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

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.

Creating a positive environment where our community can feel safe and comfortable is important to us. Our Community Guidelines outline the trust and respect we expect users to adhere to in terms of content and behavior.

We understand that everyone has different preferences regarding community interaction on their content. To cater to this, we offer various content controls that allow users to customize how others can interact with their content. In this post, we will discuss a few of these options.

One option is to make a video private. With a private account, only approved followers can see your videos. Additionally, you can choose to make specific videos private, visible only to you. This choice can be made during the video upload process or by later making an uploaded video private.

Comment controls are another feature that allows users to decide who can comment on their videos. By accessing the Privacy and Safety settings, users can choose between allowing comments from everyone, mutual followers only, or disabling comments entirely. It is also possible to disable comments for specific videos.

Duets, which allow users to create videos with another user, can be restricted as well. Users have the option to decide who can make duets with or react to their content. This setting can be applied account-wide or selectively enabled or disabled for specific videos.

Ultimately, users have the freedom to choose between a public or private account. We encourage users to be considerate and respectful when interacting with the content created by others.

TikTok is a global community that thrives on creativity and expression. We expect users to approach their interactions with thoughtfulness and respect for the hard work put into creating content.