Tightens the rules for minors Meta as it will begin to block the live streaming to Instagram for the under 16 years.
In particular, the Meta extends her security measures for adolescents who have an account in Instagramexcluding the ability to do live streamingunless they have the permission of parents.
In addition, parental leave will be required to turn off a function that “blurs” images containing naked content in their messages.
At the same time, Setup is expected to allow parents to set daily limits for using the application and prevent children from using Instagram at specific times, while seeing the accounts with which their child exchanges messages.
This is an extension of the system Teen Accountswhich the company first introduced last September and automatically places all users under 16 on a private account.
Today, we’re beginning to expand Teen Accounts to @facebook and @messenger and rolling out additional features on @instagram to help keep teens safe.https://t.co/k3Kdzwp0bD
— Meta Newsroom (@MetaNewsroom) April 8, 2025
At the same time, adolescent accounts in Facebook and Messenger They will be released initially in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, but as with Instagramusers under the age of 16 will need parental leave to change the arrangements.
The accounts in Instagram Users under 18 are 54 million worldwide.