TikTok Enhances Parental Supervision with New Features for Teenagers

The TikTok platform, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has announced a new feature aimed at strengthening parental supervision of teenagers’ use of the app in European Union countries.

This feature allows parents to control the amount of time their children spend on the platform through their own accounts, giving them the ability to impose a daily time limit. This option works similarly to the one provided by Instagram, a Meta app, where users aged 13 to 17 cannot exceed this limit without an adult’s approval.

In the coming weeks, the platform will add new features that will allow parents to view the accounts their children follow, the pages they visit, and the list of blocked accounts. The company is also working on launching a “pause” feature for users under 16, where the app will automatically be disabled at 10:00 PM, accompanied by relaxation exercises and soothing music, with an option to disable this feature.

In an effort to enhance content moderation, the platform announced the hiring of over 500 French-speaking moderators and more than 6,000 specialists in various European languages, stating that these numbers surpass those provided by other platforms combined.