Meta has come up with some new safety features on Instagram to keep teenagers and kids safe on the social media platform. These Instagram safety features enhance monitoring by parents, tighten default privacy options, and provide well-being proactive measures. The update includes fundamental safety issues on how the youngest users utilize the platform.                             

Highlights:

• Expanded parental supervision dashboards provide detailed activity insights.
• Stricter default privacy settings activate automatically for new teen accounts.
• "Nighttime Nudges" prompt teens to close the app late at night.
• Sensitive content filters are more restrictive by default for teens.
• Enhanced tools block unwanted contact from suspicious adult accounts.

The increased parental monitoring capabilities will provide the guardians a better insight into their teenage account preferences, their time consumption, and their engagement with people that follow them. These Instagram safety tools send notification to parents when key safety or privacy settings are changed by a teen. This eases the monitoring of web activity. 

Meta will be placing better default protections. The activation of new teen accounts is opened with the maximum filtering content and privacy restrictions. Importantly, high-tech Instagram security features recognize and deny the possibility of the discovery or engagement between dissimilar teenagers by their precarious adults. This forms an important line of protection. 

Instagram safety features also enhance the well-being of the user. Functions such as the so-called Nighttime Nudges make the adolescents reflect on closing the application late. In case of prolonged scrolling or engagement with sensitive content Instagram will provide suggestions to use such features as Take a Break reminding about mindful usage.