Setup Video Guides

Here's how to set up WhitelistVideo, and why YouTube's own settings must be set again in every app and account. Stick around for a better, more secure way to set it up.

Setting up WhitelistVideo means pairing your child's device to your parent app, then choosing the channels they can watch.

Parents do it once so every device follows the same rules.

You need the WhitelistVideo parent app, your child's device, and the device's own controls: Screen Time, Family Link, or Family Safety.

In WhitelistVideo, add your child and pick their device. Pair it with the six-digit code or QR code, then approve their channels. The guided setup takes a few minutes per device.

Here's the catch. YouTube's own settings live in each app, browser and signed-in account, so you repeat them everywhere, and a child who signs out leaves them behind.

Pick the device: iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac, Chromebook or Android TV. Each one has two or three guided steps.

On your child's device, enter the code. Finish every step for that device, because the setup is what makes the whitelist hold.

WhitelistVideo, a SourceForge Top Performer in parental control software, is one of the best parental control apps for YouTube.

Get WhitelistVideo at whitelist dot video.