EBN–TikTok, a social media platform, has unveiled a long-awaited feature on its well-liked app that lets parents in EU nations set time limits for their teenagers’ usage.
Parents can now set daily time limitations for their teenagers right from their accounts with this new function, which is named “Family Connection.”
An eagerly anticipated new feature
In the upcoming weeks, the platform—which is owned by the Chinese business ByteDance and has over 175 million monthly users in the EU—will also let parents see whose pages, accounts, and accounts their teenagers have blocked on the app.
A long-awaited new feature
The platform, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance and with more than 175 million monthly users in the European Union , announced that in the coming weeks, it will also allow parents to see which accounts their teens follow on the app, which pages, and which accounts they have blocked.
In this regard, the app spokesperson confirmed that oversight allowed the deletion of more than 24 million accounts worldwide between June and September 2024, suspected of being owned by individuals under the age of 13, the minimum age required to use the app.
It reported that it has employed more than 500 French-speaking mediators and more than 6,000 specialists in European languages, noting that these numbers exceed those employed by various other platforms combined.
One feature that cannot be gotten around is Family Connect.
This new app feature is comparable to what Instagram, a rival platform owned by the American business Meta, has been providing for a number of months. It is impossible to get around this feature, which prevents users between the ages of 13 and 17 from using the app for a while, unless an adult changes it.
Relaxing feature
Additionally, TikTok will introduce a meditation tool for those under the age of sixteen. The app will no longer offer calming music-accompanied relaxation workouts after 10 p.m. It is possible to deactivate this feature.
It’s worth noting that the short video platform TikTok gained significant popularity after its launch in 2017, quickly surpassing Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube in terms of downloads in 2018. The platform also saw an estimated 45% increase in the number of active users between July 2020 and July 2022.
