devices (e.g., a cell phone or iPad) my kid uses. There is simply no "block" button in this version of the app. It doesn't sync at all, and it's quite sad that a company like Google fails to handle it immediatly. It's a very important feature when it comes to any kid apps.