The TikTok app, much loved by young people, tightens on safety and introduces two new features: the Family Filter and Time Management in the Feed. The first feature "helps parents and generally adults responsible for a minor to ensure the safety of their children when they use TikTok," explains a company note.
In practice, it associates an adult's TikTok account with that of the minor for whom it is responsible, so the adult can exercise greater control through time management (allows you to set a maximum time that the minor can spend each day on the 'app); direct messages (allows you to limit who can send messages to the associated account or to disable them entirely); limited mode (excludes content that may not be appropriate for all viewers).
In conjunction with the release of the family filter, TikTok also introduces a function "to improve the digital well-being of users and maintain a balanced relationship with the app and online services".
After the introduction in April 2019 of the Time Management function, which allows you to set a daily limit of use of TikTok, now comes the 'Time Management in Feed' function, "a system of proactive notifications in the app". Through video pills created in collaboration with some of the most followed and loved creators, users will be reminded, directly during the use of the videos contained on TikTok, to keep an eye on the time they spend online and to take a break from the screen.
The Family Filter and Time Management functions in the Feed are already available in the UK and will be introduced for Italian users in the coming weeks.