TikTok Adds More Parental Controls to Family Pairing Feature

Parents can decide whether teens can search, who can comment on their videos

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TikTok added more parental controls to the Family Pairing feature it introduced in April.

  • Parents can now decide whether their teens are allowed to search for content, hashtags, sounds or users.
  • They can also determine who can comment on videos posted by their teens: everyone, friends or no one.
  • Parents can choose whether they want their teens’ accounts to be private, meaning that teens decide who can see their content, or public, where anyone can search and view content.
  • And
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