TikTok is the fashion social network, short short videos and music that are successful worldwide. But as in any other similar application or social network, it is important to take privacy into account and control who can or cannot see your videos. Therefore, we explain how to put the private account on TikTok.
There are many filters, effects or options that the application allows and sometimes we simply want to record videos that we can download or upload to other social networks. In those cases, it is best to have a private TikTok account that allows us to take advantage of all its advantages but without being obliged to have followers. For example, we can upload TikTok videos to Instagram or download them to our mobile phone.
Private account
There are two options to put your private account on TikTok: Limit access to all content or upload private videos in a timely manner. Once you put the private account globally, as in the rest of the social networks, you will control which people can see or not see your videos or interact with you in comments.
To put the private account you will have to follow these steps:
- Open the application on your mobile phone
- Go to the lower right corner of the app
- Click on the "I" icon in the corner of the phone
- Once here, go to the upper right corner of the app
- Click on the three points to access the settings
- Choose the option "Privacy & Security"
- You will see "Private account" and you can activate or deactivate the button
You can press this button or not depending on whether you want the account to be private or not. In this way, only the users that you want will be able to follow you, watch your videos or like them. Of course, those you already have they will remain your followers.
You will also find the option "Recommend your account to others". You can deactivate it if you do not want your TikTok profile to appear among the suggestions of other people who may know you or who are interested in accounts like yours.
Videos in private
Beyond having or not having a private account on TikTok, you can mark the videos you upload as private. You can make the video only visible to you and so you can download or watch it, taking advantage of the effects and filters of the app, but no one else will be able to see it. You can choose to make it private when uploading and publishing it.
- Go to TikTok
- Press the "+" in the center of the application
- Record a video as you usually do
- Add effects, filters, sounds, stickers …
- Click on the "Next" button to continue
- You will see the Publication screen
- You can add the description and hashtags
- Tap on the option “Who can see this video”
- Followers
- friends
- Private
- Choose "Private" and only you can see it
It doesn't matter if you choose “Private” and then you want it to be public because you can change the privacy of the video whenever you want and as many times as you want.
Once you have uploaded it, go to your profile. You will see three options in the gallery and in the center of them you will see the padlock icon. Here will be your uploaded private videos.
- Click on the padlock icon
- Choose from the videos privately uploaded to TikTok
- Open the video in question
- Click on the three points that you will find in the right bar
- A pop-up window will open with different options
- Click on "Privacy Settings"
- You will find the option again "Who can see this video"
- Choose this time if you want them to be Followers / Friends
Too you can change the privacy of a normal video that you have uploaded to your profile. Whenever you want you can repeat the process following the same steps.
Other security options
TikTok also has other security and privacy options that allow you to control absolutely everything that happens in the application, if you want nobody to react to your videos or that nobody can send you direct messages, for example. Just go to the same section "Privacy and security" of the application and control the options.
- Allow the download of your videos. You can turn it on or off if you don't want your uploaded videos to be able to download or go viral.
- Who can send you direct messages: Friends or Nobody. Whatever your option, you will be able to receive messages from users to whom you have previously sent a message. Friends are considered those users who follow you in the video application and who you are also following.
- Who can make a duet with your videos: Everyone, Friends or Nobody.
- Who can react to your videos: Everyone, Friends or Nobody
- Who can watch the videos you like: Everyone, just me.
- Who can comment your videos: Everyone, Friends or Nobody
You can also filter comments if you want to avoid spam or offensive comments. From this same section you will find two options:
- Filter spam and offensive comments: Automatically hide unwanted or offensive comments on your videos. Activate or not.
- Filter by keywords: Automatically hide comments with specific keywords for your videos. This will be useful if you want to avoid a specific topic or specific words.