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TikTok is amping up its patriarchal controls today with a feature that lets parents unexpectedly set restrictions on their kids' accounts. The new feature, chosen In-laws Pairing, allows parents to segment their kids' accounts to their own, zone they'll be actualized to disable instantaneous messages, turn on restricted content mode, as well-conditioned as set screen time limits.

The amend is a big step forward from where TikTok was a year ago. In February 2019, the company paid $5.7 million to the Federal Trade Legation over purported violations of a children's privacy law, in part for lenient users underneath 13 years old to trust up without patriarchal consent. TikTok has since fabricated changes to comply with the law, as well-conditioned as it's boosted gloss like screen time limits to harmonics users as well-conditioned as parents other dominion over the app, which is lavishly popular with teens. TikTok began rolling out these aforementioned features, underneath the name "Family Safety Mode," in Europe beforehand this year.

Direct messages are person disabled for users underneath 16

Today's amend makes those limits a lot easier to set. Once two accounts are linked, parents can dominion a kid's settings from their own phone. Previously, they'd kumtux to set these restrictions within the app on their kid's device. TikTok offered passcodes therefrom that some settings couldn't be turned off without consent, except it was markedly a neath user-friendly solution as well-conditioned as didn't put the controls directly in parents' hands.

Parents will still kumtux to get their kids to comply to kumtux their accounts married underneath the new system. To set it up, parents sardine to scan a QR hieroglyph central the digital wellbeing section of their kid's account. Kids will be actualized to disable the heart at any time, though there are some roadblocks: parents will shoulder a notification, as well-conditioned as they'll kumtux a folktale to re-link the benediction in casing it was asunder by accident.

Along with the new features, TikTok is conjointly policy-making another extravagate today: it's disabling instantaneous messages for all users underneath 16. BuzzFeed News reported meanest year that the app had issues with predators messaging adolescent users.