A Google Workspace for Education account is an email address given to you by your school. In this type of account, your school administrator manages your access to Google products like YouTube.
Starting September 1 and rolling out over the following weeks, if your school admin marks you under 18 years old, you will no longer see your YouTube channel tied to your school account. You will also no longer be able to upload new videos to that channel. You will see a new limited version of YouTube designed for schools, which is automatically applied to students under 18. This change only impacts your YouTube experience on your school account. It does not change what you can see and do on YouTube while signed in to your personal account.
Account restrictions for users under 18
If you’re in a primary or secondary institution and marked under the age of 18 by your school administrator, you’ll have restrictions on YouTube content and features when you’re signed in to your Google Workspace for Education account.
Here are some of the features that won’t be available:
Watch
- Live stream videos
Engage
- Notifications (except personalized notifications with highlights of activity)
- Comments
- Live Chat
- Create
- Channel
- Live stream
- Posts
- Public and unlisted playlist
- Stories
- Shorts
- Video uploads
Buy
- Channel memberships
- Creator merchandise
- Donations YouTube Giving
- Movies & TV Shows
- Super Chat & Super Stickers
YouTube Apps
- YouTube Go
- YouTube Music
- YouTube Studio
- YouTube TV
- YouTube VR
Misc
- Cast on TV
- Connected gaming accounts
- Incognito
- Personalized ads
- Restricted Mode
Download and save your videos and content
If you’re over the age of 18:
- Contact your school admin:
- Ask your school admin to mark your account as over 18.
- After your admin has updated your settings:
- Sign in to YouTube.
- Go to create a channel, and complete the workflow. Your account will be made visible and you can continue creating videos on your school account’s YouTube channel.
If you’re under 18:
- Use Google Takeout to download and save your videos and other data (like comments and search history) that you’ve created on YouTube.
- If your account was created before Sept 2021, you will have until June 2022 to download your data via Google Takeout.
- If your account was created after Sept 2021, you will have 60 days to download your data from the time your school administrator marks you as under 18.
- Note: Google Takeout is only available if your school administrator enables it for your account.