TikTok customers will quickly be capable to ship voice notes, photos and movies in chats

TikTok is taking one other step in the direction of turning into greater than only a platform for infinitely scrolling by way of brief movies. The social media app informed TechCrunch that its customers will quickly be capable to ship voice notes, photos and movies in direct messages or group chats. In line 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 photos and movies, customers will be capable to ship as much as 9 photos or movies, taken from their cellphone’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 function, together with not with 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 enable registered customers who’re not less than 16 years previous to make use of its messaging function. TikTok can be giving customers who’re older than 18 the power to toggle on or off an present function that mechanically detects and blocks photos which have nudity in chats for customers between 16 and 18 years previous.

Different messaging apps like Messenger and Snapchat already enable 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 enable as much as 32 individuals. Extra just lately, TikTok took a web page out of X and Meta’s guide by including the Footnotes feature in April, which works equally to Neighborhood Notes.