TikTok Introduces New Feature To Limit Screen Time For Teens
deadline.comTikTok today unveiled new features for teens aimed at limiting screen time to an hour a day. Accounts belonging to users under age 18 will automatically be set to a 60-minute daily screen time limit.
Once that’s hit, the service will prompt teens to enter a passcode in order to continue watching, “requiring them to make an active decision to extend that time,” he hugely popular video app owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance said in a blog post today.
For kids under 13, a parent or guardian will need to set or enter an existing passcode to enable 30 minutes of additional watch time.
The company said it consulted current academic research and experts at Boston Children’s Hospital in choosing the limit. The service will prompt teens to set a daily screen time limit if they opt out of the 60-minute default and spend more than 100 minutes on TikTok in a day.
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