worried about your teens’s Instagram use the social media platform has a new Teen account feature to protect young people and give parents more control to activate the settings you’ll need your teenager to set up family supervision on their account on the mobile app go to settings and scroll down to the family center to activate it if you’re a parent you’ll need to have your own account to supervise your team now you can track who they’ve been messaging though you can’t see what’s in those messages you can also see who they’re following and who’s following them and how much time they spent on the app teen accounts will be set to private by default users 15 and under can’t make settings less strict without parental approval