What Meta says Can you access your child’s Instagram account?
“While parents can’t directly access teens’ accounts, in some regions, laws give parents the right to set up extra supervision features, including the ability to download and update their teen’s information”.
Instagram;s extra supervision features are available in Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Puerto Rico, Indonesia, European Union, Vietnam and Brazil. If your teen lives in one of the regions listed below, and they meet the age requirements outlined in the law, you can set up extra supervision features on Instagram by clicking the link under the relevant region. You can choose the app (Facebook and Messenger, Instagram or Meta Horizon) you’d like to use to supervise your teen.
Users ages 13 and older are considered authorized account holders and are included in the scope of this policy,” the company says.
Parents may want to check what their children are doing on Instagram, but the platform says they cannot directly access a teen’s account. Instagram’s official FAQ says privacy laws generally prevent it from giving unauthorised access to an account to anyone who is not the account holder. “We’re generally forbidden by privacy laws against giving unauthorized access to someone who isn’t an account holder.