With parents consistently complaining about video-sharing app TikTok, the app decided to make them a peace offer with control over their child’s account. TikTok parental controls include a range of tools from monitoring what their teenagers can view on the platform, to letting their hand in the content cookie jar.
TikTok, the video-sharing platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has been under fire for a range of reasons. From user safety to data security. However, the most common reason for TikTok bans have been parents petitioning for ban.
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So TikTok just offered parents more control over their children’s accounts. The platform announced that aside from monitoring their child’s account. Parents can now exert much more control on what their child can view, use and do on the platform. TikTok parental controls can now be used for;
- Comments: Decide who can comment on your teen’s videos (everyone, friends, no one)
- Discoverability: Decide whether your teen’s account is private (your teen decides who can see their content) or public (anyone can search and view content)
- Liked Videos: Many people enjoy finding new videos to watch that others they follow have also enjoyed, but this control empowers families to decide whether others can see the list of videos your teen has liked
- Direct Messages: Turn off direct messaging completely. With user safety in mind, we already have policies and controls for messaging. For example, direct messaging is automatically disabled for those under 16, only approved followers can message each other, and images and videos cannot be sent in messages.
Essentially parents can now decide what content, users, hashtags, or sounds their children can search for. They can also control if the teen’s account should be public or remain private.
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This is part of the app’s Family Pairing feature introduced earlier this year. The feature allows parents to link their TikTok account to that of their teenage child.
“Using Family Pairing, parents can help guide their teen’s browsing experience with the following controls: Search, Screen time Management, Restricted Mode”
With the expansion of this feature from connectivity to control, parents can basically curate a lot of their child’s online experience on the platform.
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