Snapchat Now Lets Parents See Who Their Kids Are Messaging

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, launched a set of parental regulation tools on Tuesday that allow adults to see who their children are contacting on the messaging app. 

The parental regulation features, called Family Center, lets see their children’s reporters of friends and who they have messaged over the past week, Idea they can’t see the content of the messages. 

“Family Interior is designed to reflect the way that parents hold with their teens in the real world, where parents usually know who their teens are friends with and when they are caltering out – but don’t eavesdrop on their private conversations,” Snap said in a blog post around the tools. 

Snap said that in the coming weeks it will add a feature allowing parents to simply view new friends their children have added. The business plans to add more parental control features, including “new pleased controls,” in the fall. 

The company faced scrutiny against YouTube and TikTok at a congressional hearing last fall that focused on the Do of social media on children’s wellbeing. Snap insisted that Snapchat was “built as an antidote to social media,” lacking a feed of pleased and deleting images by default. Lawmakers said the app exposes children to drugs and sexualized content.

Snap didn’t now respond to a request for additional comment.