TikTok has announced that it's expanding its audience controls feature, giving creators the ability to restrict their videos to adult viewers. Prior to this expansion, the adult-only audience controls feature was only available for TikTok Live. Now the company is bringing the feature to its short-form videos as well.
The app is letting users restrict their videos so only viewers only the age of 18 can watch. In a blog post, TikTok announced an expansion of its Content Levels, which group the app's users by age and restrict the content seen by younger groups.
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TikTok has helped many retirees overcome ageist stereotypes that insinuate older adults and technology don't mix; for seniors, TikTok offers a safe place where they can become the star of the show and say goodbye to societal ideals of how an older adult should act.
According to the TikTok's own privacy policy, the app collects the names of users, passwords, phone numbers, private messages on the app, the mobile networks used by its users, their contacts, satellite location information, and payment details such as credit card information.
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If you've been online at all since May, you know that there are two main factions when it comes to the app: you're either on Straight TikTok, or Alt TikTok.
Common Sense recommends the app for age 15+ mainly due to the privacy issues and mature content. TikTok requires that users be at least 13 years old to use the basic TikTok features, although there is a way for younger kids to access the app.
Zigazoo Kids is a TikTok-style video-sharing app for posting short videos of students completing a variety of kid-appropriate challenges. Activities focus on simple, straightforward projects that ask students to investigate or create something and then share what they've done with videos up to 30 seconds long.
On TikTok, you can choose whether to have a private account or a public account. If you have a private account, only people you approve can follow you, view your videos, LIVE videos, bio, likes as well as your following and followers lists.
Only you can see who viewed your profile, but if you turn on the feature, you're also consenting to let others see that you've viewed their profile. Thankfully, you have to manually opt-in to TikTok profile views — it's not automatic, so don't worry if you looked at your ex's profile yesterday.
Yes, creators can see some of the people who viewed their TikTok profile, as long as they have the profile views feature enabled. Although TikTok removed the ability to see who has viewed your profile a while back, in January 2022 there were reports that TikTok was adding the feature back in on an opt-in basis.
Yes, TikTok can access your camera, but only if you give the app permission.
“We are a global company,” Mr Hunter said. “For Australians, the user data is held in the US and Singapore with strong cyber security to make sure the data is safe. “There are lot of misperceptions around what happens on TikTok, but Australians are safe on TikTok.”
However, unlike YouTube, which collects your data for Google, TikTok allows third-party trackers on its platform – so that means that there's no telling where your Tiktok data goes. Those third-party trackers can also track your activity even after you close Tiktok.
TikTok's viral Aged filter is drawing mixed reactions online, causing some to express horror at how they might age while others embrace seeing themselves grow old. The filter, which overlays the face in real time, deepens wrinkles and adds facial sagging.
TikTok has always been known to be especially popular among the younger generation. But to what extent? According to recent research studying TikTok users by age, a large majority of TikTokers are between the ages of 18 to 34.