TikTok Parental Controls offer the ability to ensure parents and guardians can help and keep their children entertained in a safer app environment with balanced settings. With family pairing, screen time limits, privacy settings, and restricted content modes, TikTok offers safety measures that parents can use to shield their children from inappropriate content and addiction to the app.

Saferloop gives you more power to safeguard your children’s online safety. Here’s the guide for managing parental controls on TikTok through Saferloop.

How to Manage TikTok Parental Controls Parental Controls Efficiently with Saferloop

Starting with TikTok’s safety features is never a bad idea, and mixing them with Saferloop does all the more for a parent. Saferloop allows one to monitor activities, receive alerts, and manage settings across apps, including TikTok. Here’s how you can use and set up TikTok parental control and extra features provided by Saferloop.

1 Setting Up Family Pairing on TikTok

Family Pairing is a TikTok parental control feature that links the parent’s TikTok account with the one belonging to their child. Linked accounts can be monitored, and settings can be changed to allow limitations on access, screen time, and content visibility.

Steps to set up Family Pairing:

• Open your TikTok app, go to your profile, and tap the three lines on the upper-right, then tap Settings and Privacy.
• Scroll to “Family Pairing”, click Continue, and select Parent; a QR code will be displayed.
• Your child then goes to the same Family Pairing option on their device, selects Teen, and either scans the QR code or taps the shared links.
• Now linked, you can proceed to administer settings such as screen time, content filters, and privacy controls.

2 Handling Screen Time

TikTok parental control tools help you to block daily screen usage and program periods of inactivity from the app.

To set daily limits through Family Pairing on your child’s Account

• Go to Screen Time, then tap Daily Screen Time
• Choose limits per day
• Save your settings
• Do it without Family Pairing:
• From your teen’s Settings and Privacy>Screen Time.
• Set daily limits, sleep reminders or breaks
• Saferloop alerts you if these limits are exceeded.

3 Turn on Restricted Mode

• This mode restricts content that could be inappropriate.
• To enable via Family Pairing:
• Tap Content Preferences > Restricted Mode
• Toggle it on
• This mode will browse through positive feeds for your teens.

4 Set Sleep Reminders

• Sleep reminders promote changes in healthier sleeping habits.
• Instructions
• Tap Settings and Privacy> Screen Time> Sleep Reminders
• Set a start time (end time is auto-set to 8 hours later for teens)
• Teens under 16 will also see the Wind Down screen after 10 PM.

5 Manage Notifications

• Too many notifications may lead to their overuse.
• Via Family Pairing:
• Tap Push Notification Schedule
• Set off-hours, e.g., 9 PM to 8 AM
• Teens can also change which notifications they want to receive, but their settings take precedence.

6 Content Preference

• The filter includes:
• Keyword Filters: Block a relevant term
• STEM Feed: Promote educational content
• Restricted Mode: Enforce clean content
• These can be found in Family Pairing under Content Preferences.
• Teens can also refresh their For You feed and hide unwanted content.

7 Activate Account Privacy

• For teens aged 13 to 15, TikTok automatically sets accounts to private, but can be changed to public.
• Activate privacy using Family Pairing as follows:
• Go to Privacy and Safety
• Toggle Private account on
• Turn off Suggest to your teen to others
• This completely stops any viewing or messaging by strangers.

8. Manage Contact Settings

• TikTok also provides an option to select who can interact with your child.
• In Family Pairing:
• Tap Privacy and safety > Safety settings
• Set all options for interactions to Friends or No one
• Teens can also block mentions, comments, or content reuse.

9 Report or Block

• If a kid has been subjected to nasty content:
• On a video, tap on the Share icon> Report or Not Interested.
• For users, go to their profiles>Share>Report or Block.
• This keeps their space clean.

10 Delete TikTok Account

• If you want to completely take down an account:
• Settings and Privacy>Account
• Deactivate > Delete permanently
• You can also deactivate for a short break.

Saferloop Tip:

With Saferloop, you can monitor all TikTok settings, get alerts on usage, and manage many apps from a single dashboard, thereby making parenting easier in this digital era.

Conclusion

To conclude, family controls on TikTok, especially Family Pairing, enable parents to regulate their children’s screen time, privacy settings, and content access. When used alongside Saferloop’s tools, these features form a safer online environment for children and provide them with ample time for using the app in a balanced manner, and away from harmful or addictive content.