TikTok’s wind-down immediate initially solely performed calming music to remind teenagers to take a break from the app at nighttime. It was additionally solely proven to teenagers underneath 16. But now, the prompts will embrace meditation, too, and might be obtainable to adults who toggle on “Sleep Hours” from the Screen Time settings web page as properly.
While testing its meditation characteristic, TikTok says it discovered 98 p.c of customers underneath 16 stored it on after attempting it for the primary time. Teens can ignore the preliminary 10PM reminder, however the app will show one other full-screen immediate later that’s more durable to dismiss.
TikTok has till June nineteenth to divest its US operations or face a ban, however that hasn’t stopped it from attempting to deal with security considerations. In March, TikTok additionally launched a Time Away software that folks or caregivers can use to stop their little one from accessing the app at sure occasions.
