ALABAMA (WHNT) — Starting Monday, parents in Alabama will receive notifications about their teens’ Instagram accounts, according to Meta.
In 2024, Meta launched Instagram Teen Accounts. This program provided age-appropriate and parental supervision tools. On April 21, 2025, Meta said it was rolling out a plan to ensure Alabama teens were accurately stating their age on Instagram.
Meta said they’ve enrolled roughly 54 million teens globally into Teen Accounts. The company said 97% of teens ages 13-15 elected to remain in these protections. Meta said it recently spread the Teen Account experience to Facebook and Messenger.
Starting today, Meta will begin sending notifications to parents on Instagram with information about how they can have conversations with their teens on the importance of providing the correct age online. Meta said it worked with experts like pediatric psychologist Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart to share tips on how to have these conversations, and to check and confirm their teens’ ages on our apps.
Meta also acknowledged that parents are busy and might not have the time to review these settings, so they are taking an additional step in ensuring teens are properly enrolled in the program. Starting today, Meta said it was beginning to test AI technology in the U.S. designed to find accounts it suspects belong to teens, even if the account lists an adult birthday.
The AI technology would then place them in a Teen Account if it suspected they lied about their age.
Below are the examples of what parents should see, starting today.
You can learn more about this and Instagram Teen Accounts on Meta’s website here.
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