#TikTok privacy

TikTok has strengthened its app experience through another safety update, this time to protect the younger members of its community. The update brings better and tighter privacy settings for children's accounts, limiting users that can interact with them on the app. TikTok also restricts buying, sending, and receiving of virtual gifts to users aged 18 and up. TikTok has announced a range of new safety and privacy controls for teenagers aged 13-17 to further enhance proactive protections on the platform. Check out the new features below: • New changes to Direct Messaging privacy settings - The Direct Messaging setting of users aged 16-17 will now be set to 'No One' by default. In addition, existing accounts that have never used DMs before will receive a prompt asking them to review and confirm their privacy settings the next time they use this feature. These updates build on TikTok's current messaging protections, such as not allowing images or videos to be sent in messages and disabling messaging for accounts under age 16. To help teens understand the sharing options available to them, TikTok is now adding a pop-up that appears when teens under the age of 16 are ready to publish their first video, asking them to choose who can watch it. Read more in our articles including "TikTok strengthens safety features to protect younger users" and "TikTok intros new privacy controls for teenagers".