Sometimes we want to share something online, but we don’t want anyone to comment on it. Maybe it’s a video of your wedding, or a recording of your loved one’s funeral, many people today like to share their personal life events with strangers online. The problem with this kind of sincerity is that the Internet is full of rude people who think they have the right to say anything online. To avoid comments from such people, there is a possibility to set the privacy for comments. Below is a detailed description of what exactly there are privacy settings in TikTok.
Types of the Privacy settings
Whether your TikTok account is public or not, you have the ability to adjust the privacy settings of every video you put online. This is the best way to restrict people to leave comments under your video. You can do this either when you upload a video or later if you ever want to change something. There are a total of 4 video viewing settings:
- Public — the default state of privacy settings for all videos when you upload. The video will be viewable for everyone.
- Followers — As the name implies, this type of privacy setting gives access to viewing your content only to those who are subscribed to you. A very convenient option if you need subscribers, and you have interesting content.
- Friends — the post with this access mode will be visible only to the people closest to you, those who are on your list of friends.
- Private — this mode will be helpful when you require saving something and don’t want others to see it, or plan to make the post available for others to view later.
How to change privacy settings for already uploaded video
Once you understand the types of settings, let’s move on to how to configure them. In order to change the settings for others to access an already uploaded video, you need to:
- First, go to the video for which access type you want to change.
- After going to the video, look for the triple dot in the corner of the screen.
- Once you click the three dots, a menu window will appear. There, find the “Privacy Settings” section.
- Next, go to “Who can view this video”.
- Select one of the available privacy settings options.
How to change privacy settings for video before uploading it
If you want to change your video viewing preferences before uploading a video, follow these steps:
- On the posting page, click “Who can view this video”.
- Select one of the available privacy settings options.
- Save the settings for the changes to take effect.
How to restrict access to comments for all videos
If you do want to restrict access to comments only, and not videos, here’s how you can set up access to them by default:
- First, open the “Me” section.
- Find the three dots and click on them.
- Find the “Privacy” option there.
- Select “Who can comment on your videos” from the available features.
- Select one of the available options.
When posting, to include comments, you must select “Allow comments”. If you don’t want to include them, just select “Allow comments” on the publish page.
How to restrict access to comments for one video
If you want to disable comments on just one video do the following:
- Navigate to the video where you want to disable comments.
- Once you’ve navigated to the video, look for the triple dot in the corner of the screen
- Navigate to the privacy settings.
- Enable or disable “Allow Comments”.
