Extra supervision features available under regional laws on Messenger

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These features are only available in some regions and may not be available in your area. This article covers supervision of your teen's Messenger profile.
Parents and guardians of teens under 18 can set up supervision on Messenger to help teens balance their time and provide support. The supervision features we provide everyone are optional—parents or teens can invite each other to set them up and can remove them at any time.
For a parent to set up supervision, you must be 18 or older, both you and your teen must agree to participate in supervision, and the teen you are supervising must be 13-17 years old, depending on where they live.
In some regions, laws give parents the right to set up extra supervision features. Parents can request to set up these features if their teen lives in one of these regions and meets the age requirements outlined in the law. Only parents can remove these features until a teen turns 18 (or the relevant age in their region), at which point they’ll automatically be removed.
Setting up extra supervision features
If your teen lives in one of the regions listed below, and they meet the age requirements outlined in the law, you can set up extra supervision features by clicking the link under the relevant region.
You may be asked to verify your identity before you can invite your teen to set up extra supervision features. To do this, we’ll ask you to upload a valid government ID, or two forms of non-government IDs. Confirming your identity may take up to 48 hours. Your ID will be stored securely and deleted within 30 days after we’ve finished confirming your identity. It won’t be used for anything else, including ads. We might use trusted service providers to help review your information.
Once we’ve confirmed your identity, you can invite your teen to set up extra supervision features. They’ll be asked to confirm that you’re their parent or guardian before features are set up. If your teen doesn’t confirm that you’re their parent or guardian, or they don’t respond within 7 days, you can invite them again. If your teen remains unresponsive or doesn’t confirm, you can set up supervision features by providing us with more information like their birth certificate.

Using another Meta app to supervise on Messenger

You can use some other Meta apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Threads or Meta Horizon) to supervise your teen's Messenger profile. When setting up, you'll choose which app you'd like to receive notifications on. You can still use the other apps to manage supervision.
If you want to set up extra supervision for your teen’s profile on another Meta app, go to that app's Help Center article for instructions:

Extra supervision features by region

Managing or removing supervision

Parents can manage supervision features, including removing supervision at any time. If you’ve added extra supervision features available under regional law, all features will be removed when you remove supervision. Extra supervision features available in your region will automatically be removed when your teen turns 18 (or the relevant age in your region).
If your teen moves out of that region, we’ll remove extra supervision features. You’ll still be able to supervise your teen by seeing insights into their activity, setting time limits, responding to requests to change their Teen Account settings and more. We'll notify you of any changes if this happens.

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