Tiktok recently began experimenting with in-app meditation feature, which encourages teenagers to “fall down”. Now, the company is offering official features to all users and turning it on by default for all teenagers under the age of 18.
With that, the teenager will play a full screen “Guided Meditation Practice” when trying to scroll after 10 pm. The prompt is obviously something you can choose to ignore, but those teenagers who do so will encounter a second “hard to eliminate” prompt. Adult users of Tiktok will also be able to access in-app meditation through the app’s screen time controls (by default, adults will not be featured by default).
The company noted that its initial “sleep time” test was successful, with 98% of teenagers choosing to maintain a meditation environment late at night. Tiktok’s previous attempts to limit screen time have been different. As part of the lawsuit against the company, the documents show that even if the screen time is set to the 60-minute limit, teenagers spend about 107 minutes a day in the app.
Since then, Tiktok has strengthened some of its security features, including its parental controls, in an increasing number of reviews of the company. President Donald Trump signed a deadline to ban the app last month, and Tiktok’s fate in the United States remains at a hindrance. The terms of the final agreement will keep the agreement permanently in the country, although there are many.
