TIKTOK has introduced a raft of new features which seek to curb the time teens spend on the social media platform. It comes amid concern that teens and children are spending too much time on the ap…
Now, every account belonging to someone below the age of 18 will automatically be set to a 60-minute dailyIf teens decide to turn off this new default limit and spend more than 100minutes on TikTok in a day, the app will send them a push notification prompting them to set a daily screen time limit for themselves.
"In our first month of testing, this approach increased the use of our screen time management tools by 234%," said Cormac Keenan, the head of trust and safety at TikTok.
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