Discord Enhances Family Center with New Parental Controls and Teen Activity Insights

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Discord unveiled an update to the Family Center that gives guardians more insights into how their teens are using it: specifically purchases, top interactions, and time spent on Discord. The goal is to help parents track spending or time on the platform.

The platform first launched Family Center in 2023 with an Activity Panel that shows which servers their children have joined, and a weekly email summary for guardians. Now new monitoring capabilities are emerging.

What’s New in Family Center

Guardians can now see the total purchases their teenager made in the last week, including purchases in the Discord Store and Nitro subscriptions.

Also shown is the total time spent on voice and video calls in private messages, groups, and servers over the last week. In the last seven days, Discord highlights the five main contacts and servers the teen interacted with.

This expansion comes as other social networks, including Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, are also implementing restrictions on contacts with teens.

Discord also adds new parental controls that can be edited only by guardians. Now you can control who can send private messages to the teen, and whether sensitive content should be filtered. You can also manage the privacy settings of your children’s data, including how Discord uses their data, including personalized advertising.

Additionally, when teens report content, they may now have the option to notify their parents or guardians. However, Discord does not disclose what content was reported, and recommends discussing this with the parents.

“The new features enable guardians connected with Family Center to take a more active role in creating a safer online space for teens, while respecting their privacy.”

The company emphasizes that these changes are designed to balance transparency with teens’ privacy, supporting families in online safety and control.