Instagram will make it mandatory for users to provide their birthday to continue using the app

If you have an Instagram account and have not shared your birth details with the app, you will be shown prompts by the app to provide your birthday.

Instagram will now start showing prompts to users to enter their birthday. If you have an Instagram account and have not shared your birth details with the app, you will be shown prompts by the app to provide your birthday. The prompts will be shown to you every time you open the app. They can be ignored initially but in the longer run, the Facebook-owned app will make it mandatory for users to provide their birthday in order to use Instagram. This would help Instagram in determining the age of the users and show age-relevant content to the users. Talking about the feature, Pavni Diwanji, VP of Youth Products, Instagram said in a blog post, “We’ve been clear that we want to do more to create safer, more private experiences for young people. To do that we need to know how old everybody is on Instagram, so we’ve started asking people to share their birthday with us if they haven’t shared it previously. This work began a few years ago when we started asking people for their birthday. While we have birthdays for most people on Instagram, to get a more complete picture we're introducing two new changes. These changes only apply to people who haven’t already shared their birthday.”