Chinese Version of TikTok Limits App Use for Children Under 14

A man holding a phone walks past a sign of Chinese company ByteDance's app TikTok, known locally as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, on Oct. 18, 2019. Stringer/Files/Reuters

The Chinese version of TikTok, called Douyin, on Sept. 18 announced that it had placed limits on youth usage of the app of up to 40 minutes a day.

Douyin said in a statement that all authorized users under 14 years old will now access the app in a “youth mode.”