Meta (formerly Facebook) launched a new feature on Thursday called “Nighttime Nudges,” which aims to remind teens when they spend more than 10 minutes on Instagram late at night.

The new feature will remind teens that it’s late and encourage them to close the app.

“Sleep is important, especially for young people, so we’re launching new night-time nudges that will appear when teens are late at night in places like Reels or Direct Messages on Instagram at 10 PM,” Meta said in a blogpost. Will spend more than a minute.”

“They will remind teens that it is late and encourage them to close the app,” it says.

Meanwhile, Meta has announced that it will begin hiding more types of age-inappropriate content for teens on Instagram and Facebook, in line with expert guidance.

The company said they are automatically putting teens into the most restrictive content control settings on both platforms.

“We already apply this setting to new teens when they join Instagram and Facebook and are now expanding it to teens who are already using these apps,” Meta said.

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