Snapchat launches Family Center parental-control feature in Saudi Arabia Snapchat launches Family Center parental-control feature in Saudi Arabia Short Url https://arab.news/45jhu Updated 04 October 2022 ARAB NEWS October 04, 2022 00:13 30 It allows parents to monitor the online safety of their children by providing details about people with whom youngsters are communicating through the app DUBAI: Instant messaging service Snapchat, in cooperation with Saudi Arabia’s General Commission for Audiovisual Media, has launched in the Kingdom its Family Center parental-control feature. The new feature was introduced to the app in August in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It was launched last month in the UAE at an event attended by Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and other government officials. Family Center is designed to give parents and guardians more control over children’s Snapchat habits. It allows them to view details of the people with whom a child is communicating without seeing the content of the conversations, to protect the privacy of the young person. Any suspicious accounts can be easily reported to Snapchat. Family Center is designed to be used both by parents and children. Parents and guardians are required to install Snapchat on their own devices and then link their accounts to those of their children to access the feature. They can also invite other family members, age 25 or over, to use the feature. According to a study by data analytics and brand consulting company Kantar, 71 percent of parents in the Kingdom use Snapchat.