Overview

• The tools are now available worldwide, letting parents link to teen accounts via an invitation and manage settings from their own profiles.
• Linked teen profiles receive stronger default protections that restrict graphic content, viral challenges, sexual or violent role‑play and extreme beauty ideals, and adolescents cannot change these settings.
• Parents can set quiet hours, disable voice mode, turn off memory, block image generation and exclude a teen’s chats from model training.
• OpenAI’s notification process flags possible self‑harm signals for human review, with urgent outreach to parents by email, text and phone using only information needed for safety.
• Emergency‑service routing and automated age prediction are still in development, and OpenAI says it worked with groups such as Common Sense Media while also publishing a new parent resources page.