Instagram Teen Accounts come with built-in protections that limit who can contact them and the content that they see. This experience is designed to better support parents, providing more protection for teens and peace of mind for parents.
We’ll automatically place teens into Teen Accounts, and teens under 16 will need a parent’s permission to change any of these settings to be less strict. If you are a parent and want to further help your teen manage their new safety settings, work with them to set up supervision.
Default protective settings include:
- Content filtering: Instagram Teen Accounts are inspired by 13+ plus content ratings, and teens under 18 will need their parent’s permission to change this setting to be less strict. There’s also a Limited Content option for parents who prefer extra controls.
- Private accounts: Requires teens to accept new followers, and people who don’t follow them can’t see their content or interact with them.
- Messaging restrictions: Teen Accounts default to our strictest messaging settings, so teens can only be messaged by people they follow or are already connected to.
- Limited interactions: Teens can only be tagged or mentioned by people they follow. We’ll also automatically turn on the most restrictive version of our anti-bullying feature, Hidden words, so that offensive words and phrases will be filtered out of teens’ comments and direct message requests.
- Time limit reminders: Teens will get notifications telling them to leave the app after 60 minutes each day.
- Sleep mode enabled: Sleep mode will be turned on between 22:00 and 07:00, which will mute notifications overnight and send auto-replies to direct messages.
- Restrictions on going live: Teens will be automatically restricted from using the Instagram Live feature.
- Limits on unwanted images in DMs: Teens will be automatically placed into our nudity protection feature, which blurs suspected nude images in DMs and warns teens of the risks in sending them.
