TikTok gives everyone more control over what’s on their For You page

TikTok is expanding Manage Topics, a diagnostic that lets you customize however often contented successful the platform’s apical 10 categories surfaces successful your feed, similar sports, travel, humor, originative arts, and dance. After rolling retired a pilot successful the US past year, TikTok spokesperson Jessica Allen confirmed to The Verge that it’s present launching globally.

TikTok says the settings “won’t destruct topics entirely, but tin power however often they’re recommended arsenic your interests germinate implicit time.” Once you set them, TikTok says it “might instrumentality immoderate time” for the changes to spell into effect. Manage topics besides lone interaction the videos shown connected your For You provender – not anyplace other connected the platform.

To personalize the topics successful your feed, caput to your settings and prime Content preferences > Manage topics. You tin besides entree the enactment by tapping the Share fastener connected a station successful your For You feed, hitting Why this video > Adjust your For You > Manage Topics. From there, you tin determination a slider beneath each topic, indicating however often you privation to spot related videos, and deed Save.

Along with this setting’s wider rollout, TikTok is expanding connected its keyword filters that artifact topics from appearing successful your feed. The level is present utilizing AI for “smart” keyword filters to not lone artifact the circumstantial keyword you enter, but besides restrict contented with captions, hashtags, oregon descriptions containing related words. TikTok volition amusement the different keywords that it’s blocking, and volition besides springiness you the quality to prime oregon deselect words “in the months to come.” The level besides plans connected supporting much than 200 keywords per user, up from 100.