Instagram announced today that it is increasing its range of tools for managing time through the debut of a new feature known as “Quiet Mode.” The feature is designed to ease users’ anxieties about taking time away from the app by shutting down notifications that come in, auto-responding to DMs and changing you status as “In Silent Mode’ to inform your friends that you’re not in the app currently. The company also said it’ll encourage teens to turn on the feature when they’re using the app in the late at night.
This update is just one of the many updates that will be released this morning, and includes enhanced parental control tools as well as other tools for managing suggestions.
The new features are being introduced in the context of how Instagram strives to make its application less of an object of scrutiny by legislators and regulators who are concerned about social media’s potential risks particularly for teenagers. So far, Instagram has added several teens-safety features, such as ones that protect teens’ privacy and limit unwelcome adult contacts, restrict the targeting of ads, limit access for teens to adult content, and other features to assist parents in monitoring and control their children’s Instagram usage through parental controls.
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Quiet Mode adds other tools for managing screen time Instagram currently offers, such as daily time-spent controls that allow users to keep track of their usage and notify themselves of their usage for them to configure”take breaks” reminders after apps run over the specified time, and a variety of options to pause, snooze and unfollow groups, pages as well as individuals to in reducing the use of inappropriate or otherwise undesirable content.
With the brand new Quiet Mode feature, however it’s not only to create an app that encourages users to stop. Instead, it concentrates on the actual effects of stepping away from an app you use regularly — and where other users are expecting you to be present.
