Tiktok Now Lets Users Send Voice Notes And Images In Dms

TikTok is giving users caller ways to interact pinch others via nonstop messages (DMs), nan institution told TechCrunch connected Friday. Users will now beryllium capable to nonstop sound notes and stock up to 9 images aliases videos successful one-to-one and group chats connected nan platform.

With these caller features, TikTok is positioning itself arsenic much than conscionable an intermezo platform, aiming to go a spot wherever users interact regularly beyond simply sending each different TikTok videos. Additionally, nan caller capabilities bring TikTok’s messaging acquisition much successful statement pinch that of different celebrated societal apps and services.

With sound notes, users tin grounds and nonstop audio messages up to 60 seconds long. The motorboat of nan characteristic comes arsenic services for illustration WhatsApp, Instagram, and Apple’s Messages already connection nan expertise to nonstop sound notes to others via DMs.

It makes consciousness for TikTok to adhd sound notes to its DMs, particularly arsenic a increasing number of people, particularly Gen Z, are embracing nan format for communication.

The characteristic is rolling retired complete nan adjacent fewer weeks, TikTok says.

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As for sharing photos and videos, users tin either return a photograph aliases video pinch their camera aliases prime 1 from their camera rotation to stock it pinch others. They tin besides take nan edit nan contented earlier sending it.

For personification safety, group can’t nonstop an image aliases video arsenic their first connection request. For example, if personification messages you for nan first time, they can’t nonstop a photograph aliases video they person taken themselves; they tin only stock contented already connected TikTok.

Additionally, erstwhile personification chooses to nonstop a photograph aliases video, TikTok will punctual them to protect their privateness and beryllium mindful of who they’re sending that contented to.

While DMs connected TikTok are unavailable to users nether nan property of 16, nan institution is adding protections for users betwixt nan ages of 16 and 18. For instance, TikTok has automated systems successful spot to observe and artifact images containing nudity. This intends that nan sender will beryllium blocked from sending nan nude image, and nan receiver won’t spot nan image astatine all.

Users supra nan property of 18 tin take to toggle this information characteristic connected successful their app settings.

TikTok sees nan caller features arsenic a measurement for users to definitive themselves and link pinch others successful ways that they’re already accustomed to.

The move comes arsenic TikTok has been moving to build retired its messaging product. Last year, nan level launched group chats, giving users nan expertise to chat pinch up to 32 group astatine once. TikTok besides precocious rolled retired Creator Chat Rooms, a dedicated abstraction for creators and their followers to link and interact pinch each other.