If you just landed on the social network TikTok, It is mandatory that you follow certain recommendations to get your account ready. One of the most essential? Know control and manage privacy of your profile on the platform. And today we are going to show you how. Be comfortable.
The control of privacy, mandatory
When we enter a new social network, one of the first aspects that should give us the most worry, Beyond how a certain trick is done or certain content is published, it is that of privacy. This will determine the scope that others will have to our information and what will circulate and what will not about us An internet.
It seems obvious, but many people are still 100% unaware of all the possibilities that the social network they use has in this regard: they are unaware that Instagram can be hidden only for certain people, that on Facebook you can decide that you only add friends of your friends or that on TikTok you can prevent your profile from appearing as recommended to other people you don't know at all.
Precisely today we are going to focus on this last social network, pointing out all the main aspects that you should know if you want to have the check 100% what other people know and see about you. Aim. It is important.
All privacy settings on TikTok
We will detail different actions below that can be manage from the app to decide to what degree you want to be accessible to other users of the TikTok social network. In all the steps that we will describe below, we take the most basic one for granted: that you are inside the app and have done login with your credentials.
Do you want a private account or not?
The most basic of all: decide whether to put your private account. In doing so, only users that you approve will be able to follow and watch your videos and your likes In case you already have followers in your account, this modification does not affect them:
- Access TikTok as you normally would and, once here, click on the icon of the stick figure in the lower right corner to get to your profile.
- Now enter the settings section by clicking on the icon of the three lines in the upper right corner.
- Once we get to the list of settings, we will have to enter the menu of "Privacy".
- Finally, you just have to activate the option with the name of «Private account» by clicking on the slider to the right. As it warns us in the inner part, remember that by activating this option, only the users that we approve will be able to see our content.
Prevent them from finding your account
In addition to deciding if you want your account to be public or private, you can also prevent whether you want TikTok propose to other people. The platform usually suggests its users to follow accounts that it thinks they will like based on their likes and views.
Remember that by default yours will be proposed, but you can prevent that from happening “getting out” of this suggestion system which is the one that usually shows you to other profiles.
- Once inside the app, tap on Me (to enter your profile), located in the lower right corner.
- Tap on the three dots in the upper right corner.
- Enter "Privacy".
- In the section of "Visibility", Go to the second option “Recommend your account to others”.
- Here you can see different settings with which TikTok can recommend your account to different users. If you do not want it to be shown to anyone, you just have to deactivate absolutely everything.
- Your account will no longer be suggested to other people.
Limit who can see each video
It is one thing that nobody can see your videos because your account is private and another very different thing is that you have your public profile but then you have certain content that you only want certain people to see. TikTok allows you to create videos that are only visible to a certain number of people when published and applying this function is as easy as following these steps:
- Record the video you want on TikTok and follow the editing steps until you have it ready.
- Once in the pre-publish panel, tap on «Who can see this video» -is the first option just below the text description and photo.
- You will have three options: Public (all TikTok users can see the video), Friends (only your followers who you also follow), and Private (only you can see it).
- Select the one you want and you're done.
Control who talks to you
In addition to all the actions described so far, another of the most interesting features that TikTok has is that you can decide who interacts with you or, what is the same, who can comment on your contents, react to them or if your videos can be downloaded.
All these options are concentrated in the same control panel and always offer two or three options: Everyone, Friends (users who follow you and those you follow) or Nobody.
- Enter the app and go to your profile (Me), tapping on the icon in the lower right corner.
- Tap on the three dots in the upper right corner.
- Sign in "Privacy", to then access the section "Security".
- Now, if you scroll down the screen until you reach that section, you have the parameters:
- Allow downloading of your videos (On or Off)
- Who can send you direct messages (Friends or Nobody)
- Who can Duet your videos or paste them (Everyone, Friends or Nobody)
- Who can react to your videos (Everyone, Friends or Nobody)
- Who can watch the videos you like (Everyone or Just me)
- Who can comment on your videos (Everyone, Friends or Nobody)
- Select in each of the highlighted points what you want and that's it. It will be saved in your preferences.
Personalized advertising and data
We are entering one of the most difficult issues in social networks: the control that companies have of our data. It turns out that TikTok, like many other services, always shows you advertising based on your activity in and out from TikTok. You can disable this option, but this will not prevent the advertising: What you will prohibit is that the social network makes use of your preferences to adapt the ads to what it thinks you like, which is different.
In case you want modify it (default is on), this is what you should do:
- Enter your mobile application and go to your profile (Me) -bottom right corner.
- Once in your panel, tap on the three dots in the upper right corner.
- Enter Privacy and security.
- Look for “Personalization and data” and enter.
- En Personalized Ads, deactivates the function.
- Ready. The ads that appear on TikTok will not be based on your activity.
You can also download one copy of all the data that TikTok has about you. This can take up to a month from when you make the request, but when you receive it, you will have a report with information about your Profile, Your activity and Your application settings. Note, this request only allows you to see what the social network collects from you, not prevent it from doing so.
To request a copy of your data, follow these steps:
- Enter the app and go to your profile (Me) -icon in the lower right corner.
- Once in the main panel, tap on the three dots in the upper right corner.
- Tap on Privacy and security.
- Look for “Personalization and data” and enter.
- Tap on «Download your data«.
- Click on the red button “Request data”.
- Your request will go into mode pending (with the order date) in the second tab you have on the screen called "dataaccess_downloaddata_tab".
- Once it is available, you will receive a notification and you can click on "Download".
You will have only four days to download it from the moment you receive the notice that the file is generated and available for download. Keep that in mind.
How to turn on Profile View History
Another measure that we can adopt to have greater security is to enable profile view history which, first of all, is disabled with the app and can be very interesting to know who enters more often of all those users that we know. Even those that don't, which may be an even better indication. Keep in mind that this function only stores the activity of the last 30 days and that to have it we have to be over 16 years of age and not have more than 5.000 followers.
To obtain this information, it will first be necessary to go to the privacy settings to do the following:
- Within the TikTok app, tap on Profile in the bottom right corner of the screen.
- Click on the three-line menu icon that you will see in the upper right corner: there you have the settings.
- Now tap on Settings and privacy.
- Click first on Privacy and then on Profile Views.
- Now just tap on the button next to Profile View History to enable or disable the option.
There is another way to perform this operation, but it is through the Profile Views page, and it is as follows:
- Access the TikTok app and tap on Inbox which you will see at the bottom of the screen.
- Now tap on any notification that someone has viewed your profile.
- Once inside Profile Views, click on the Settings icon that appears in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Now, finally, tap on the button that you have right next to Profile viewing history to activate (or deactivate) this function.
Family Sync, what is that?
If at home both parents and children (minors) have TikTok accounts, it is possible to do what the social network defines as Family Synchronization, and that allows us to link all the accounts so that they work as a unit, which makes it easier to control the contents and privacy settings thanks to a network of notifications that can be consulted without separately accessing the account of each of the minors .
In total, There are six functions that we can carry out from our TikTok account synchronized with those of the kids, or any other member of the family:
- Private account management.
- Reading comments on videos.
- Access to direct messages.
- Consultation of searches carried out.
- Control of the time spent by each connected and active account.
- Activate the call Restricted mode.