First off, on personal profiles, any 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 personal, you’ll nonetheless be capable of join along with your family and friends by sending a singular profile hyperlink. Non-public profiles should not discoverable by others on the platform and can stay the default and solely possibility for teenagers underneath the age of 16.”

Earlier this yr, Pinterest introduced that the profiles of all customers aged 16 and underneath could be made personal 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 underneath 16 will nonetheless solely be capable of have a non-public account.

So it’s a slight change in coverage, which basically 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 underneath the age of 16. Teen customers will then be requested to overview their follower record, to make sure that they know who, precisely, is ready to see their content material.

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

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

“Teenagers underneath the age of 16 will solely be capable of ship and obtain messages from mutual followers who’ve been accepted by way of 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 more durable for randoms to attach with kids within the app.

Pinterest is updating its security measures for kids after a report launched earlier this yr discovered that predators had been utilizing the app to collect photos of underage ladies by way of their Pinterest presence. The NBC report discovered that some customers had been capable of circumvent Pinterest’s current security options to entry younger consumer 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 important focus for all social apps.

It’s exhausting to know the way efficient that shall 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 may examine Pinterest’s newest security updates right here.