Instagram is launching new Teen Accounts designed for users under 16, featuring built-in safety measures, content controls, and parental monitoring tools. The move aims to protect young users from potentially harmful content while giving parents greater insight into their children's online activity.
Instagram will introduce new Teen Accounts for under-16s starting today, offering new protections for young people and greater oversight for parents.
Instagram's Teen Accounts come with built-in "protections" to help young users avoid potentially harmful or inappropriate content and allow parents to monitor how their children use the platform. Teen Accounts will automatically be set to private, with the most restrictive content controls and the highest anti-bullying restrictions applied by default.
Teen Accounts will send users notifications telling them to stop using the app after 60 minutes, and they come with a default Sleep Mode that mutes notifications and automatically replies to DMs between the hours of 10pm and 7am.All of these features come automatically enabled on the new Teen Accounts and require parental permission to modify, through Instagram's parental supervision feature.
Parents can also set daily time limits that block the app after a certain amount of use, they can block the app between pre-set times and monitor the topics their teens are viewing content about.But what if teens try to get around these new restrictions by changing their birthday in the app, or by opening a new account with an older birthday?
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