WhatsApp on Wednesday, September 30, rolled out new controls for parents to stay on top of who their children are connecting with on the instant messaging platform.

The new suite of tools are optional and designed to help parents and teens choose the WhatsApp user experience that is right for them, according to the Meta-owned platform. For instance, parents will be able to choose specific privacy settings on WhatsApp Teen Accounts such as who can see the teen user’s profile photo or add them to groups.

Additionally, they can choose to be notified when their teen joins or leaves a group, or when a group their teen is in adds new members. They will further be able to choose how their teen can use Channels, whose Status updates they can see, and who can see theirs.

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In order to change these settings, teens will need their parent’s approval via a PIN also set by the parents. The teen-focused safety protections also extend to Meta AI, with an option for parents to choose between the default 13+ setting and a stricter ‘Limited Content’ option.

The announcement by WhatsApp comes as governments around the world move to ban or restrict children’s access to social media in response to growing concerns over social media addiction and online safety of minors.

“We’re building these controls step by step, based on what families tell us they need. All of these controls are being designed to support open conversations about how to use WhatsApp between parents and teens, while keeping everyone’s personal messages private,” WhatsApp said in a blog post.

The setup process is fairly simple and straightforward. Parents need to input a single PIN to start getting alerts and being in the loop. The new safeguards do not affect WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, which means that the teen’s personal messages and calls remain private and inaccessible to anyone outside of the chat, including WhatsApp.

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In March this year, WhatsApp also introduced new parent-managed accounts for under-13 users.

In order to set up these accounts, the user has to be under 13 years of age or the minimum age required in their country to use the platform. Meanwhile, the parent or guardian has to be older than 18. Parent-managed accounts are available on devices that have the latest version of WhatsApp for iPhone or Android.