Meta Extends Parental Supervision to Threads Across Asia‑Pacific

Starting this week, Meta is quietly expanding its Family Centre toolbox to cover Threads for users in the Asia‑Pacific region. If you’re a parent who’s been wrestling with your teen’s screen time, you’ll now find a familiar set‑up – just a few clicks away – that lets you peek at how much time they’re spending on the text‑focused platform.

What’s new? You can see a day‑by‑day breakdown of your teen’s Threads activity over the past week, plus an average daily figure that gives you a quick sense of habit patterns. From there, you can slap on daily time caps, or even block the app entirely on certain days or during specific hours. The idea is to give you a little more leverage without having to constantly nag.

Meta also bundles these tools with its existing Teen Account safeguards. Those accounts are already set to private by default and have built‑in limits on the kind of content that shows up. Now, parents can decide whether kids under 16 can loosen those restrictions – a toggle that some families might find useful as children grow older.

Sleep mode gets a tweak too. Between 10 PM and 7 AM, Threads will automatically mute notifications and turn on auto‑replies, effectively putting the app in a night‑time‑off state unless you manually override it. You can also control who gets to tag your teen in posts and fine‑tune privacy and sensitive‑content preferences.

One practical note: the time caps apply to all devices your teen uses. So whether they hop on a phone, tablet or laptop, the clock keeps ticking the same way – a small but handy detail for households with multiple screens.

Meta says this rollout is just the first step. The company plans to keep adding features, aiming for a “one‑stop‑shop” where parents can manage supervision across all Meta apps from a single dashboard. For now, the addition of Threads to the Family Centre line‑up marks a modest but meaningful expansion of the company’s teen‑safety playbook in the region.