Screenshots show a notifcation announcing the new ‘teenage mode’ (left) and a message telling the user they will next be able to use Douyin in 13 hours. The changes are a step up from existing measures for young users that the company rolled out in 2018, including a feature that allows users to set a limit to the amount of time they can spend on the app every day.ĭouyin’s main competitor in China, Kuaishou, also has a “teenage mode” that enables the same time limits but which is non-mandatory. It appealed to the parents of young users to ensure their children register under their own identities so the app can automatically enable the time restraints.
“If you are a real-name registered user under 14 years old, you will automatically find yourself in ‘teenage mode’ upon opening Douyin,” Bytedance, the company behind the app, wrote on its corporate blog Saturday. Already locked out of online games for much of the week, Chinese teenagers are now further limited in how they can use their free time after popular short-video platform Douyin, the Chinese version of Tiktok, announced that users under the age of 14 will only be able to use the app for a maximum of 40 minutes a day, and only between 6 a.m.
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