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Wizz

Explained for parents by The Digital Childhood.

What it means

An app for meeting strangers and chatting with them. You swipe through profiles like a dating app, and kids call it Tinder for teens. It raised its minimum age from 13 to 16 in late 2025, it has no parent controls, and it's been tied to sextortion because there's no real way to know who's on the other end.

How to bring it up with your kid

"If Wizz or an app like it ever shows up on your phone, I want to know. It's built for talking to people you've never met, and that's not something you're doing right now."

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