Meta has introduced new parental supervision tools for Threads users across Asia Pacific, allowing parents to monitor screen time, set usage limits and manage selected safety and privacy settings.
Meta is expanding its parental supervision features to Threads across the Asia Pacific region, giving parents and guardians more ways to oversee how their teenagers use the social media platform.
The new tools are available through Meta’s Family Center, allowing parents to monitor their teen’s Threads activity while establishing limits around usage. The rollout is part of Meta’s wider efforts to provide families with greater control over teenagers’ social media experiences.
One of the key additions gives parents visibility into how much time their teenagers spend using Threads. Parents can use Family Center to review their teen’s usage and establish daily time limits.
They can also restrict access to Threads during specific hours or days. This provides families with greater flexibility to manage social media use around school, sleep and other daily activities.
The controls are designed to give parents supervision without completely removing teenagers’ access to the platform.
Meta is also introducing additional controls covering privacy and content settings. Parents can manage or approve certain settings related to privacy and sensitive content, giving them more oversight of how their teenager interacts with Threads.
Another feature allows parents to control who can tag their teen in posts. This can provide an additional layer of protection around how teenagers are mentioned or connected to content on the platform.
Threads’ new supervision tools build on Meta’s existing Teen Accounts, which are designed to automatically provide stronger protections for younger users.
These accounts can include private profiles and restrictions on the type of content teenagers can view. Meta is now giving parents additional involvement in managing some of these protections.
For teenagers under 16, parents can decide whether they should be allowed to change certain Teen Account settings and make those protections less restrictive.
This means parents can have a greater say in whether specific safety measures remain enabled.
Another important feature is Threads’ sleep mode, which allows families to restrict or block access during selected periods.
The default sleep schedule is set from 10 pm to 7 am. During this period, notifications are muted and automatic replies are enabled, helping reduce interruptions and late-night engagement.
Parents can use the available controls to manage when their teenager can access Threads based on their family's preferred schedule.
Meta’s rollout comes as governments and regulators in several countries increase scrutiny of social media platforms over child safety.
Australia became the first country to introduce a requirement preventing major social media platforms from allowing children under 16 to maintain accounts, with the measure taking effect in December 2025.
The UK has also announced plans involving restrictions on social media access for under-16s from spring 2027. Meanwhile, the European Commission has proposed EU-wide measures that would prevent children under 13 from accessing social media and introduce parental controls for users aged 13 and 14.
These developments have increased pressure on technology companies to strengthen protections for younger users.
Meta said the new Threads features are part of its broader Family Center initiative, which provides parents with supervision tools across its different platforms.
The company has been expanding parental controls to help families manage teenagers’ online activity, including screen time, content exposure and privacy settings.
With Threads now receiving additional supervision options in Asia Pacific, Meta is extending these controls to another major part of its social media ecosystem.
The new tools give parents several ways to manage their teenagers’ Threads experience without completely restricting access to the platform.
Parents can monitor usage, establish daily limits, control access during selected periods and oversee certain privacy and sensitive-content settings. They can also manage tagging permissions and decide whether younger teens can loosen some Teen Account protections.
These options give families more control over how teenagers interact with Threads while allowing them to continue using the platform under additional safeguards.
Meta said it plans to expand its parental supervision capabilities further as part of its ongoing focus on child and teen safety.
The latest Threads rollout reflects the company's broader approach of combining automatic Teen Account protections with parental supervision tools. As regulatory expectations around online child safety continue to develop, such features are becoming an increasingly important part of social media platforms.
Conclusion
Meta’s new parental controls for Threads in Asia Pacific give parents greater oversight of teenagers’ screen time, privacy, content exposure and interactions. The rollout adds another layer of supervision as global focus on children’s online safety continues to grow.