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

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TikTok is introducing a brand new meditation characteristic for customers below the age of 16 to encourage them to cease utilizing the app after 10pm with calming music.
Moreover, mother and father can now set “Time Away” on TikTok to limit their teen’s app utilization throughout particular hours.
TikTok has till early April to discover a US-based purchaser or face one other shutdown within the US.

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

TikTok has announced that it’s rolling out a brand new in-app meditation characteristic designed to encourage customers below 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 aware 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 workout routines” as a part of the wind-down reminder within the “coming weeks.” The corporate additionally mentions that the majority teenagers have chosen to maintain the wind-down reminder enabled in nations the place it has examined this characteristic up to now. Hopefully TikTok lets adults allow this characteristic sooner or later to allow them to additionally cease doomscrolling.

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TikTok is a well-liked social media app from the corporate ByteDance. It has gone viral for its short-form movies and influencer tradition, however is going through a possible shut down within the US.

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TikTok is including extra parental controls

Mother and father can now resolve what occasions their youngster cannot use the app

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Alongside its new meditation characteristic, TikTok is introducing a brand new possibility known as “Time Away” for folks and caregivers utilizing Household Pairing, TikTok’s parental management settings. Time Away will enable mother and father to find out when their teen can and can’t use the app. As an illustration, a guardian can set Time Away for particular hours throughout the week, similar 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 guardian or guardian scheduled time away for you,” blocking entry to the app.

TikTok can be enabling mother and father 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 considerations. Stephanie Balkam, CEO and founding father of the Household On-line Security Institute (FOSI), counseled TikTok’s newest initiative, stating it’s “a welcome growth for households trying to each shield their youngsters from hurt and empower them as accountable digital residents.”

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