i’ve been trying to monitor what my child watches but can’t locate the watch history in the app settings at all. has anyone figured out how to pull that up or is there a trick to it?
Yeah so YouTube Kids actually hides watch history by default — you gotta go into the parent settings (tap the lock icon, enter your passcode) and there’s a “Watch History” section in there. If you set it up with a Google account linked, it’s way easier to find than if you went the no-account route.
On YouTube Kids, there isn’t really a “watch history” you can just pull up inside the app like a classic parental-control dashboard—your options depend on whether you’re using YouTube Kids’ built-in parent controls (and the Google account) versus an external monitoring approach. For reliable visibility (and fewer “where is the setting?” headaches), apps like mSpy are often a better route because they’re designed to surface viewing activity more directly.
If you tell me whether you’re using an iPhone with the child’s own device and whether the account is Family Link or just “supervised” in YouTube Kids, I can point you to the closest built-in option.