Choose which video services to turn on or off

Filters can help you place limits on how people in your household can use your Google Nest or Home speaker or display. You can use Filters to do things like block access to music with explicit lyrics, or define which video services are enabled.

Note: Filters are a part of Google Nest or Home speaker or display’s Digital Wellbeing, a set of tools that you can use to control when and how your speakers or displays are used. Learn how to set up Digital Wellbeing on your speaker or display.

If you’ve already set up Digital Wellbeing, but want to set up or change your filter settings, learn how to set up Filters on your speaker or display.

How to block YouTube on your Google Nest display

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. At the top of the screen, select the home you want.
3. Tap your display  Settings   Notifications & digital wellbeing.
4. Tap Digital wellbeing  Set up Next.
   • Note: To skip setting up Filters, tap Skip. You can always come back to set it up later.
5. Choose who you want the Filters to apply to:
   1. Everyone - Filters apply to everyone using your Nest display.
   2. Only Supervised Accounts and guests - Filters apply only to Google Accounts managed with Family Link and guests.  The Filters you select will not be applied to your account or unsupervised accounts.
6. Select the Nest display you want the Filters to apply to  tap Next.
7. On the Video Filters screen - By default, the selection will be to only play videos from YouTube Restricted mode and YouTube Kids. However, you can also block all video content when you select the "Block all" option.

Video Filter settings

You can choose whether video filtering applies to all users or guests, and users with accounts managed by Family Link. Filters can be applied to a specific speaker or display, or all of your speakers and displays.

Allow any video

No video services will be blocked. Your Nest display will play any video that is requested.

Only filtered videos

You can choose which video services are available. When you select this option, you’ll be presented with a list of available video services, including family-friendly services such as YouTube Kids. Tap on a service to enable or disable that service while the filter is on.

Block all videos

No videos from any service will be played when requested.