If you are a parent reading this worried about your child’s increased use of social media apps like Instagram. We are here with very good news for you.
Instagram is all set to rule out new tools that can help parents monitor and limit their kids’ uses of the app! The tools offer parents the ability to see how much time their kids spend on Instagram and to set limits and their use as well as visibility into the accounts they follow or are followed by.
Currently available only for parents in the United States, Instagram is set to roll out the same features globally.
New tools also include the ability for parents and guardians to get a notification when their teenager shares that they have reported a person within the app. In the coming months parents will be able to do things such as determine specific hours of the day that the teenager can use the app.
For now, teenagers will have to initiate the supervision process for Instagram on their smartphone or tablet. Adults will be able to request supervision of their teenager’s account via the mobile app or website starting in June, though teenagers will still have to okay the request before it is granted.
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The tools are part of an online “Family Center” that Instagram’s parent company, Meta, is building with the aim of eventually having one place where parents can supervise how their children use Meta’s various apps and technologies.
New parental controls are coming to Meta’s virtual-reality headsets and platform, too. In a post on the Oculus blog, the company said parents will soon be able to lock access to apps that they don’t want their kids to use (a special unlock pattern will be required to open the app). In the next few months, parents will also be able to see via the Oculus app the amount of time their teenager is using VR.
