First off, on non-public profiles, to any extent further, Pinterest customers aged 16 and over will be capable of choose into a non-public or public profile.

As defined by Pinterest:

“As soon as non-public, you’ll nonetheless be capable of join together with your family and friends by sending a singular profile hyperlink. Personal profiles should not discoverable by others on the platform and can stay the default and solely choice for teenagers beneath the age of 16.”

Earlier this 12 months, Pinterest introduced that the profiles of all customers aged 16 and beneath can be made non-public by default, and wouldn’t be capable of be switched to ‘public’. It’s now softening that stance for customers 16 and up, although teenagers beneath 16 will nonetheless solely be capable of have a non-public account.

So it’s a slight change in coverage, which primarily offers older teenagers extra leeway in managing their in-app expertise.

Pinterest can also be enacting extra follower controls for teenagers, with all followers set to be faraway from the profiles of customers beneath the age of 16. Teen customers will then be requested to evaluation their follower record, to make sure that they know who, precisely, is ready to see their content material.

That implies that any teenagers who’ve constructed a following within the app can have some work to do to curate their viewers, however it should make sure that teenagers have higher information of who’s capable of have interaction with their Pins.

Pinterest can also be instituting new parameters for messaging and group board invitations for teenagers:

“Teenagers beneath the age of 16 will solely be capable of ship and obtain messages from mutual followers who’ve been accepted via a singular profile hyperlink that expires after 3 days or once they get 5 new followers with the shareable hyperlink, whichever comes first.”

The method will successfully restrict connections to solely the customers that teenagers specify, which can make it tougher for randoms to attach with kids within the app.

Pinterest is updating its security measures for kids after a report launched earlier this 12 months discovered that predators had been utilizing the app to assemble photographs of underage ladies through their Pinterest presence. The NBC report discovered that some customers had been capable of circumvent Pinterest’s current security options to entry younger person profiles, which had enabled them to each view and save content material, and make contact, with kids within the app.

These new measures are designed to supply enhanced security for kids, which is a vital focus for all social apps.

It’s arduous to know the way efficient that will probably be, particularly as customers can nonetheless lie about their age within the sign-up course of. However Pinterest continues to roll out extra instruments to guard kids, which can hopefully allow extra security and management.

You possibly can examine Pinterest’s newest security updates right here.