News Summary

• YouTube on Tuesday announced it’s beginning to roll out age-estimation technology in the U.S. to identify teen users.
• The company says it will use a variety of signals to determine the users’ possible age, regardless of what the user entered as their birthday when they signed up for an account.
• The new system will apply only to signed-in users, as signed-out users already cannot access age-restricted content.
• The plans are also the latest step in attempting to make YouTube safer for younger users, following the 2015 launch of the YouTube Kids app and the 2024 rollout of supervised accounts.