Hi everyone and welcome to my channel, thank you for stopping by today. If you own a Firestick,
or any other Fire TV device that has received the new updated layout, you
will no doubt by now be familiar with profiles. If you have seen my previous video discussing the
new updated layout and you have kids or grandkids, you may be interested in a new feature that has
been rolled out to more devices to allow the creation of kids profiles on your Fire TV.
If you want to find out some more, then let’s go and take a look.
Amazon’s free kid-friendly platform has been available to those in the US for some time,
so this may be old news for you. But, users in the UK and Germany are only just starting to see this
feature being rolled out to some Fire TV devices. Parents can now create kids their own profiles
which lets you set screen-time limits, share trusted children’s content and create
a personalized experience for each child. Let’s take a look at how it works,
how easy it is to set up and what useful parental control features it offers.
To add a kid’s profile, select the Add Profile icon. Then choose Create a New Profile. You now
have the option to choose if this is a child profile by toggling the option to Yes or no.
Toggling this option to Yes will then allow you to create a new child’s profile by entering their
name, date of birth and choosing a profile icon. You’ve then got the option to create a child
PIN that will keep your child in child-friendly profiles so they can’t access your parent profiles
with content that might be inappropriate. Create a PIN number, then you might get asked
if you want to sign up to the Amazon Kids+ service. This gives you unlimited access for
up to 4 children, to thousands of kid-friendly films and TV shows in their Fire TV profiles.
In the UK, this costs £4.99 per month but you can currently sign up and try it free for 1 month.
I’m going to select No Thanks and then choose Continue with my own content.
Next, if you are a Prime member, you can choose to add
child-friendly Prime video content to the child’s profile you are creating.
Next, you will get to see a list of all content you have purchased or downloaded
so you can select which content to add to the child’s profile. This keeps you in full control
over what apps that child’s profile has access to. For now, I’m going to choose Not Now.
The child’s profile is now set up and ready to select from the profile
screen. Once loaded up you can now see that they have a brand-new home screen that’s clean,
bright, and colorful but most importantly, gives access to kid-friendly content only.
As I didn’t add any other content when creating the child profile,
this profile only has access to TV shows and movies from Amazon Prime. But of course, this is
only applicable if you are a Prime subscriber and if you chose to add Prime content during set-up.
If not, then the child’s profile will be empty
until you add content manually which can easily be achieved by going into the Child Settings.
If you protected child’s profiles with a PIN, you will need to enter the PIN
to get access to the Child Settings. Tap on your child’s profile and choose Add Content.
You can then choose to add any apps or videos you own to the child’s profile. Just tap on all
of the apps you want to add, then click Done. Now when you go back into the Child profile,
you will see that those apps you selected have been added to your child’s home screen.
This keeps you fully in control over what content your kids have access
to from videos to streaming services to games. Not only do you have full control over the content
your child has access to, you can set and Manage Time Limits from with the Child Settings menu.
When you turn this on, you can set time limits by setting a bedtime and screen
time limits. Bedtime settings let you specify what hours the child’s profile can be used for.
This will default to make the profile unusable between the hours of 8pm to 8am for weekdays
and weekends but this can be adjusted to whatever is right for you and your child.
You can also set time limits by total screen time and you can make this
different for weekdays and weekends, or you can specify the time limit by activity.
This can be useful if you wanted to restrict how much time can be spent using apps and
how much time can be spent watching videos. Once your child is in their profile, if you
turned on PIN protection, they will be unable to access any other profiles that are not also
child profiles. This gives you extra peace of mind that your Fire TV is locked down,
making it much easier to share your with the younger members of your household.
I hope that you found this useful, let me know in the comments below if you
already use kids profiles or if you will be using kids profiles after watching this video.
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