Concepts such as “Brain Rot”, which refers to the negative impact of excessive consumption of online content, are compromising perception of Tiktok. The Bytedance platform has been fighting this with measures and functionalities aimed at improving user habits. And in this sense he has expanded again the options offered for parental and family control.

Among the novelties, it should be noted “Sleep schedule”. This function aims to help children under 16 to disconnect at night, and for this he will interrupt the navigation of FEED adolescents for you from 10 pm “The function takes the full screen and reproduces relaxing music, to help you relax and be aware of the hour”, Explains the Chinese company in a statement.

According to the material shared by Tiktok, the feed would disappear and then messages would begin to appear for Control breathing; “Relax the mind”, “Inhala”, “Keep your breath”, “Exhale.” From that moment on, the user will have two options; or get out of application and stop using it, or ignore the first reminder and continue. In this case, Tiktok would launch a second more invasive notice to disinhibit its use. “If a teenager decides to spend more time on Tiktok after the first reminder, we show a second notice on full screen, more difficult to ignore”, They point out.

With this function, Tiktok seeks to show his efforts to promote healthier habits among his users. “Tiktok has designed these tools for Reflect the best practices in behavior change theory, providing positive stimuli that can help adolescents develop balanced long -term habits”, As noted in the statement.

However, the platform does not detail whether it is possible to voluntarily deactivate the “Sleep schedule” option, or if it will be applied automatically when you are launched to all adolescent users.
The platform has already tested the function in some countries, and points out that most adolescents decide to keep the reminder. He also advances that in the coming weeks he will prove to Add meditation exercises to the relaxation reminderwith the intention of helping to improve sleep quality.

More control for parents

Together with “Sleep schedule”, Tiktok has also presented other more restrictive functions for its “family synchronization”, the parental control section of the application. Stands out “Programmed disconnection moment”with which parents can establish a schedule so that the child does not connect to the platform and decide when a break is necessary.

The social network will also allow parents to see Who follows your son In Tiktok and who follows him, as well as the accounts that his teenage son has blocked. In the coming months, he will also allow the child to choose who wants to warn, -tower, father, responsible- when he denounces a video that may be violating the rules of the community.

And as for the Age verificationBytedance has extended the agreement already maintained together with Telefónica with GSMA Open Gateway to Europe, as the Spanish company details in another statement. Now, both will collaborate To develop a new API that will integrate technologies from Automatic learning to avoid accessing the social network under 13.