Tikitok announced On Tuesday that new features are released to protect adolescents in its application. The social network enables parents to prevent the teenager from using Tiktok during certain hours and see the catalogs of adolescents and their followers through new feature of family match. Tiktok is also going to encourage new users to put their phones away at night and sleep.
With the new feature “Away”, parents can block their adolescents from accessing Tiktok in times of control.
For example, they may choose to prevent access during family time, school, at night or a weekend away. Parents can also use the function to set a repetitive program for when they want to prevent access to the application. While teenagers can ask for extra time, parents can decide whether they want to grant access.
In addition, parents can now see who the teenager is following and who follows them. They can also see who their teenager has blocked. Tiktok says this will allow parents to help their adolescents develop digital education skills and have constant conversations with them about security.
In the coming months, when a teenager mentions a video that they believe may be against Tiktok’s rules, they may choose to warn a parent, even if they do not use family matching.
In addition, Tiktok is also going to activate the adolescent stem food.
As for the new “Wind-Down” feature that encourages new users to turn off their phone at night, Tiktok believes it will help teenagers create balanced digital habits. Now, when a teenager under the age of 16 is in Tiktok after 10 pm, their supplies will show a full -screen redemption with calming music to encourage them to relax and watch out for the season. If a teenager rejects the message, Tiktok will display a second full -screen prompt.
In the coming weeks, Tiktok is going to try the addition of meditation exercises to the feature of the wind.
Tiktok has introduced new teen security features in recent years, responding to concerns about the impact of the application to its younger users. Tiktok and other social networks have addressed questions from legislators during Congress’s hearing about how their platforms can negatively affect new users. The new features announced today are part of the company’s efforts to calm the legislators.
The latest features come as Tiktok’s fate in the US remains uncertain, as President Donald Trump has expanded the Tiktok Ban deadline of up to 75 days in January.
