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Parents can put an AirTag into a hidden compartment of the new shoes in the Find My Sketchers collection to track the location of their child in the Find My app.

Apple’s AirTag item tracker isn’t just a convenient way to keep track of your luggage when traveling, keys, cars, wallets and other personal belongings; now you can put them in a pair of new Sketchers shoes.

This enables parents to track the whereabouts of their kids wearing these shoes in the Items section of the Find My app on their iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch, as well as on the web at iCloud.com.

Sketchers brings the new Find My Skechers collection with a hidden AirTag compartment

The new Find My Skechers collection brings AirTag functionality. The company’s YouTube commercial claims that kids won’t feel anything as the hidden compartment doesn’t impact comfort. The compartment is completely invisible.

“Upgrade your kid’s shoes with Find My Skechers…compatible with an Apple AirTag! Just buy and insert your tracking device into the sole’s hidden compartment,” reads the video description. “They come in perfect designs for school and have all the soft cushioning that children love, so that they’ll be comfortable all day while you have comfort of mind.”

The AirTag participates in Apple’s Find My network, which relies on crowd-sourced data to enable location tracking. An AirTag stashed in the hidden compartment will report its location via the kid’s iPhone or other Apple device.

If they went out without their iPhone or another Apple device on them, the AirTag will rely on nearby iPhone and Android devices (via Bluetooth) to pick up its signal and report its location to the Find My network.

Apple doesn’t condone using AirTags for tracking small children who could swallow the item tracker. But in this case, there’s no such danger as an AirTag is safely tucked in the hidden compartment. Parents can also give their kid an Apple Watch with cellular capability to track their whereabouts.

The new Find My Skechers collections comprises a variety of shoe styles, with prices ranging from $52-58 per pair.

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TikTok has launched Family Pairing, a new set of parental controls that enable parents to monitor both the consumption and uploading of videos by teens.

Parents or legal guardians will receive a notification whenever their teen (ages 16-17) uploads a video, story or photo that’s visible freely to others on the platform.

“This helps parents stay informed and start open conversations about what their teen is posting, without disrupting a teen’s creativity or independence,” TikTok says.

TikTok launches new Family Pairing parental controls

Parents can also check if their teen has enabled downloads for their content, which allows other TikTok users to save videos to their device.

Furthermore, parents or legal guardians will be notified if their teen has made their following list visible to others, or if others can Duet or Stitch with what they post. Additionally, parents can see which topics the teen has turned on in their feed. TikTok says these features are permanently off for teens 13-15 by default and can’t be changed.

Parents can now block specific accounts to prevent their teen from following them. A blocked account cannot interact with the teen; its content vanishes from the teen’s feed, and the profile becomes unavailable to view.

“If things change, teens can send their parents a request to unblock the account, but parents make the final decision,” noted TikTok. The feature will initially hit Europe.

If you rely on Apple’s Family Sharing feature and Apple’s Screen Time parental controls to prevent kids from downloading apps like TikTok, you should be aware that there’s a workaround that your junior probably knows about.

New creator tools and community notes

The new Family Pairing tools were announced today alongside new creator tools to block offensive video comments, bulk mute words, phrases and emojis during live broadcast, the ability to check whether a video is likely to be ineligible for the For You feed, a new creator chat room feature and more.

Last but not least, TikTok has introduced the Footnotes fact-checking feature akin to X’s Community Notes. Initially available in the United States only, the feature relies on the collective knowledge of the TikTok community to prevent misinformation, lies and conspiracy theories from spreading on the platform.

TikTok users enrolled in the Footnotes pilot can write and rate footnotes on short videos. When enough Footnotes contributors mark a community note as helpful, it becomes publicly visible on the platform.

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