TikTok has introduced a range of new trust and safety features aimed at enhancing the experience for teens, families, creators, and the broader community while reinforcing safety, privacy, and security.
Features for Families
TikTok offers over 50 features tailored for teen accounts to help them safely express creativity and connect with friends. The Family Pairing feature allows parents to customize their teen's account settings. New updates to Family Pairing include:
- Automatic notifications to parents when teens upload videos, stories, or photos visible to others, facilitating open conversations without hindering teen independence.
- Greater parental insight into teens' privacy settings, such as content download permissions and visibility of following lists, as well as topics chosen to shape their feed.
Supporting Community Well-being
TikTok emphasizes digital experiences that bring joy and enrichment. Existing tools like Screen Time Management and Sleep Hours help users create healthy digital routines. Building on expert advice, TikTok launched Well-being Missions, a series of short, engaging tasks designed to foster balanced digital habits. Completing missions earns badges that encourage mindful behavior. Additionally, TikTok is developing a new in-app digital well-being experience that consolidates supportive tools and activities in an accessible format.
Empowering Creators with New Tools
Creators are central to TikTok’s community, and their safety and empowerment are priorities. New features include:
- Creator Care Mode to filter offensive and unwanted comments.
- A mute feature for TikTok LIVE to bulk mute words, phrases, and emojis.
- Content Check Lite to pre-assess if content might be ineligible for the For You feed.
- Creator Inbox, a professional inbox to manage messages efficiently.
- Creator Chat Room to enable direct interaction with eligible followers.
Maintaining Platform Integrity
TikTok is piloting Footnotes, a feature that adds context to content by allowing users to write and rate footnotes on videos. This collective knowledge approach helps provide additional information and improve content transparency. U.S. users in the pilot can contribute and rate footnotes, with helpful ones becoming visible to the community.
These updates reflect TikTok’s ongoing commitment to fostering a safe, creative, and supportive environment for all users.
