Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
Tl; DR
- YouTube will begin to estimate the age of its American viewers from today August 13.
- The platform will use AI to determine if you are under the age of 18 and automatically apply experiences adapted to age to your account.
- You can contest the age estimate by providing an identity document from the government, a selfie or a credit card.
Update, August 13, 2025 (4:59 p.m. He): Like promised, the checks of the new age of YouTube were presented online, and users already report restrictions because the system suspects that they can be minors.
On youtube sub of Reddit, user Galvasov (Among others) Share the notification that appears in the application when YouTube wants to check your age.
If you also find yourself failing these checks and presenting this message to you, you can either choose to accept the new limitations of your account, or try to establish your age by providing an identifier, a selfie or a credit card, as we already knew.
Original article, August 13, 2025 (12:00 p.m.): YouTube will begin to deploy its new age estimate system powered by AI in the United States from todayAugust 13. Announced last month for the first time, the functionality uses artificial intelligence to determine if a user is probably less than 18 years, depending on factors such as their vision habits, the YouTube research history and the duration of their account. This process applies to all YouTube accounts, regardless of the date of birth input when registering.
If youtube AI concludes that you are under the age of 18, you will receive a notification informing you of the same thing. You can contest this by checking your age through an identity document issued by the government, a selfie or a credit card.
For the accounts indicated as belonging to adolescents, YouTube will automatically allow its features adapted to age, which include:
- Showing only non -personalized advertisements
- Activate digital well-being tools as “take a break” and reminders to the default
- Show confidentiality reminders when downloading videos or publication of public comments
- Reduce recommendations for videos that could be problematic if they are watched several times
And is Youtube’s rule for years, you must be 18 years old or more to display videos limited by age.
Why do users grow up?
Although YouTube intends to protect young viewers, some users have not taken their efforts to estimate the new age well. Many fear that the system may qualify them as adolescents based solely on certain vision models.
“I let the children of my cousins watch some of their programs when I keep them, and I do not care to give my identifier to YouTube, especially since I had a Google account for 20 odd years now,” noted a user on Reddit.
However, youtube previously confirmed What to watch too many Roblox videos may not be a problem.
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“Pokémon, Minecraft, Anime and Roblox are for everyone!” We understand that YouTube users have a variety of interests. Our age estimate model does not look at many different signals to reach this determination, including, but not video and video activity. had said.
Others are uncomfortable to download government identifiers to prove their age and worry about privacy.
“With this ascent of the AI and an increased request for personal information from users, I really believe that the Internet will be so fundamentally different in 5 years that parts of it will simply become broken,” wrote a user on
YouTube underlines that the submission of identification is optional, and those who undress can always use the platform with the standard adolescent protections applied. Adolescent accounts can access most content on YouTube, with the exception of limited older videos containing violence or excessive nudity.
Meanwhile, the new verification system does not seem to affect users who look at YouTube without signing, a bypass solution already consider avoiding AI controls.
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