With the setting, the social medium wants to respond to the criticism that it is too addictive for young people. By entering a PIN code, the young users have to actively decide whether they want to continue watching or not. TikTok also sends weekly digests to teens showing their total screen time. The app also advises teens to set a 100-minute timer if 60 minutes isn’t enough. TikTok is also refining ways for parents to limit their kids’ screen time via its “Family Pairing” feature. Parents can also turn off the app’s push notifications for their kids at specific times and get a dashboard showing how many times they’ve been viewed. In China, the home country of TikTok, the government has been taking measures to combat addiction among young people for some time. In the Chinese version Douyin, children under the age of 14 are already allowed to watch a maximum of 40 minutes a day, but only between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. In addition to the worldwide version, there is now also a light version. As with other Internet platforms, the measures are quite easy to circumvent. Teenagers can turn off the features or lie about their age. The minimum age for TikTok is 13 years.