Overview
- Meta announced Tuesday that it will add parental supervision to Threads and make the controls available through its Family Center hub.
- The tools let parents see a teen’s daily time on Threads for the past week, set daily cross‑device time limits, and block access on chosen days or hours.
- Parents can enable a sleep mode that mutes notifications and turns on auto‑replies by default from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., control who can tag their teen, and approve some privacy and sensitive‑content settings.
- Meta said the features start rolling out in the U.S. next week and that the company plans a global rollout by the end of 2026.
- Threads serves roughly 500 million monthly users, the controls build on Meta’s existing automatic teen protections, and the move responds to sustained scrutiny from lawmakers and lawsuits over child safety which could increase demands for platform oversight.