WhatsApp expands parental controls to teen accounts with group alerts, Meta AI restrictions
After introducing parent-managed accounts for pre-teens earlier this year, WhatsApp today expanded its parental controls to teen accounts, adding group activity alerts and additional restrictions for Meta AI. Here are the details. more…
WhatsApp has expanded its parental controls to include teen accounts, introducing group activity alerts and Meta AI restrictions. Previously, the company offered features for pre-teens, such as controlling who can contact the account and managing privacy settings. Today, parents can receive notifications when their teen joins or leaves a group, as well as when a group they belong to grows significantly in size.
Parents can also choose how their teen can use Channels, which Status updates they can view, and who can see their own. For Meta AI, parents can select between a standard experience for users aged 13 and up or a stricter "Limited Content" option, which limits the topics a teen can discuss with Meta AI and disables Meta AI features that use Private Processing.
As always, these controls do not allow parents access to their teen's actual messages or calls, which are protected by end-to-end encryption.
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