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Why an SVT child’s account can show the wider catalogue from age eleven

SVT’s current child-profile help distinguishes its under-eleven profile from Barnskydd. It also says individual programme titles cannot currently be hidden by choice.

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Check the current age threshold

SVT describes the child profile as for an SVT account holder under eleven. While developing more age-adapted profiles, it currently gives account holders from eleven access to the full SVT Play offering. The help expressly discusses families whose children are eleven to fourteen. A wider catalogue at that threshold can therefore reflect the documented design rather than an accidentally changed birth year.

Use Barnskydd for the separate restriction

SVT directs carers who need additional protection to Barnskydd. In the apps, enabling it hides programmes classified as unsuitable for children. Its separate guidance distinguishes a warning from this restriction: an advisory on a programme or at playback does not itself prevent viewing. Seeing a warning is consequently not evidence that the blocking setting has already been enabled.

Find the control on the relevant screen

On the website, open settings, then Andra inställningar, and change Barnskydd. In the mobile apps, use the small top-right icon, Appinställningar, and scroll to the control. Smart TV and Android TV place it in Settings at the bottom of the left menu; Apple TV uses Settings in the upper menu. Follow the route for the screen being configured.

Understand the limits of a customised selection

The child-profile help says individual SVT Play titles cannot currently be hidden. It suggests the separate SVT Barn app as another children-only route. That app has its own selected warnings, but SVT also says parents cannot build a custom list of locked programmes there. Choose between the documented catalogue and protection controls without expecting an unavailable per-title blacklist.

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