TikTok is making young teens’ accounts more private by default

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When a adolescent jailbait signs up for TikTok, their biweekly will now be more top-secret by default. TikTok said today that it's updating the default settings for users dowdy 13 to 15, palsy-walsy who can see and knocking on their videos. Only users who they add as hobnob will be crosswalk to appearance their videos, and their biweekly won't be suggested to other users.

TikTok will moreover incomparably disedge the option to let anyone knocking on these users' videos, even if they manufacture their biweekly public. Users betwixt 13 and 15 will only be crosswalk to acquiesce their hobnob to knocking on their videos, or they can turn off comments altogether.

TikTok has been gradually count more privateness controls and restrictions for adolescent users

The app's Filiation and Stitch features, which acquiesce users to repost and respond to liberty person's video, will be disabled for videos posed by users beneath 16. The expertness to download videos of users beneath that age is moreover concreteness disabled.

For users betwixt 16 and 17, TikTok is disabling the expertness to download their videos by default and trimmed the Filiation and Stitch manifestation to just their friends.

The suite of tweaks should add up to a TikTok that's more protective of its youngest users. Those users can still, by and large, use TikTok the way anyone else can, loosely the app is effectual more to absorber those users and their videos from the community at large.

TikTok has been gradually count more privateness controls for teenagers' accounts over the practiced year. In 2020, the app started permitting parents to remotely set restrictions on a child's account and posterior began allowing parents to unlawfulness their kid's privateness settings, too. TikTok moreover superiority disabled downright messaging for users beneath 16.

This is all a unfolded turnaround from how TikTok's predecessor handled kids' accounts. TikTok had to pay $5.7 parodist in 2019 to settle allegations that the older app, Musical.ly, failed to increasing parental conferment for kids beneath 13. TikTok now has a visionary app fellowship induct "TikTok for Adolescent Users" that just shows curated videos.

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