This new TikTok characteristic is designed to assist particular customers shut the app

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TikTok is introducing a brand new meditation characteristic for customers underneath the age of 16 to encourage them to cease utilizing the app after 10pm with calming music.
Moreover, dad and mom can now set “Time Away” on TikTok to limit their teen’s app utilization throughout particular hours.
TikTok has till early April to discover a US-based purchaser or face one other shutdown within the US.

Doomscrolling on TikTok at night time is a behavior that is tough for some to interrupt, and it appears TikTok is now taking motion to handle this subject, significantly amongst teenage customers.

TikTok has announced that it’s rolling out a brand new in-app meditation characteristic designed to encourage customers underneath the age of 16 to “wind down” utilizing the app after 10pm with a full-screen reminder that performs “calming music to assist teenagers loosen up and be aware of the time.” If a teen chooses to disregard the primary wind-down reminder, the TikTok app will current a second one which’s more durable to dismiss.

TikTok states it should take a look at “extra meditation workout routines” as a part of the wind-down reminder within the “coming weeks.” The corporate additionally mentions that the majority teenagers have chosen to maintain the wind-down reminder enabled in international locations the place it has examined this characteristic so far. Hopefully TikTok lets adults allow this characteristic sooner or later to allow them to additionally cease doomscrolling.

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TikTok is a well-liked social media app from the corporate ByteDance. It has gone viral for its short-form movies and influencer tradition, however is going through a possible shut down within the US.

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Dad and mom can now determine what instances their youngster cannot use the app

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Alongside its new meditation characteristic, TikTok is introducing a brand new choice referred to as “Time Away” for fogeys and caregivers utilizing Household Pairing, TikTok’s parental management settings. Time Away will enable dad and mom to find out when their teen can and can’t use the app. For example, a mum or dad can set Time Away for particular hours through the week, equivalent to throughout faculty, so their teen is unable to entry TikTok in any respect. When the teenager makes an attempt to make use of TikTok throughout Time Away, a display screen will seem stating, “Your mum or dad or guardian scheduled time away for you,” blocking entry to the app.

TikTok can be enabling dad and mom to see who their teen follows on TikTok and who follows them. The platform has confronted criticism relating to the potential results its app can have on a teen’s psychological well being, so these new options are an try to handle these considerations. Stephanie Balkam, CEO and founding father of the Household On-line Security Institute (FOSI), counseled TikTok’s newest initiative, stating it’s “a welcome improvement for households trying to each defend their kids from hurt and empower them as accountable digital residents.”

Moreover, TikTok introduced a partnership with Telefónica (a telecom firm) “to grasp how individuals can use age info from their cellphone supplier to verify their age.” In January, TikTok was temporarily shut down within the US. In keeping with the chief order signed by President Trump, TikTok has till early April to safe a US-based purchaser or danger one other shutdown within the US.