Why change your location on TikTok
Often, the region you are in plays a big role on platforms like Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok. Changing the region can affect the kind of content the platform provides you, as well as change the region where your videos are shown!
Let’s take TikTok as an example: you make videos aimed at a narrow circle of people (a specific region or country), because that’s where your content is most in demand, but you don’t live in that region. That’s why TikTok won’t show your videos to the region you need, and the reach of your viewers will be much lower. In such cases, you should think about changing the region in order to increase the coverage of views. Also, changing the region will also affect what the platform shows you.
You can start following accounts from other regions
Since TikTok analyzes what you like to watch, you can start following accounts from other regions. That way, the TikTok’s algorithm will know you’re interested and recommend more videos from similar users. You should also comment and like videos of authors from other regions and interact with their subscribers.
At the same time your account will appear in other people’s feeds, but you need to stay active and repeat such actions more than once.
Other options
Unfortunately, VPNs won’t help here. TikTok uses more than just your IP address to determine your location, so using a VPN won’t fool it. It also checks your SIM card number to find out where you use it. It helps a lot to keep the real regions in the app. So to change the region you can use an international sim card. You just need to find yourself a mobile operator and buy such a card. If your smartphone has two SIM cards, this makes it much easier. Almost all modern phones have an e-SIM, so you can “hardwire” your line to the phone itself and free up a SIM slot. If you don’t have that option, you’ll have to switch SIM cards around a lot.
Also a good option is IOS and Android emulators. Using them on computers can make TikTok think you’re using an Apple or Google mobile device, and with the IP address you set on your computer via VPN, you can change your region.
Language controls in TikTok
TikTok will only produce videos in the languages you choose. A nice perk is that you can select multiple preferred content languages! To select languages you need to:
- Tap on ‘Me’ in the app (lower right corner).
- Hit the 3 little dot menu icon (upper right corner).
- Tap ‘Content Preferences’ in the Account section.
- Add the language of the region you want to see videos from
