Overview
- Parents must create and link a child’s account to their own, completing setup with both devices next to each other.
- Adults can control who contacts the child, approve message requests from unknown numbers, and decide which groups the child may join.
- The new accounts ship with stricter default privacy settings and limit use primarily to messaging and calls.
- All parental controls on the child’s device are protected by a parental PIN that only the guardian can change.
- Meta says the feature was developed with input from families and child-safety specialists, aligning with newer supervision tools on Instagram in select countries.