{"id":998186,"date":"2026-03-13T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998186"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:27:14","slug":"parent-managed-accounts-to-let-u-13-kids-use-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/13\/parent-managed-accounts-to-let-u-13-kids-use-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent-managed accounts to let U-13 kids use WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: WhatsApp has introduced accounts that parents can create and control for children under 13, with restrictions that limit usage mainly to messaging and calling, the company stated in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Parent-managed accounts allow pre-teens to communicate with their family and close friends on WhatsApp with parental supervision,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: WhatsApp has introduced accounts that parents can create and control for children under 13, with restrictions that limit usage mainly to messaging and calling, the company stated in a blog post. &#8220;Parent-managed accounts allow pre-teens to communicate with their family and close friends on WhatsApp with parental supervision,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998186","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}