TikTok Settings
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Navigate to your profile, tap the hamburger menu (☰
) in the top right corner and select Settings and privacy
.
Account
Account
Account Information
- Change your email to a spoofed one
- Remove your phone number
Privacy
Discoverability
- Private account: On (If possible for you)
- Activity status: Off
- Suggest your account to others
- Contacts: Off
- Facebook friends: Off
- People who open or send links to you: Off
- Sync contacts and Facebook friends
- Sync contacts: Off
- Sync Facebook friends: Off
- Location Services
- Permission settings
- Turn on: Never
- Location history
- Delete certain location data -> Delete
- Permission settings
Interactions
- Comments
- Allow comments from: No one/Friends
- Mentions
- Allow mentions from: No one/Friends
- Direct messages
- Allow direct messages from: No one/Friends
- Filtered requests: On
- Read status: Off
- Safe mode: On
- Downloads
- Video downloads: Off
- Following list
- Who can see your following list?
- Turn on: Only you
- Who can see your following list?
- Liked videos
- Who can watch your liked videos
- Turn on: Only you
- Who can watch your liked videos
- Favorite sounds
- Make public: Off
- Post views
- Post view history: Off
- Profile views
- Profile view history: Off
Security & permissions
Security
- Security alerts
- Check security alerts regularly to keep your account safe
- Manage devices
- Remove old devices
- 2-step verification:
- Phone: Off ⚠️ Do not use SMS as MFA to prevent Sim Swapping attacks ⚠️
- Email: Off
- Authenticator: On (Use a privacy-respecting 2FA application)
- Password: On
Permissions
- Apps and services permissions
- Uninstall, remove and unlink everything
- Browser settings
- Autofill payment information: Off
- Autofill contact information: Off
Content & Display
Notifications
- In-app notifications:
- Activity status: Off
- Customized updates and more: Off
- Push notification schedule
- Set a schedule: Off
Messages
- Activity status: Off
- Direct messages
- Turn on push notifications from
- Turn on: None/Friends
- Turn on push notifications from
- Direct messages preview: Off
Personalized post suggestions
- Posts from people you may know: Off
- Posts you might like: Off
Screen time
- Weekly screen time updates: Off
Other
- People you may know: Off
- Customized updates and more: Off
- Email notifications
- All email notifications: Off
Activity center
See all screen time data
- Daily screen time: Off
- Screen time breaks: Off
- Sleep reminders: Off
Watch history
- Delete your entire watch history
Comment history
- Delete your entire comment history
Search history
- Delete your entire search history
Content preferences
Filter video keywords
- Remove all keywords
Restricted Mode
- Turn off
STEM feed
- Turn off
Refresh your For You feed
- Continue -> Refresh
- Why did you refresh your For You feed: Don't answer
Personalised feeds
- Turn off
Personalised search
- Turn off
Ads
Manage data used for ad personalisation
- Personalised ads: Off
Clear activity
- Tap
Confirm
Language
- If you just want to scroll through TikTok and don't care about the interface, change the language of the app to a different one that you feel comfortable with