TikTok is a social network that is becoming more and more successful. Its success seems unstoppable, and more and more users are creating a new account on this platform to watch and share new short videos. However, TikTok is a slightly more intrusive network than the ones we previously knew about. An example of this is given as soon as the app is opened, since the first video with sound will begin to play. And this also applies to notifications. It won't have been ten minutes after registering and installing the app and you'll already be receiving an incredible bombardment of notifications asking you to upload videos or so you don't miss someone's new post. If TikTok notifications are taking over your phone screen, don't worry. We can perfectly adjust the notifications we want to receive from TikTok. In this way, you can get rid of this little chaos that usually causes our mobile phones. If you want to learn how to do it, keep reading below:
TikTok notifications
When you sign up to a new social network through a mobile app, it will most likely come with a series of default notifications. Sometimes they are just what is necessary to be informed of what you want about the platform, however, on other occasions, there is an oversaturation of information that you do not know how to contain so that it stops appearing on the screen.
That is exactly what happens with TikTok: when you create a user in your app, are activated automatically an endless number of notices on the phone that can overwhelm you a lot and that sometimes you don't know how to eliminate. The social network notifies you of all possible interactions with your profile, of any updates to the videos that are published (including suggestions that you might like) and even of the streaming that is done. If you are a normal user, we are sure that you will not like receiving so many notifications. Before showing you how you can deactivate, we think it's a good idea for you to know what types of notifications are on TikTok. In this way, once you know what each one does, you can decide if it is convenient for you to keep them activated or deactivated in each particular case.
Types of notifications offered by TikTok
We list and briefly explain the types of notices you can receive from the social network application:
Interactions:
- : the likes you receive from people who view your content.
- Comments: the public messages (comments) that users leave on your posts.
- New followers: As the name suggests, it alerts you every time someone new starts following you.
- Mentions: if someone mentions you with your username, you get a notice.
Posts:
- Direct messages: it's about the private messages you receive from someone. If a contact writes to you, you will see a notice on the screen.
- Show message preview: will block the preview of the messages you receive.
video updates
- Video of accounts you follow: They notify you when new content has been uploaded in all the accounts you follow.
- video suggestions: one of the most annoying. These are notifications from the social network itself with suggestions of videos that they think you will like so that you can enter and see them.
LIVE
- Recommended LIVE Videos: has little mystery. You receive a notice when one of your contacts decides to make a live video on TikTok or even one that TikTok itself thinks might interest you.
Other
- people you may know: With this option we will allow TikTok to send us notifications about people who may know our contacts. That is, notifications in chains of friends.
- Custom upgrades and more
All of them, as we indicated, are activated by default, so shortly after starting to use the app, you will find many warnings that you might not like to have. Do you want to remove some of them? It is very simple just by accessing the app preferences (either on Android or iOS).
Inbox and push notifications
In any case, although the number of notifications that TikTok generates can become a morrocotudo mess, the truth is that everything is quite simplified when we understand that the notices go to what they define from the social network as the Inbox, given that It is there where we can consult any notification that has been generated by the activity of our account. So from that place, we suggest that you filter exactly what you want to see, leaving out what you think is of no interest or you can leave for later.
To make that selection of what you want TikTok to notify you, you just have to:
- Go to Inbox.
- Click on the option All activity.
- Choose (filter) content by , Comments, Mentions, Followers o By TikTok.
In any case, if you do not want to wait to enter the application and you prefer that TikTok notify you in real time as these news arrive around your profile, always you can choose the notifications push, that it is also possible to customize them so that they don't all rain little by little, dripping non-stop throughout the day. Here, too, you can choose the ones that are going to be shown to you, hiding (or rather, silencing) the ones you don't need or prefer to leave in the background.
So to also customize those notifications push, you must:
- Click on your Profile, in the lower right corner of the screen.
- Click on the icon of the three lines that you will see in the upper right corner.
- Click on the option Settings and privacy.
- Select the Notifications push from TikTok.
- Select the type of notifications that you would like to receive from all those that appear on the list, selecting only the ones that you believe to be the most important or priority.
Obviously, if you don't want to see anything outside the application again, you just have to block them all, which in certain situations we recommend you do. Especially if you are at work, or studying, and complete concentration on what you are doing is necessary.
Block TikTok notifications from mobile
In the event that you want to block all those root notifications, you should know that you can block them directly through your smartphone whether you have an Android phone or an iPhone. The app will not let you cut them completely, so we will do it ourselves from the system.
Block TikTok notifications on Android
In the event that you have a phone with the Google operating system (Android), You will have to:
- Access the settings app of your mobile
- From here, go down until you find a section that is related to applications or that directly mentions notifications. Depending on each brand, model or manufacturer, this menu could be called in a different way.
- Once here, you will have to access said notifications section, or search for the name of the TikTok app and enter it.
- Now, being within TikTok's own configuration, you will be able to see a section of the app's own notifications. Click here to enter.
- Finally, this section is the one that controls the "root" notices that this application can launch. And, as you can see, you can adjust those notifications that you do not want to see separately. Although, if what you want is for all of them to disappear, you just have to deactivate the “All TikTok notifications” option to say goodbye to them.
Block TikTok notifications on iPhone (iOS)
On the other hand, in the event that your mobile phone is a iPhone (any model), the steps to follow are these:
- Access the settings section of your mobile.
- Swipe through the menus until you reach the Notifications section and enter it.
- Now, scroll down until you locate the specific TikTok app. Click on it to enter.
- This menu that you see now is the one that manages all the notifications that you receive from this social network on your phone. Therefore, this is where you can adjust which of them and how you will receive them.
- In the event that you do not want to receive any notifications from TikTok, you just have to deactivate the first option that with the name of "Allow notifications"
This simple way is how you can control all aspects of the notifications that TikTok sends to your smartphone. Whether you make the settings through the social network itself, or if you configure it from the internal settings of the phone. What has been easier than it seemed?