TikTok parental controls

Step 1 – On your device, go to your profile and then tap the 3 horizontal lines located in the top right-hand corner. Tap Settings and privacy.

Step 2 – Scroll down and tap Family Pairing. Tap Continue and then choose your role as a parent to get access to a QR code or to send a link to your teen.

Step 3 – Your teen will need to open Family Pairing on their device to scan the QR code, or they can follow the link you sent to them.

They can review what you’ll be able to do and then should select Link accounts and confirm their choice before seeing the settings you can manage.

Step 4 – Access Family Pairing on your device and select your child to start customising settings. You can also add another child here and manage the notifications you receive.

Step 1 – Go to your child’s account through Family Pairing. Select Screen time > Daily screen time.

Step 2 – On the information screen, tap Set screen time limit.

Set limits that are the same or different each day. You might allow your teen more time at the weekends, so custom limits per day might work better for you. The shortest time limit you can set is 40 minutes. For shorter time limits, use external parental controls apps.

Tap Set screen time limit again to save the limits you set.

From the Screen time setting within Family Pairing, tap Schedule time away and make sure the toggle is blue.

Customise the times for each day that you don’t want your child to access TikTok, such as during the school day or during bed time. Teens can set sleep restrictions on their account as well.

If your teen wants to use TikTok during Time away, they will need to request it. You will need to approve it.

Step 1 – Go to their profile, then tap the 3 horizontal lines located in the top right-hand corner. Tap on Settings and privacy.

Step 2 – Scroll down to Screen time. Customise Daily screen time, screen time breaks, Sleep reminders and Time away here.

If you use Family Pairing, your teen can only add Screen time breaks and Sleep reminders.

Step 1 – From the Screen time menu under Settings and privacy, tap Screen time breaks > Schedule break.

Step 2 – Choose from preset times or create a custom break time.

If your child has a Daily screen time limit, encourage them to think about breaks that fit best within that limit. For example, if they have a 40 minute limit, 10 minute break reminders would make more sense than 30 minute break reminders.

Step 1 – Guide them to their Settings and privacy menu > Screen time > Sleep reminders (or Sleep hours).

Step 2 – Tap Set up and choose the Start time. For teens, the end time will automatically be 8 hours later. The end time cannot be edited. Tap Done.

Adults can set this feature up for themselves as well but will see an end time that is 7 hours later instead of 8.

Go to your child’s account through Family Pairing. Select Push notification schedule, then turn the toggle blue and set a schedule for push notifications to stay off.

Push notifications are automatically off for teens between 9PM and 8AM. However, you can add an additional schedule such as during the school day.

Step 1 – Access the Settings and privacy menu then tap Notifications. Here, you can turn off push notifications or add schedules like with Family Pairing.

To turn off individual notifications, tap the toggle to turn it grey next to the relevant notification. Some notifications will have further and, which you can access by tapping the arrow where there isn’t a toggle.

Step 2 – Tap In-app notifications to customise what alerts your teen receives while using TikTok. Tap the toggle next to each notification you want to turn off (grey).

We recommend limiting these notifications to comments and similar direct contact to help them manage their screen time.

From your child’s account within Family Pairing, tap Content preferences. You can choose to add keywords to the filter, turn on the STEM feed or turn on Restricted Mode.

Go to Settings and privacy > Content preferences. Customise the relevant settings.

Step 1 – Access your child’s account through Family Pairing and tap Privacy and safety. Next to Private account, tap the toggle to turn it blue.

Step 2 – Next to Suggest your teen’s account to others, tap the toggle to turn it grey. This will keep their profile truly private.

Access the Settings and privacy menu. Go to Privacy, then tap the toggle until it turns blue.

Choose which additional settings under Discoverability to customise to enhance privacy.

From your child’s account on Family Pairing, select Privacy and safety. Under Safety, go into each setting and change it to Friends or No one where relevant.

This is also where you can review the settings you teen has set on their account.

Within Settings and privacy, tap Privacy and then select each setting you want to customise.

Go to the video (accessible on your profile) and tap the 3 dots in the bottom right. Scroll right until you see Privacy settings. Tap the icon to change the video’s Privacy settings.

When posting a video, select the gear icon in the top right corner. Here, you can decide who can view the post, whether comments are allowed and whether viewers can reuse this content.

You can also customise this after tapping Next.

Go to the video you wish to delete and tap the 3 dots in the bottom right. Scroll all the way to the right and tap Delete and confirm.

Go to the video you wish to report and tap the share arrow. Tap Report and select a reason then follow the prompts until you can tap Submit.

Or, tap Not interested to tell the algorithm you don’t want to see the content.

See how to further customise content here.

Go to the profile of the user you want to report. Tap the share icon in the top right corner. Tap Report or Block and follow the relevant prompts.

From your Settings and privacy menu, tap Account > Deactivate or delete account.

To delete the account, select Delete account permanently and follow the prompts that come up on screen.

You can also deactivate the account instead if you plan to come back.