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TikTok Sets A One Hour Time Limit For Teens Under 18?!

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The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

TikTok is setting up new regulations for underage users including TIME limits...what do you think, cool or creepy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Bird Show.

0:01.6

What's trending now?

0:02.8

Kristen knows it's the Bird Show's entertainment bus.

0:07.3

TikTok has announced some new features that

0:09.2

are going to make parents very happy teens maybe not so much.

0:12.8

So these new features intend to reduce screen time

0:15.9

and improve the well-being of TikTok's younger users.

0:19.2

So in the coming weeks, there's going

0:21.2

to be a daily screen time limit of 60 minutes

0:25.0

that will automatically be applied to every TikTok user

0:27.8

under 18 years old.

0:29.9

Teens that hit this limit will be as to enter a pass code

0:33.4

to continue watching.

0:35.2

Now, they can disable the feature entirely,

0:37.3

but if they do so and spend more than 100 minutes

0:40.7

on TikTok a day, they'll be prompted to set a new limit.

0:45.4

Here is Sarah Morrison, a reporter for Vox, explaining how it works.

0:49.1

If you are under 18 after you've been using TikTok for an hour,

0:53.5

you get a little prompt that says,

0:55.2

you've been using TikTok for an hour.

0:57.0

And then if you're under 13, your parents have to come

1:00.4

and enter a code that lets you watch for like 30 minutes more

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