How to set up Tik Tok

Every day, the number of users of TikTok is only increasing, although the application has already been downloaded more than two billion times. But at the same time, there are still people who are just getting to know him. And at the first start, a person may have questions related to registration and configuration. Let’s figure out how to set up Tik Tok. We have prepared a detailed article on this topic.

Manual

First, I would like to mention setting up the application immediately after installing it on a mobile phone, which can be enabled or, conversely, disabled, for a more convenient use of TikTok. And then we will go directly to setting up the recommendation feed so that the platform offers you only interesting videos.

Application settings

When you first launch the mobile application, you will be introduced to its management and interface. In general, everything is extremely simple: just swipe up on the screen to go to a new video, double-tap is responsible for the like, and the main tabs are placed on the bottom panel. You can go directly to the settings like this:

  1. Open the Tik Tok app if it’s not already running.
  2. Visit the profile tab.
  3. Invoke the menu by clicking on the appropriate icon.Menu icon in profile tab in app

In total, six sections of parameters are available to the user. Let’s go through three of them and learn useful features, because the rest are more for reference.

Account

This block contains everything related to user profile management:

  • Account management – change the phone number, attached email and password, as well as switch to a business account and delete function.
  • Privacy– if you do not want your profile to be visible to other people, then activate the “Private…” mode. Here you can also turn off personalized ads, disable uploads, comments, stitching and duets for your videos. Privacy section in settings
  • Security– We recommend enabling 2-Step Verification to protect your account. You can also sign out from other devices here.
  • Author Tools – view profile statistics, enable Q&A, split videos into playlists, and access the Creator Portal.Author Tools section in settings
  • Wallet– check the balance and withdraw funds earned during live broadcasts.

Content and actions

Let’s go through all the important parameters from this block:

  • Push-notifications – Set up in-app notifications about new likes, comments, mentions, recommendations, etc.
  • Language – select the main language of the application and the language for translation.Language section in settings
  • Preferred content – choose which language you want to watch videos in.
  • Digital Wellbeing – a reminder of the time spent in the application and a safe mode that completely hides ambiguous content (especially relevant for children).Safe mode section mode in settings
  • Family Settings – the ability to fine-tune TikTok for a child.
  • Accessibility – enable live photos for wallpapers, animated covers, and disable flash clips if viewing them is contraindicated.Universal access section in settings

Cache and mobile data

Here you can clear all temporary files to free up memory on your device, activate the traffic saving mode, in which videos will load faster, but in poorer quality. This is very useful when the Internet is slow or limited. And the last item is responsible for choosing wallpaper for the application.

Setting recommendations

When you first enter the mobile application, you will be asked to indicate the topics of the videos that you may be interested in. Based on this choice, language and region of residence, a feed of recommendations will be generated. But that’s not all there is to know.Select interests on first launch

One of the main features of TikTok is a detailed analysis of user preferences. The application constantly analyzes which videos you like the most and which ones you immediately skip, and based on this it sets up recommendations. The main goal of such a system is to increase user retention within the application. Recommended video example

And now we want to explain how to customize the recommendation feed in a certain way. In most cases, just sitting on TikTok is enough, and she will “adjust” herself to you. But there are some important tips on how to achieve the desired result:

  • Be sure to like the videos you like. The easiest way to do this is by double-tapping one place on the device screen.
  • Comments are also desirable for interesting videos. If the video seemed unpleasant to you, then you should not comment on it, because there is a higher chance that something like this will come across more often.
  • Contributors should be followed if you see that their content interests you.

But what about those videos that you don’t like? There are two options here:

  • Single cutscenes are easiest to skip right away by swiping up.
  • If you come across “undesirable” topics from time to time, then you need to hold your finger on the screen when such a video appears and select “Uninteresting” in the context menu. Do this a few times and you won’t see this theme again. Not interested button for video

Summing up

Setting up the TikTok mobile app is a fairly simple task as there are only a few options available to the user to change. We discussed this procedure briefly at the beginning of the article. But setting up a recommendation feed is a more interesting topic, because TikTok is designed in such a way that it tracks user preferences and, based on the data received, offers videos and live broadcasts for viewing.

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