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| Tik Tok improves parents' ability to remotely control their children's accounts |
With Short Video Service (TikTok), a new job was introduced today that allows parents to remotely restrict their children's accounts to improve parental controls.
With this new feature (family messaging), parents can link their child’s account to their account because they can disable direct messaging, enable restricted content mode, and set the maximum number of views.
It should be noted that this step was completed in relation to the improvements previously proposed by Tik Tok, especially when the company imposed 570 on the US Federal Trade Commission in February 2019 due to alleged violations of the law. Child protection policy. After a fine of $ 10,000, children under the age of 13 are allowed to open accounts without parental consent.
Since then, Tik Tok has made changes to comply with legal requirements and added features like screen deadlines to give users and parents more control over the app, which is very popular among teenagers. The service introduced these jobs in Europe earlier this year under the name "Home Safety Mode".
Today’s update makes it easy to set these limits. After connecting the two accounts, parents can control the child's settings over the phone. Previously, they had to set these restrictions in applications on children's devices. This update also contains a password mapping functionality in which some settings can be deactivated without permission.
Parents should always ask their children to agree to link their accounts under the new system. To do this, parents must scan the QR code in the child's digital health area. Children can disable this feature at any time, but there are some drawbacks. In this case, for example, parents are informed.
In addition to the new features, Tik Tok has also blocked direct messages for all users under the age of 16.