Even with uncertainty surrounding the TikTok ban, the platform continues to be making an attempt to deal with security considerations with a brand new reminder that tells teenagers to cease utilizing the app at evening and extra controls for folks. If a teen beneath 16 continues to be utilizing the app after 10PM, TikTok will interrupt their feed with a full-screen “wind down” reminder, which can play “calming music to assist teenagers chill out and be aware of the time.”
TikTok is making some updates to its Household Pairing characteristic as nicely, which already lets mother and father put restrictions on their youngster’s account. It’s launching a brand new Time Away characteristic that may enable mother and father or caregivers to forestall their youngster from occurring TikTok throughout particular instances, in addition to set a recurring schedule. TikTok may also give mother and father the flexibility to see who their teen is following, who follows them, and which accounts their youngster has blocked.
Although teenagers can ignore TikTok’s preliminary 10PM reminder, it’s going to show one other immediate that’s more durable to dismiss. TikTok plans on increasing this wind-down characteristic sooner or later, because it’s going to start out testing incorporating meditation workouts into the reminder “within the coming weeks.”
Moreover, TikTok says it’s going to proceed to make use of age assurance expertise, together with machine studying, to forestall youngsters beneath 13 from utilizing the app. It’s partnering with the telecom firm Telefonica “to know how individuals can use age data from their telephone supplier to verify their age.” Google additionally just lately introduced that it will begin utilizing machine studying to estimate customers’ ages.
