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TikTok Launches Time and Well‑Being Hub With Journaling, Sleep Sounds and Badge Missions

The rollout presents a safety push under rising regulatory scrutiny of TikTok’s effects on young users.

Overview

  • The app’s former screen‑time page is replaced by a Time and Well‑Being space that adds an affirmation journal, a soothing sound generator and breathing exercises.
  • The journal offers more than 120 affirmation cards that can be downloaded or shared, while the sound tool plays options like rain, ocean waves and white noise on a timer.
  • Task‑based well‑being missions award badges for habits such as staying off TikTok at night, setting and keeping daily screen‑time limits, checking weekly reports and inviting others.
  • TikTok says it will surface links to these tools when users are active late or hit daily limits, and for teens it will auto‑suggest meditation after 10 p.m. with persistent prompts if dismissed.
  • Early testing cited by the company shows higher return visits to the new hub than to the previous menu, with the affirmation journal emerging as the most used feature.