TikTok Expanses Its Direct Message Settings, Free Select Who Can Send DM

New TikTok DM settings display (photo: TikTok)

JAKARTA - TikTok has expanded its Direct Message Settings (DM) to all users. This update allows you to get more privacy about who can send messages.

"We have expanded the Direct Message settings to give you a choice from who you want to receive DM. The choice of DM now is: everyone, the suggested friends, co-followers, people you have sent messages to, or no one else," TikTok said in a shared announcement. met by The Information.

The DM option "All People" means that anyone can send you a direct message. Be it messages from friends together and people you follow will appear in your Inbox.

In addition, you will also get messages from people you don't follow in the Message Request section. In this section, you can choose to receive, delete, or report these messages.

Second, the "Alleged friend" option is that you will receive messages from friends suggested by TikTok, including Facebook friends who are synchronized and friends from phone contacts.

While the "Friendly paling" option means, whoever follows you and you follow that person too, can send you a direct message.

Then the last option, namely "No one", allows you not to be able to receive direct messages from anyone, be it your friends, or suggested accounts.

It should be noted that if you update the message suit directly to "No one," you will not be able to receive direct messages.

However, you can still access the message history in the Inbox, but you can't receive new direct messages in the chat.