Creating safe, age-appropriate experiences on Instagram
Our tools and resources are here to help parents and teens feel safe and informed. Explore our guides, tips and insights to experience Instagram with confidence and peace of mind.
Introducing Instagram Teen Accounts
A new, protected experience for teens, guided by parents
Soon, teens on Instagram will automatically be placed in Teen Accounts, which have built-in limits on who can contact them and the content they see, and more ways to connect and explore their interests. Teens under 16 will need parental permission to change these settings.
FEATURES AND TOOLS
Get in the know about instagram features
Learn more about features and tools dedicated to helping teens create, explore and connect on Instagram in safe, age-approriate ways.
Appropriate content
We take proactive measures to enhance everyone’s safety. Our team works to review and remove content that violates our
Community Guidelines.
We’ve also created tools like:
We take bullying and harassment seriously.
Comment warnings
are displayed to remind people of our Community Guidelines when there’s an attempt to post potentially negative or offensive comments, informing them that their comment may be removed or hidden if they proceed.
Our
restrict
tool prevents comments from being visible by anyone other than the restricted person
With
blocking,
teens can block an account and any future accounts the blocked person may create
Limits
allow your teen to automatically hide comments and message requests from new followers or people who don’t follow them
Controls allow them to
restrict tags or mentions
to only people they follow or no one at all in a comment, caption or story
With
supervision
enabled, parents and guardians can:
Receive notifications on who your teen is following and who’s following them
See who their teen has blocked
Get notified if your teen reports something and chooses to share that report with you
Teens are encouraged to create boundaries around how much time they spend on Instagram. You and your teen have access to features like:
Sleep mode
to silence all notifications at night and change their activity status
Daily limits and reminders, where teens are notified to leave the app after 60 minutes each day, and teens under 16 will need their parent’s permission to change this notification
With
supervision
enabled, parents and guardians can:
See insights around their teen’s use
Set limits on daily use
Give them agency to make extension requests to spend more time on Instagram
The safety and privacy of the people who use Instagram is a top priority for us. When teens join Instagram, their account will be set to protected and age-appropriate settings. Our automatic defaults for teens include:
Private accounts for teens under 18. Teens under 16 will need their parents permission to change this setting
Message controls
that allow teens to limit who can send them DMs and add them to group chats, giving them the choice to only receive messages from people who follow them
DM restrictions mean only people they follow or people they’re already connected to can message them or add them to group chats
With
supervision
enabled, parents and guardians can:
See account privacy settings, such as their account privacy, who your teen is able to message with, and who can add them to group chats
Supervision adds tools and insights to the automatic protections in Teen Accounts, giving parents of teens 13–17 more oversight and a way to collaborate on safety settings.