Customizing Your TikTok Experience: Safety, Privacy, and Well-Being

We prioritize the online experience of our users, ensuring they can create and have fun while feeling safe and comfortable. As part of our Community Well-Being series, we aim to educate users on how to customize their TikTok experience using the available safety, privacy, and well-being tools.

TikTok offers various ways for users to connect with friends and fans, such as creating videos, leaving comments, and sending direct messages. Direct messaging allows private interaction with friends or followers, and users have control over who can send them private messages. By enabling or updating their DM settings, users can stay in control of their communication.

To receive a direct message, users need to follow each other. It doesn't matter if the profile is private or public. If a user wants to prevent someone from sending them private messages, they can unfollow or remove that person from their followers. Additionally, users have the option to turn off DMs entirely from the "Privacy and safety" page.

Organizing direct messages is easy. Users can access their messages from the "Inbox" tab and manage conversations by tapping the three dots in the top right corner. From the 'Details' page, users can mute notifications for specific conversations or pin important ones to the top of their inbox.

In case of harassment or violation of TikTok's community guidelines through direct messages, users can report or block the offending user. Reporting sends problematic messages for moderation review, while blocking cuts off all contact with that person, preventing them from viewing or interacting through messages or videos.

Remember, direct messages are just one aspect of curating your TikTok experience. You can also utilize comment filters, limit unwanted content, control who can make a duet with your content, and manage what people see on your profile.