Tricks to help protect your TikTok account from nosy people and stalkers

spend time in social networks such as TikTok or Instagram It has become one of the activities to which we devote the most hours of our day or week. Actively, publishing your own contentor simply I watch other people’s videosknown, ours or content creators we found by chance. And although the concept of social networking is related to communication, you can set your own limits. For example, you have several options: control and protect your privacy on TikTokThis way, you will avoid revealing too much of yourself and not giving anyone free rein to contact you.

In the past, we have seen that there are many ways to stop Instagram stalking and to do so your account is more secure. We’ve also seen TikTok’s tools for controlling your security and privacy. And as this social network becomes more and more popular, we’re going to focus on it again and see what you can do to make it more popular. your privacy on TikTok limit your stranger influence. Whether you are posting videos or just visiting this platform to see content of your choice.

TikTok is a great opportunity share time and content with other people. You can broadcast live videos explaining what you are doing and even publish your videos at any time, instantly or on a schedule. Also, uploading videos to TikTok is not a secret. But sometimes it is convenient decide if we want to be accessible for everyone or limit our visibility to other users.

Private or public account

The first important decision. Do you want your TikTok account to be public or private? If you care about protecting your privacy on TikTok, you can choose the second option. You will find it in the section Confidentialitywithin Settings and privacy. There is a full route Profile > More Menu (three horizontal lines) > Settings menu and confidentiality (it has the shape of a gear) > Privacy.

“If you have a personal account, only people you approve will be able to follow you and watch your videos. This will not affect your current followers.” That is, you can change your mind at any time. If you prefer keep your anonymity and simply share your social life on TikTok with your closest circle of friends, personal account This is the best option. If you don’t care, TikTok makes all accounts public by default.

Let others find you

This option is below Personal account. Or was. It’s called something else now, but it’s the same thing. It involves making your account searchable, which anyone can freely do to find another TikTok user by name or nickname. This option is currently called Recommend your account to others. And if you go inside, you will see several options. By default, all three are activated.

Three options to activate or deactivate, depending on the level of privacy you want to achieve on TikTok: Contacts, friends on facebook And Users who opened or sent you links. The first option makes sense. If you have a contact list of friends and trusted people, it’s perfectly normal to want them to know that you have a TikTok account. The other two options are more controversial. Facebook is tied to TikTok’s habit of asking you to sync your TikTok contacts with Facebook and Instagram. You don’t have to do that. And if we’re talking about privacy on TikTok, It’s better to ignore this possibility.

Who can see your videos

If you’re only going to use your TikTok account to watch other people’s videos, this trick won’t interest you. But if you do Maintain a minimum level of privacy on TikTokYou might be interested to know that before publishing a new video, you can decide who will be able to see this. And, most importantly, what can you do about it.

One of the keys to TikTok’s success is that it makes it easy interaction between content creators. Among other things, you have the ability to download other people’s videos, create duets, create stickers from other people’s videos, share other people’s videos to your Story… But that can be good if you want to go all out. TikTok can be a problem if you want to have a less visible profile. So before you publish new content, you’ll have to review several options.

Once you have recorded and edited your video, when you reach the last screen of the TikTok Publishing Assistant, before you tap Maillook at the last three options. The first one says, by default, This post can be seen by everyone. This is normal. If you upload a video to TikTok, it is done so that as many people as possible can see it. But sometimes we don’t want that. We prefer to keep our videos for ourselves and our closest friends. So click on this option and change it to Friends or only you.

What others can do with your videos

Let’s look at two other options you should consider to protect the privacy of your TikTok videos before you publish them. They are Privacy settings And More opportunities. The first one lets you decide what others can do with your videos. Comment, duet, embed videos, create stickers, add your video to your stories… By default, they are all checked. Uncheck them if you prefer your video to remain on your user profile. To turn off all these interactions on all your videos, you will need to go to Privacy > Interaction and disable each option one by one: Story, Duet, Insert, Stickers…

and in More opportunitiesyou can uncheck this option Save to device so that whoever watches your video can’t save it to their phone. This will disable the official TikTok video download. Which everyone can find in the menu Share when watching a TikTok video. But that doesn’t stop someone from downloading your video using third-party apps or websites if they have access to the link. But at least you’ll make it harder for them. To disable downloading for all your videos, go to Privacy > Interaction > Downloads.

Limit and filter comments on your videos

We saw earlier that you can turn off comments on a particular video before you publish it to TikTok. But you can also disable all comments on all your videos. This way, you’ll save this step for every video. Like almost every privacy setting on TikTok we review, you’ll find a section Comments within Confidentiality. The full route is available Profile > More Menu (three horizontal lines) > Settings menu and confidentiality (it has the shape of a gear) > Privacy > Comments. From this section you can also manage comments directly. Instead of going video after video looking for new comments. Or activate filters that will do all the work for you.

The first thing we will do is enter Allow comments from and choose the option that suits your privacy needs on TikTok. By default, anyone can comment on your videos. But you might want to switch to Friends or Nobody. Next, you can activate comment filters. These are used to block comments that contain certain words, such as insults. Can Filter all comments, Filtering spam and offensive comments and even Filter by keywords. These are compatible filters. The last option allows you to tell TikTok what words you don’t want to see in the comments on your videos.

Limit direct messages

Below Comments you will find the section direct messages. Like other social networks, in addition to videos and comments that are usually public, there is an instant messaging system for sending and receiving messages privately. And sometimes this can be an open door for spam accounts or annoying users.

The first thing you should do when you log in is direct messages it touches Allow direct messages from and change to Friends or through Recommended friends. The former are your trusted contacts, meaning they follow you and you follow them. The latter include suggested contacts and Facebook friends if you’ve synced both contact lists. Which you shouldn’t do if you care about your privacy on TikTok.

More interesting options in the section direct messages. You can activate Filtered queries to make TikTok block direct messages from suspicious accounts. You can also enable or disable this option Reading statuswhich lets others see that you have read their messages. Finally, the option Safe mode Blocks messages with unwanted content.