The Google Home app lets you block explicit music and videos on your Google and other voice assistant-enabled speakers and displays. You can set up content filters that prevent explicit content from playing on services like YouTube and other music or radio apps.
Tip: If you manage your child's Google Account in Family Link, you can set up parental controls on devices in your home.
Important: No filter is 100% effective, but these filters can help you manage access to mature content.Set up Filters
- Open the Google Home app
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- At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial.
- Tap Home settings
Digital Wellbeing
Important: For Digital Wellbeing to work correctly, your devices and apps must be up to date.
If you set up Gemini for Home voice assistant, you can also filter Gemini for Home responses.
How filters work
You can choose whether filters affect everyone using your device, or just guests and children with a Family Link account. You can apply filters to a specific device or to all supported devices.
Important: Even if you turn on video and other content filters, you can still open videos and other content through news, podcasts and websites. For example, if you block videos but allow websites, people may still be able to open videos through websites.Video
- Allow any video: Your device will play all supported videos.
- Only allow filtered videos: Your device will only play videos from the video services that you choose.
- Block all videos: Your device won’t play any videos.
Music
Important: Regardless of your music filter setting, audiobooks and radio stations from services like iHeartRadio and TuneIn are always available.
- Allow any music: Your device will play all music.
- Only allow non-explicit music: Your device will allow you to choose from music services that can play non-explicit songs.
- Block all music: Your device won’t play any music.
News
- Allow news: Your device will play all supported news.
- Block news: Your device won’t play any news.
Podcasts
- Allow podcasts: Your device will play all supported podcasts.
- Block podcasts: Your device won’t play any podcasts.
Calls
- Allow calls: Your device can make any voice and video calls that it supports.
- Block all calls: Your device won’t make voice or video calls. This doesn't block voice messages that you broadcast to your family or in your home.
Voice assistant answers
Allow all answers: Your device can respond with any supported answer.
Family-friendly answers only: Your device only responds to basic questions like weather, maths, definitions and other simple facts.
- Tip: Examples of simple facts are the number of days until a holiday or the location of a city.
Websites
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This filter is only available on voice assistant-enabled devices. If you link a supervised account for a child under 13 or the applicable age in your country to your voice assistant-enabled device, the web may be blocked unless you allow websites.
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Google's voice assistant-enabled devices can open the web through SafeSearch technology, which may block explicit websites. Certain third-party devices don't support SafeSearch. If you allow websites on these third-party devices, people who use third-party voice assistant-enabled devices will not be able to find the web with SafeSearch.
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Allow websites: Your voice assistant-enabled device will open websites.
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Block websites: Your voice assistant-enabled device won't open websites.
Why the web or a website may be unavailable
- Can't access the web if Digital Wellbeing filters are turned on or a supervised account is linked to your smart display. Learn why the web is turned off in these scenarios.
- Can't access explicit websites if you use a SafeSearch-enabled device. This feature is turned on for everyone and can't be turned off. Learn why explicit websites are filtered.
Additional settings for YouTube, YouTube Music, YouTube TV
Turn on Restricted mode for YouTube Music and YouTube video search
- Open the Google Home app
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- Tap Home
All
, then touch and hold your device's tile.
- Tap Settings
Notifications and Digital Wellbeing
- Under 'Use Restricted mode', turn on Restrict for me or Restrict when someone isn’t recognised.
Learn more about YouTube Restricted mode.
Turn on content filters for YouTube TV
You can allow only programmes that are rated YT-Y, YT-G, G and PG.
Note: YouTube TV is available throughout the United States.
- Open the Google Home app
- Tap Home
- Tap Settings
- Under ‘Filter content for YouTube TV', turn off Filter for me.
Turn off auto-play next video for YouTube
- Open the Google Home app
- Tap Home
- Tap Settings
- Under 'Auto-play next video', tap Turn off for me or Turn off when someone isn’t recognised.