TikTok To Limit Visibility Of Teens’ Videos

Social media service TikTok has announced that it is limiting the visibility of teens’ videos with the most restrictions applying to the youngest users in order to clean up its feeds.

TikTok stated that teens aged 13 to 15 will have to decide who can see a video the first time they post and they will be set to private by default. The default option will be applied to every video they post beyond that, and they won't have access to Duet or Stitch features.

For older teens 16- and 17-year-olds joining the service for the first time, TikTok will turn off Direct Messages by default and ask existing users to review their settings if they haven't tried DMs before. . The company will also double-check before those older teens enable downloads for their videos.

TikTok said it will continue to promote healthy usage habits by turning off notifications for teens under 16 starting at 9 PM local time, while 16- and 17-year-olds will receive their alerts until 10 PM. . This will theoretically help teens wind down, not to mention discourage late-night bullying.

The social media giant also stressed that it will continue to come up with more privacy and safety efforts and that there would be more to come in the months ahead.