We only waited this five stars so it would be shown so let us tell the story we thought that this would be a nice start because our kids were getting a little bored with only a few streaming choices they had and they watch the same thing over and over so we thought this would be a little nice thing to have full control over but then we got it. It’s like we have no control and then the next thing we know after our kids are watching it for a while they get addicted to it and then they act like these spoiled brat Youtubers. and we think it’s not appropriate for kids like it’s a great app and all just you could use more choices and let the parent have more control over what their own kids are watching. Because our kids have become snotty little brats after they’ve been watching these inappropriate videos behind our backs. They never acted like this until they’ve watched this and we were like so surprised how they attitude and personalities just changed all because of this one app and we don’t think it’s appropriate for any kid.

We love this app and the only reason I gave it 3 stars is because there isn’t anywhere on the app that I can block content about one subject. My grandkids are crazy about one topic and it’s not appropriate for their age, on top of it’s generally narrated by adults or older teens, our youngest is 4. In order to block it I have to block every single video that has the name in the contents and every week there are new ones. As parents and grandparents it’s important to be able to block entire content. So while they may be way past Coco Melon they are certainly not ready for Catnap. Inevitably it ends up in a war over what we want them watching and the elimination of what would be some great content (books, animal video’s, learning to play with each other), and when they are drawn back in by the suggestive videos that scroll along the bottom, it often will include the items we don’t want them seeing and ends up with the elimination of the app all together. Please, if you could allow a broad “block” based on the name we don’t want them viewing. It would be so helpful! I would be glad to come back and give it a 5 star. It’s truly the only reason I gave it a 3. Everything else is great! But if blocking isn’t available, it becomes unusable.

Love this app so much for my 3 year old daughter who is autistic. Lets her have control of what she wants to watch and she can click around and rewind or fast forward 12 times in a row as an ASD stim or for her sensory processing. My only complaint for autistic children or any parent concerned for volume would lack of parental control of volume. My daughter and I have heard other ASD children love shows at full volume, it would be great if there was a setting option for parent controlled volume. The only way I can get around this is to use guided access on her iPad, circle & gray out the volume area but then she can’t go to other apps she likes to switch between game puzzle apps and YT kids app, when I guide it she is stuck on YT kids and being non verbal has to bring the iPad to me to unlock for her to go to the other apps when unlocked she goes back into YT kids and turns the volume to full blast. Please please create a parent control option for volume especially for parents of special needs children. Thank you.

I’m not going to talk about the inconsistency of the choices on whether or not a channel or video gets allowed on here, but my problem has always been the UI. The recent UI update isn’t terrible but it just sorta looks nicer. One of the most important things lacking is a button to skip back and fast forward by a few seconds. This is especially a problem for longer videos when you just want to go back and see something that just happened and you have to try and scroll back as close as you can. Another problem is that not every channel gets a channel page which makes it less organized especially when you just want to watch some of their channel. Also with channel pages, I don’t like that they show a few of the most recent videos, then most popular, and then chronological releases. I wish you could switch between chronological and most popular so it’s easier to find videos. I also want an option to turn of the sounds effects that play when you press anything, because they’re quite annoying. If simplification is the problem then maybe these should be togglable options in parental settings.