Parents can pause or delete their child's watch and search history through the app's parental settings, which will stop personalized recommendations; however, if profiles are linked to a Google Account, history remains tied to the profile until explicitly deleted.
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These controls give parents meaningful tools to limit data-driven recommendations, but the notice makes clear that profile-linked history persists even after reinstalling the app unless specifically deleted, which is an important operational distinction parents should understand.
Parents have in-app tools to pause or clear their child's watch and search history, which limits content personalization; however, if a Google Account profile is used, history is not reset by uninstalling the app and must be explicitly deleted per profile. Exercising these controls requires active parental engagement with the settings section of the app.
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"You can pause the collection of watch and search history or clear the watch and search history in the parental settings section of the app. When you create a profile for your child, you can pause and clear watch and search history for each child profile. While history is paused, the app will not use new video views or search terms to recommend content. When watch and search history are cleared, the app resets Recommended and Watch it again videos. Finally, you can always uninstall and reinstall the app on a device to reset the app-specific identifiers used to collect watch and search history, but if you have enabled profiles, watch and search history will remain linked to each profile until you specifically delete the history.Excerpt from YouTube Kids's Privacy Notice
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These controls give parents meaningful tools to limit data-driven recommendations, but the notice makes clear that profile-linked history persists even after reinstalling the app unless specifically deleted, which is an important operational distinction parents should understand.
Parents have in-app tools to pause or clear their child's watch and search history, which limits content personalization; however, if a Google Account profile is used, history is not reset by uninstalling the app and must be explicitly deleted per profile. Exercising these controls requires active parental engagement with the settings section of the app.
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