WhatsApp Adds New Parental Controls for Teen Accounts
Parents can set privacy and notification limits, while teens keep end-to-end encrypted messages and calls private.
- Today, WhatsApp introduced flexible, optional parental controls to help guardians guide teenager experiences without reading over their shoulder.
- Meta faces mounting regulatory pressure to protect minors following an $18 billion fine from 29 states in August to settle child safety lawsuits.
- Guardians can manage settings for Meta AI, Channels, and Status, with all changes requiring a PIN; parents receive notifications when teens join groups of 30, 100, or 250 members.
- The company stressed that personal messages and calls remain private and protected by end-to-end encryption, ensuring controls support open conversations rather than monitoring private chats.
- Social media analyst Matt Navarra called the optional nature an "obvious weakness," arguing Meta reduced reliance on age verification by shifting responsibility to parents and questioning whether families will actually use the tools.
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WhatsApp New Feature: Parents Get More Control Over Teens’ Accounts With Optional Settings | 📲 LatestLY
WhatsApp has introduced a new set of optional parental controls for teenagers, giving parents greater oversight of privacy settings, group activity, Channels, Status and the Meta AI experience without giving them access to their children’s private conversations. 📲 WhatsApp New Feature: Parents Get More Control Over Teens’ Accounts With Optional Settings.
WhatsApp announced on this Wednesday (30) new controls for parents of adolescents, a toolkit that helps to monitor contacts and groups and restrict channel, Status and Meta AI resources. The resources complement the updates made available to parents of under 13 years of age, released in March of this year. The new controls look at people aged 13 to 18 years, and arrive on the ECA Digital treadmill, which requires that user accounts up to 16 year…
The messenger adds functions to define what boys do with states, canals and groups
Optional checks for over 13 accounts. Calls and messages between boys remain private (ANSA)
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