TikTok and the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) are introducing the Digital Safety Partnership to help families safely navigate digital life with their teens.

TikTok’s Digital Safety Partnership for Families helps parents and teens start conversations about their online experiences and set positive digital boundaries together.


Suzy Loftus, Head of Trust and Safety for TikTok USDS. She’ll go over the Digital Safety Partnership for Families and discuss how best to implement it at home. She can also discuss the best ways to start important conversations around online safety with your teens.

In TikTok's work with parents and caregivers, they continue to hear that helping teens navigate the online world can be daunting because it's difficult to keep up with different apps and platforms. TikTok strives to simplify things for them so they can best support their teens. They are starting with the launch of new and improved resources to help families make online safety choices tailored to their individual needs.

Empowering families to have conversations about online safety and well-being
In partnership with the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), TikTok has developed a Digital Safety Partnership for Families. This new resource is designed to help make it easier for families to start conversations about online experiences and set healthy digital boundaries together. It's intentionally not specific to any one platform and parents and teens can customize the template pact as they discuss important topics, such as:

The importance of having regular conversations, not only when something goes wrong
Outlining responsible use of devices
Committing to reviewing an app's rules, safety features, and parental tools before using it
In addition to FOSI, TikTok consulted members of their Content Advisory Council, Youth Council, and parent TikTok creators to ensure they're considering the needs of those the pact is intended to help. Families can find and download the pact from TikTok's Guardian's Guide. To help caregivers learn about this and other digital parenting tips, TikTok plans to work with FOSI to raise awareness of resources available to families, supported by free advertising space on TikTok.

Improved resources for families
TikTok is also launching refreshed editions of their Guardian's Guide and Teen Hub to help families utilize their tools and controls. The Teen Hub has been updated with input from TikTok's global Youth Council, where teens told the platform they wanted to see:

More visual content
Interactive features, like quizzes
More clarity about how blocking and reporting works
TikTok has also streamlined their Guardian's Guide to focus more clearly on the information parents told them they find most important.

Knowing the rules and using the tools
When TikTok surveyed parents of U.S. teens and asked how they would like to see platforms supporting online safety, almost half (48%) said they wanted training on how to use tools to filter out content they don't want their teen to see. More than a third (37%) of parents said they wanted to hear from platforms in a way that doesn't require having an account.

Thanks to this feedback, TikTok is doubling down on their investment in helping caregivers learn about their safety features by launching a national and local TV campaign. This includes tips on how to turn on four critical safety settings for teens, including those that don’t require a parent to have an account on TikTok. The campaign features beloved TikTok creators who are parents of teens themselves, including @ctfit, @fitdadceo, @klemfamily and @mrandmrsgrit, and highlights:

Family Pairing
Default age appropriate settings for teens under 16
Keyword filtering
Comment privacy settings
Keyword filters and comment settings can be modified at any time. More information about these tools and more can be found here.

TikTok continues to gather feedback and raise awareness about their safety features to help ensure that the information parents need is reaching them where they are. TikTok also recognizes the value of parent-to-parent information sharing, which is why parents who already have first-hand experience with their platform and tools are best positioned to help them spread the word about their safety features.



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