Even with uncertainty surrounding the TikTok ban, the platform continues to be attempting to handle security issues with a new reminder that tells teenagers to cease utilizing the app at night time and extra controls for folks. If a teen below 16 continues to be utilizing the app after 10PM, TikTok will interrupt their feed with a full-screen “wind down” reminder, which is able to play “calming music to assist teenagers calm down and be aware of the time.”
TikTok is making some updates to its Household Pairing function as properly, which already lets dad and mom put restrictions on their little one’s account. It’s launching a brand new Time Away function that can permit dad and mom or caregivers to stop their little one from happening TikTok throughout particular occasions, in addition to set a recurring schedule. TikTok will even give dad and mom the power to see who their teen is following, who follows them, and which accounts their little one has blocked.
Although teenagers can ignore TikTok’s preliminary 10PM reminder, it’ll show one other immediate that’s more durable to dismiss. TikTok plans on increasing this wind-down function sooner or later, because it’s going to start out testing incorporating meditation workout routines into the reminder “within the coming weeks.”
Moreover, TikTok says it’ll proceed to make use of age assurance expertise, together with machine studying, to stop youngsters below 13 from utilizing the app. It’s partnering with the telecom company Telefonica “to know how folks can use age data from their cellphone supplier to verify their age.” Google additionally lately introduced that it might begin utilizing machine studying to estimate customers’ ages.