Instagram will start asking clients their birthday beginning today, the organization reported in a blog entry.

Individuals age 13 and above have the right to use this app, but there is no real way to detect or check the user’s age till now.

“Requesting this data will help keep underage individuals from joining Instagram, assist us with keeping youngsters more secure and enable more appropriate experiences overall,” the company wrote.

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Messaging Control

The firm is additionally doing an approach to control who messages you. Beforehand clients had the option to get persuasively included in a lot of visits by spambots, or simply get messages from anonymous outsiders. For influencers’ promotion of famous people, this represented an issue.

Presently Instagram gives you a chance to pick who can message you. Much like Twitter, you can pick to leave it open to everybody, or you can confine it to clients you pursue. Similar settings are presently accessible for gatherings.

The two changes are turning out today. In the coming months, Instagram says it’ll “utilize the birthday data you share with us to make progressively experiences, for example, education around account controls and recommended privacy settings for young people.