Tool
The settings that take back your feed
The Instagram and TikTok feeds are built to keep you there, not to show you what you actually came for. This tool walks you through the settings that put the choice back in your hands, and what each one really does.
Start with your own feed, so you know what's coming. Then do the walkthrough with your teenager rather than changing anything on their behalf. The settings live on their phone, and the explanations give you both the words for the why.
Control the algorithm
Which app are we fixing?
How old is the account holder?
Teen accounts have different defaults, and some of these settings are locked. The answer changes what we recommend.
A band, not a birth date. We do not store a date, and we do not ask who you are.
Pssst: we recommend going through the questions on your phone, so you can copy over the words you want to avoid instead of typing them again.