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| TikTok is improving its messaging settings with new options |
Short video service TikTok has expanded direct messaging settings, allowing users to choose who they want to receive messages from.
With the new changes, users now have four options: Everyone, Suggested Friends, Friends, or Nobody.
Prior to the change, which was first reported by The Information, TikTok restricted the ability to receive direct messages with friends.
The official TikTok website states that if you select the Everyone option, anyone can message you directly, messages from people you follow and unfollow or people you follow will be saved in your inbox, and messages from you that you don't follow will remain in message requests where you can accept, delete, or report them about her.
And when you select the Suggest a friend option, it means that suggested friends, including your Facebook friends and synced phone contacts, can message you directly.
Mutual friends means that anyone you follow can send you a private message.
The "Nobody" option means that you will not receive private messages from anyone on the platform. TikTok warns that you can still access your message history in your inbox, but you won't receive direct messages in these chats.
To change your direct message settings, you can tap your profile icon at the bottom of the TikTok home screen, tap the menu button at the top, select Settings and privacy, and then tap Privacy. From there, you need to select Direct Messages where you can choose who can send you direct messages.
The new changes to TikTok mark the latest move to expand its social capabilities on its platform as it seeks to compete with Instagram's Mita photo and video sharing service.
In May last year, TikTok launched a new Friends tab that replaced the old Discovery tab and attempted to offer a new way to recommend content based on a user's actual friendship.
Last September, TikTok introduced a version of its (BeReal) feature called (TikTok Now), which asks users to post content at a specific time each day in exchange for searching for posts made by friends.