Parents, tech watchdogs and lawmakers alike have long called for the company to do more to keep teens safe on Instagram, which invites anyone older than 13 to sign up for an account.

Instagram launched a new parent-oriented section of its Well Being site today that’s designed to guide parents through the app and help them talk about it with their teens.

Instagram is an online playground full of hazards -- teens know it, parents know it and the platform's parent company Meta knows it. On Tuesday, Meta announced sweeping safety updates designed to ...

Instagram is rolling out new tools that parents can use to help monitor and limit their kids’ usage of the photo-sharing app, months after disclosures from a Facebook whistleblower raised ...

Every new Instagram user under the age of 18 will automatically be signed up for a Teen Account, which regulates how they view and interact with the app and gives parents specific controls over ...

For now, teens ages 13–17 must initiate a Supervision request by sending an invite to their parent or guardian, who must also have an Instagram account (or create one).

The new Teen Accounts were announced by Instagram head Adam Mosseri in a live interview Tuesday on "Good Morning America.""They're an automatic set of protections for teens that try to proactively ...

In September, Instagram announced it is transitioning accounts belonging to users under 16 years old to teen accounts, which come with a host of new protections and restrictions.

Besides making all new and existing accounts private by default, Instagram said it would now stop teenagers from receiving Instagram notifications between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.