Instagram finally rolls out parental controls in the United States

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The long-awaited feature has been promised for some time and has now started its launch. Back in December, Instagram promised parents, guardians, caregivers and other people watching over the safety of their kids that they would have parental controls. That feature is now finally launching for users in the United States. That said, the Meta-owned platform has also said that this is only the “first set” of features for parents. Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, has said that the parental controls remain only the “first set” of supervision tools that…

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Instagram Daily Time Limit option minimum quietly triples

Daily Time Limit - Instagram

The Meta photo-sharing social platform just made it impossible to restrict usage to under 30 minutes. At a time when Meta has been reporting slowing growth on its platforms, it appears to have quietly tripled the Instagram minimum Daily Time Limit user-selected usage restrictions. Though the minimum amount of time that used to be available was 10 minutes, it is now 30 minutes. As a result, the Daily Time Limit won’t issue a reminder to Instagram users about their usage until at least a half hour has passed. In fact,…

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