About supervision for teens at Meta
Supervision is a set of tools and insights that parents and guardians can use to help support their teens (ages 13-17, or 14-17 in some regions) on Meta technologies like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Meta Horizon.
Parents or guardians can use Family Center to supervise their teen’s account on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Meta Horizon even if they only have an account on one of these apps. Parents can also set up supervision for their teen’s accounts across these apps at one time.
Learn more about what setting up supervision allows you to do on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Meta Horizon.
Supervision is optional for teens, and both the parent and the teen must agree to participate. It can be removed at any time by either person. The other person will be notified of the removal.
Supervision is also automatically set up for parents who manage a child’s Meta account on Meta Horizon. Note: Meta accounts for children on Meta Horizon are for people ages 10-12 (age may vary by region).
See below for supervision features available by app:
When supervision is set up, parents and guardians can:
- See how much time their teen has spent on Facebook each day for the last week, and their average daily time spent for the week.
- Set up sleep mode to limit their teen’s use of Facebook during select days and hours.
- Set up daily limit to limit how long their teen uses Facebook in a day. Parents can choose whether their teen sees a reminder to close the app, or is blocked from using Facebook.
- See their teen’s Facebook friends.
- Manage and approve some of their teen’s privacy settings and sensitive content preferences.
- See the people and Pages their teen has blocked.
- View and adjust their teen’s audience settings, including:
- Who can see their future posts, stories or reels
- Who can see their friends list
- Who can see the people, Pages and lists they follow
- Who can see posts they’re tagged in on their profile
- Who can comment on their public posts
- Whether anyone can remix their future public reels
- Whether they must review posts they’re tagged in before the post appears on their profile.
- View and adjust some of their teen’s profile details settings, including who can see their phone number, email address and other info like their birthday.
Connecting with a supervised user
When you interact with a supervised account, their parent or guardian can see some of your activity and information. This can include information, like your username, profile picture and if the supervised user blocked you. The supervised user can let their parent or guardian know if they reported you.
It's important that your supervisor is your parent or guardian, because they will be given controls and insights into your activity to help keep you safe. You can remove supervision at any time.