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TikTok Accepts a Two-Hour Daily Limit for Teens in a $100M Deal
By Editorial Team · published 2026-09-26 · updated 2026-09-27
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TikTok has agreed to hard limits on how long teenagers can use it, as part of a settlement with the state of Alabama announced on September 25. The state gets at least $100 million within 45 days and up to $300 million if certain conditions are met. The product changes are the bigger story: a two-hour daily cap, no access between midnight and 6am, cosmetic filters switched off for teens and a non-personalised feed by default.
What was announced
Alabama's Attorney General announced the settlement on September 25, calling it the first of its kind in the United States, reached in September 2026 days before the case was due to go to trial. It resolves the state's claims about how the platform was designed, the effect on teenage mental health and what the company said publicly about safety. TikTok admits no wrongdoing.
The money is the headline number: a minimum of $100 million to Alabama within 45 days, rising to as much as $300 million if conditions in the agreement are met.
The terms that change the app matter more. For teenage accounts, TikTok agreed to a two-hour daily time limit with parental controls that let parents cut it further; interruptions after 15, 60 and 90 minutes of continuous use; no access between midnight and 6am, with messaging also restricted overnight and during school hours; stronger age verification; a ban on cosmetic filters for teens; a non-personalised feed as the default; and parental notification when an adult interacts with a teenage account in a way the system flags as suspicious.
What it means for players
A two-hour cap with a hard overnight cutoff is a different product from the one teenagers use today. TikTok already ships a 60-minute default prompt for under-18s, but it is a prompt — this is a limit with a parent's passcode behind it, plus three forced interruptions before it is reached.
The filter ban is the change most likely to be felt daily. Beauty filters are a core part of how the app is used, and switching them off for an entire age group removes a feature rather than restricting a session.
The default non-personalised feed is the one with the broadest effect. A teenage account that opens the app now gets a recommendation engine tuned to it; under the settlement it gets an untuned feed until someone changes the setting, which is the difference between the product TikTok sells and a generic video app.
What is not clear is geography. The Attorney General describes a first-in-the-nation settlement resolving Alabama's case, and the announcement does not say whether the changes ship nationally or only to accounts in one state.
What happens next
The payment has a deadline — 45 days — and the product changes do not. The announcement sets no date by which the time limits, the filter ban or the feed default have to be live, so the first thing to watch is whether TikTok ships them quietly in an app update or waits.
The other thing to watch is the other states. Alabama's case was the first to reach this point, and a settled template with numbers attached is now on the table for every attorney general still litigating.
