Hajra Naz
Discord has launched a major update to its Family Center, giving parents and guardians deeper insights into their teens’ online activity. The goal is simple—to promote digital safety, transparency, and healthier screen habits.
A Step Toward Safer Teen Experiences
With this new update, guardians can now monitor teen purchases, top interactions, and time spent on Discord. The feature helps parents understand if their teens are spending too much time or money on the app.
Discord first introduced its Family Center in 2023. It came with an activity dashboard showing which servers teens joined and a weekly email summary for guardians. Now, the platform is expanding those tools to include more real-time safety features and spending insights.
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New Insights for Parents
Guardians can now view the total purchases made by their teens each week, including items from Discord’s Shop and Nitro subscriptions—the app’s premium membership.
The dashboard will also show the total time spent on voice and video calls in DMs, groups, and servers during the past week. Additionally, Discord will highlight the top five users and servers a teen interacted with.
This move follows similar actions from Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook, which have also introduced tighter teen safety measures and contact restrictions.
More Parental Controls
Discord is also rolling out new parental control settings that only guardians can manage. These include who can send DMs to the teen, whether sensitive content should be filtered, and how data privacy settings are managed.
Parents can now decide how Discord uses a teen’s data—including whether personalized ads appear. The goal is to give families more control over data protection and content exposure.
Reporting and Transparency
Another new feature gives teens the choice to notify their guardians when they report content. However, Discord says it will not reveal the details of the reported material, respecting the teen’s privacy. The platform encourages open communication between teens and parents about online experiences.
In a blog post, Discord explained that these updates are designed to “help guardians play a more active role in creating a safer online space for teens — while still respecting their privacy.”
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Broader Trend in Teen Safety Tech
The update comes amid a broader industry shift toward teen protection across major tech platforms. Companies like Meta, YouTube, and OpenAI have also introduced new tools to enhance child safety, content moderation, and AI transparency.
Even AI-driven platforms such as Character. AI and ChatGPT have faced pressure to improve teen protection features and prevent exposure to harmful content. Discord’s new Family Center update aligns with this growing focus on digital well-being and responsible technology.
FAQs
1. What is Discord’s Family Center?
The Family Center is a parental dashboard that gives guardians insights into their teen’s activity on Discord, including usage patterns, contacts, and purchases.
2. Can parents see what messages their teens send?
No. Parents can view general activity data like top contacts and time spent, but not private messages.
3. What new features were added in Discord’s update?
The update includes weekly purchase tracking, call duration stats, top interactions, enhanced DM controls, and teen reporting notifications.
