Parents, now you can better protect your teens on Snapchat, here’s how

Good news for parents: you’ll soon be able to have more control over what your kids watch on Snapchat.

While work stoppage traffic is thriving on Snapchat, the platform is taking the opportunity to get up to speed on parental controls.

When Snapchat finally thinks of children (and parents)

Last October, Snapchat officially launched its parental control system. Called “Family Center”, it provides parents with an effective way to protect the privacy of their teenagers (the platform being prohibited for children under 13). It also allows you to keep an eye on their activities and to personalize their use of the application. For its part, Meta had also taken the opportunity to deploy new parental control options for Instagram.

If Snapchat was a little late before strengthening the digital well-being of the youngest on its platform, it now seems to be on the right track. Indeed, the application will very soon welcome new parental control options.

Content Control: the option to avoid sensitive and suggestive content

On social networks, it is unfortunately not uncommon to come across inappropriate content. This is why Snapchat has decided to integrate a new option called “Content Control” into its application. As its name suggests, it offers parents new tools allowing them to ” limit the type of content their teens can watch on Snapchat “. Understand by this that the content of the Stories and Spotlight sections that will be identified as sensitive and suggestive (sexual, violent content, etc.) will then be systematically blocked.

To enable the feature, simply head to Family Center’s settings and select the “Restrict sensitive content” option. However, as the site rightly reports TechCrunch, obviously not all parents will be aware of the feature. Therefore, many of them could easily be missed.

Source : TechCrunch