This new TikTok characteristic is designed to assist particular customers shut the app

Doomscrolling on TikTok at night time is a behavior that is tough for some to interrupt, and it appears TikTok is now taking motion to deal with this concern, notably amongst teenage customers.

TikTok has announced that it’s rolling out a brand new in-app meditation characteristic designed to encourage customers underneath the age of 16 to “wind down” utilizing the app after 10pm with a full-screen reminder that performs “calming music to assist teenagers calm down and be conscious of the time.” If a teen chooses to disregard the primary wind-down reminder, the TikTok app will current a second one which’s more durable to dismiss.

TikTok states it would check “extra meditation workouts” as a part of the wind-down reminder within the “coming weeks.” The corporate additionally mentions that almost all teenagers have chosen to maintain the wind-down reminder enabled in nations the place it has examined this characteristic so far. Hopefully TikTok lets adults allow this characteristic sooner or later to allow them to additionally cease doomscrolling.

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TikTok is including extra parental controls

Dad and mom can now determine what occasions their youngster cannot use the app

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Alongside its new meditation characteristic, TikTok is introducing a brand new choice known as “Time Away” for fogeys and caregivers utilizing Household Pairing, TikTok’s parental management settings. Time Away will enable dad and mom to find out when their teen can and can’t use the app. As an illustration, a mother or father can set Time Away for particular hours in the course of the week, akin to throughout faculty, so their teen is unable to entry TikTok in any respect. When the teenager makes an attempt to make use of TikTok throughout Time Away, a display will seem stating, “Your mother or father or guardian scheduled time away for you,” blocking entry to the app.

TikTok can be enabling dad and mom to see who their teen follows on TikTok and who follows them. The platform has confronted criticism relating to the potential results its app can have on a teen’s psychological well being, so these new options are an try to deal with these issues. Stephanie Balkam, CEO and founding father of the Household On-line Security Institute (FOSI), recommended TikTok’s newest initiative, stating it’s “a welcome growth for households trying to each defend their kids from hurt and empower them as accountable digital residents.”

Moreover, TikTok introduced a partnership with Telefónica (a telecom firm) “to grasp how folks can use age data from their telephone supplier to substantiate their age.” In January, TikTok was temporarily shut down within the US. In accordance with the manager order signed by President Trump, TikTok has till early April to safe a US-based purchaser or threat one other shutdown within the US.

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