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<p><a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/mariah-carey-kim-kardashian-daughters-tiktok-upload/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> is making some changes to help users under the age of 18 &#8220;manage their time&#8221; on the short-form video app.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">TikTok Wants To Help Teens Manage Their Screen Time</h3>
<p>Cormac Keenan, TikTok&#8217;s Head of Trust and Safety, shared the update via the company&#8217;s official <a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-gb/tiktok-teen-screen-time-family-pairing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsroom</a>. Keenan shared that TikTok believes &#8220;digital experiences should bring joy and play a positive role in how people express themselves.&#8221; With that in mind, TikTok is striving to improve its &#8220;screen time tool with more custom options.&#8221; This will include &#8220;new default settings for teen accounts, and expanding Family Pairing with more parental controls.&#8221;</p>
<p>The company&#8217;s first initiative is to &#8220;help teens manage their time on TikTok.&#8221; In order to do this, every account belonging to a user under 18 will automatically be set to a &#8220;60-minute daily screen time limit.&#8221;If a user reaches the 60-minute time limit, they will be prompted to &#8220;enter a passcode in order to continue watching.&#8221;</p>
<p>Keenan further explains that this action requires teenagers to &#8220;make an active decision to extend&#8221; their time on the app. Additionally, the company believes the initiative will force users to be more intentional with the time they do spend on the app.</p>
<p>The new initiative will also send &#8220;every teen account a weekly inbox notification with a recap of their screen time.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lastly, the change is expected to take place in the next few weeks.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">TikTok Would Like To Foster Family Conversations Around Digital Wellness</h3>
<p>TikTok is also adding three new features to <a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-introduces-family-pairing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Family Pairing</a>, a feature they unveiled in 2020, with the hope to &#8220;empower families.&#8221; The updates will include custom daily time limits, which can be set by caregivers and will allow families the ability to &#8220;match screen time to school schedules, holiday breaks, or family travel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Secondly, the update will provide caregivers with insight as to how many times their child opened the TikTok app. As well as a breakdown of the total time that was spent on the app during both the day and night.</p>
<p>Lastly, the third update will feature the option for parents to &#8220;set a schedule to mute notifications for their teen.&#8221; Currently, users between the ages of 13 and 15 do not receive push notifications after 9 p.m. And users between the ages of 16 and 17 stop receiving push notifications after 10 p.m.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">TikTok&#8217;s Concern For &#8220;Wellbeing In The Digital World&#8221;</h3>
<p>Before closing, Keenan continues to explain what the company hopes will come from these updates.</p>
<blockquote><p>We hope these features will continue to help families establish an ongoing dialogue about safety and well-being in our digital world.</p></blockquote>
<p>As well as more future adjustments to the app, which are currently underway.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;everyone will soon be able to set their own customized screen time limits for each day of the week and set a schedule to mute notifications. In addition, we&#8217;re rolling out a sleep reminder to help people more easily plan when they want to be offline at night. People can set a time, and when it&#8217;s reached, a pop-up will remind them it&#8217;s time to log off.</p></blockquote>
<p>Roommates, are you happy to hear about these updates?</p>
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