Snapchat introduces parental controls

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August 9, 2022

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In brief: Snapchat has introduced its first set of parental controls after promising last October it was developing family safety features.

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Ella Sagar Ella Sagar is a reporter for The Media Leader and leads our audio and out-of-home coverage. She joined in September 2021 and has a gold standard NCTJ. She previously wrote for the South West Londoner, Ealing Times, and The Hillingdon Times. At the University of Leeds, she received a First Class Honours Degree in French and Spanish with distinction in speaking and during her time there regularly presented radio shows on Leeds Student Radio, wrote for the student paper The Gryphon and was editor of Her Campus Leeds.

Snapchat has introduced its first set of parental controls after promising last October it was developing family safety features.

Parents or guardians will need to install Snapchat on their own device to use the new feature called Family Center, which links their account to their teens’ account through an opt-in invite process.

When this is linked, parents and guardians can see which accounts their children are having conversations with over the past seven days, rather than the content, as well as their friend list.

They can also report potential abuse to Snap’s Trust & Safety team to review.