Setting up YouTube safe search on Windows laptops

To prevent students from seeing all kinds of inappropriate YouTube videos in their browser, this can be switched off. It's fairly easy to do via Intune.

In the Intune admin center, choose:

Select Windows 10 and later as the Platform. Select Settings catalog as the Profile type and click Create at the bottom.

Give the new profile a name, e.g. "Safe YouTube", and click Next at the bottom.

Click + Add settings
Type "youtube" in the search bar and click Search.
Click Google Google Chrome. 2 results appear; tick both:
✅ Force minimum YouTube Restricted Mode
✅ Force minimum YouTube Restricted Mode (User)

Now click Microsoft Edge. Again, 2 results appear; tick both:
✅ Force minimum YouTube Restricted Mode
✅ Force minimum YouTube Restricted Mode (User)

Now click the cross at the top right of the Search button.

Then set all the toggles to Enabled and, in each of the drop-down boxes, choose Moderate Restricted or Strict Restricted, depending on how safe you want the results to be.

Click Next at the bottom and click Next again under Scope tags

Under "Included groups", click Add groups and select the student group(s).

Click Next, check the settings and click Create

Intune will now roll out this setting to the student accounts. From now on, those accounts can no longer use add-ons or extensions unless they have been explicitly installed from Intune.

Updated on: 03/11/2026