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Instagram has announced a new feature Teen Accounts. As the name of this feature suggests, its aim is to ensure the safety of teenagers. The popular short video sharing platform Instagram has millions of teenage users. Therefore, Meta has come up with a new feature keeping in mind their safety and privacy. Through this feature, Instagram will strengthen the safety of teenagers.
This feature allows you to limit the people your teen comes in contact with on Instagram and the content your teen sees on Instagram. Let's take a closer look.
instagram teen account
With the help of this new feature, the teenager's account will automatically be transferred to the teenager account. This feature of Instagram will automatically transfer the account of a teenager under the age of 16 to a teenager account. Teen accounts have built-in security, this feature determines who can join the account and what content can be viewed. Before a teenager can access their account and make any changes to it, their parents' permission will be required.
According to Meta's latest blog post, this new feature will help any teen parent. Also, teenage users can go to Explore and select the topic whose content they want to see.
With this new facility, the following facilities will be available to the teenager's account.
private account
With this feature, each teen's account will become private, allowing them to decide who will follow them and who will not. Users who do not follow them cannot chat with them or view their content. This feature applies to teens under the age of 16 and teens under the age of 18 who sign up on the app.
Message Restrictions
Teens will only receive messages from users they follow, or who they're already connected with.
Sensitive content control
The most extreme feature within the Teenager feature is sensitive content controls, which will limit content like promoting fights or cosmetic procedures in Explore and Reels.
Limited interactions
People who follow users on Instagram who may tag you. AT Bullying feature, the Hidden Words feature can also be set to the most severe level.
Limitation of time limits
Every 60 minutes a notification will appear in your app, asking the user to close the app.
sleep mode
This sleep mode will be active from 10 PM to 7 PM, which will mute notifications and auto reply to DMs.