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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, March 1 (Xinhua)-- TikTok said on Wednesday that it will set default screen time limits for teenagers and introduce new features to give parents more control over their children's use of the social media.

If the source PixabayTikTok users are under 18 years old, their screen time limit will be automatically set to 60 minutes. This default screen time will apply to new registrations and existing accounts, and teenagers can also turn this setting off, but according to CTOnews.com, if they turn off the limit and spend more than 100 minutes a day on the app, TikTok will remind them to set a daily screen time limit.

TikTok said that in deciding how long the time limit should be, they consulted experts from current academic research and the Digital Health Lab at Children's Hospital in Boston.

TikTok has also introduced more parental control features, including letting parents filter out videos that contain words or topic tags (hashtags) that they don't want teenagers to see. They can also mute TikTok notifications for a certain period of time and set custom screen time limits for teenagers. All users on TikTok can also set a custom screen time limit and set the time for notification to be muted. Previously, TikTok users could only set the daily screen time limit to 40, 60, 90, or 120 minutes.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (American Academy of Pediatrics) says children spend an average of seven hours a day on entertainment media, including social media apps.

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