Currently there are millions of apps and games in app stores like Google Play Store. But many of these apps and games are not kid-friendly, and even dangerous.
Fortunately, Google now has a feature that makes it easier for parents to choose the right apps for their kids. Veronica Utami, Marketing Director of YouTube at Google said that currently in the Play Store there is a category of apps and games specifically for children.
"We recently launched a children's tab on Google Play. This tab specifically contains applications that have been reviewed by teachers," said Veronica in a virtual media briefing, Wednesday (30/6/2021).
Veronica added that all the apps available in the children's tab have been approved by teachers. To determine which apps are appropriate for this tab, Google consulted with local evaluators as well as faculty from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Georgetown University.
In this tab, applications and games have also been grouped according to the age of children, namely 5 years old and above, 6-8 years old, and 9-12 years old.
Parents can also set which apps their children can access using the Family Link app. Through this application, parents can also monitor and manage their children's time when using gadgets, manage their children's Google accounts, and so on.
In addition to monitoring the applications that children can use, parents are also asked to take care of their children when surfing the internet so that they do not see content that is not suitable for their age.
There are many ways to filter the content children consume, for example by enabling SafeSearch on Google and using the YouTube Kids app for children. Even children who have reached the age of adolescence, the content they watch on YouTube can still be regulated.
"Especially for children who are growing up, over 13 years old, there is an experience like supervised, where the Google account already managed through our Family Link can manage their YouTube use, giving a little more freedom for the content that YouTube has but there some features we have limited," Veronica closed.
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