{"id":998163,"date":"2026-03-13T11:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998163"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:37:35","slug":"whatsapp-unveils-new-parent-managed-account-model-for-children-under-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/13\/whatsapp-unveils-new-parent-managed-account-model-for-children-under-13\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp unveils new parent-managed account model for children under 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp has unveiled a new &#8220;parent-managed&#8221; account model, effectively opening the messaging platform to pre-teens (children under the age of 13) under strict guardian oversight. <\/p>\n<p>The move marks a strategic shift for the messaging app, which has historically maintained a minimum age requirement of 13 (or higher in some regions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp has unveiled a new &#8220;parent-managed&#8221; account model, effectively opening the messaging platform to pre-teens (children under the age of 13) under strict guardian oversight. The move marks a strategic shift for the messaging app, which has historically maintained a minimum age requirement of 13 (or higher in some regions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}