TikTok customers will quickly have the ability to ...

TikTok is taking one other step in the direction of changing into greater than only a platform for infinitely scrolling by means of brief movies. The social media app informed TechCrunch that its customers will quickly have the ability to ship voice notes, pictures and movies in direct messages or group chats. In accordance with a TikTok spokesperson, these options will roll out within the subsequent few weeks.

As voice messaging has risen in popularity, TikTok will embrace the development however is capping the size of its voice notes to 1 minute. For pictures and movies, customers will have the ability to ship as much as 9 pictures or movies, taken from their telephone’s digital camera app or library, in a DM or group chat, in accordance with TechCrunch. The report added that there’ll nonetheless be guardrails with this new chat characteristic, together with not having the ability to ship a picture or video as the primary message to a different consumer. This new restriction provides to TikTok’s present guidelines that solely permit registered customers who’re not less than 16 years previous to make use of its messaging characteristic. TikTok can be giving customers who’re older than 18 the flexibility to toggle on or off an present characteristic that routinely detects and blocks pictures which have nudity in chats for customers between 16 and 18 years previous.

Different messaging apps like Messenger and Snapchat already permit their customers to ship voice notes or media, however TikTok is slowly catching up with the competitors. Final 12 months, TikTok added group chats that permit as much as 32 individuals. Extra lately, TikTok took a web page out of X and Meta’s e book by including the Footnotes feature in April, which works equally to Neighborhood Notes.