What's the new 'Take a Break' feature from Instagram? - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life Instagram is introducing a new safety feature to help ’ empower people’ By You Magazine - December 8, 2021 Most of us can understand the struggle of spending too much time on social media. ‘Just one more scroll,’ you say to yourself, and half an hour later you still haven’t moved. Not only does this habit suck up a lot of time, but it’s not the best for our brains either. That’s why the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, has announced the arrival of new safety and well-being features to the app. Getty Images This week, Adam revealed Instagram will now have a ‘Take a Break’ feature, which will track how long you’re spending on the app. Once you opt-in to the feature, Instagram will ask you if you want to take a break from it after a certain amount of time – 10, 20 or 30 minutes, Adam explained in a post. The company believes the ‘Take a Break’ option will ’empower people to make informed decisions about how they’re spending their time’. The feature will also suggest you set reminders to take more breaks from the app going forward. Instagram’s ‘Take a Break’ option will be launching in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. So if this sounds like something you (or your kids) need, be sure to opt-in to it on the app. Facebook and Instagram actually launched time limit reminders back in 2018, but the new aspect of the feature is the prompt. Instagam The social media giant is also introducing more safety measures for teenagers. ‘We’ll be taking a stricter approach to what we recommend to teens on the app, we’ll stop people from tagging or mentioning teens that don’t follow them, we’ll be nudging teens towards different topics if they’ve been dwelling on one topic for a long time,’ Adam said in a blog post. The focus on the social media app’s safety comes after the Wall Street Journal published internal reports in September, that showed Facebook (Instagram’s parent company now known as Meta), had full knowledge of the harm it was causing young people. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) What’s more, Instagram is making it easier for people to see and manage their activity on the app. For the first time, teenagers will be able to bulk delete content they’ve posted, as well as their previous likes and comments, in order to give them ‘an easier way to manage their digital footprint’. Parents and guardians get more safety help, too. They’ll be able to view how much time their children spend on Instagram and set time limits. In March 2022, the company is hoping to launch a new educational hub to guide parents and guardians on how to discuss social media use with their teens. Let’s hope we all do manage to ‘take a break’ from social media! RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved