Tiktok Users Will Soon Be Able To Send Voice Notes, Images And Videos In Chats

TikTok is taking different measurement towards becoming much than conscionable a level for infinitely scrolling done short videos. The societal media app told TechCrunch that its users will soon beryllium capable to nonstop sound notes, images and videos successful nonstop messages aliases group chats. According to a TikTok spokesperson, these features will rotation retired successful nan adjacent fewer weeks.

As sound messaging has risen successful popularity, TikTok will clasp nan inclination but is capping nan magnitude of its sound notes to 1 minute. For images and videos, users will beryllium capable to nonstop up to 9 images aliases videos, taken from their phone's camera app aliases library, successful a DM aliases group chat, according to TechCrunch. The study added that location will still beryllium guardrails pinch this caller chat feature, including not being capable to nonstop an image aliases video arsenic nan first connection to different user. This caller regularisation adds to TikTok's existent rules that only let registered users who are astatine slightest 16 years aged to usage its messaging feature. TikTok is besides giving users who are older than 18 nan expertise to toggle connected aliases disconnected an existing characteristic that automatically detects and blocks images that person nudity successful chats for users betwixt 16 and 18 years old.

Other messaging apps for illustration Messenger and Snapchat already let their users to nonstop sound notes aliases media, but TikTok is slow catching up pinch nan competition. Last year, TikTok added group chats that let up to 32 people. More recently, TikTok took a page retired of X and Meta's book by adding nan Footnotes feature successful April, which useful likewise to Community Notes.