TikTok has added some new DM options, together with the capability to ship minute-long voice notes, in addition to expanded picture and video sharing, each for one-on-one messaging and group chats.
First off, on audio messages. Now, TikTok customers have the choice to create minute-long audio clips from their composer choices, by holding down on the microphone icon alongside the textual content field.
The method gives a easy UI for recording and sending audio messages, however watch out, as a result of as quickly as you launch the microphone button, you’ll ship that audio as a message.
As defined by TikTok:
“Whereas recording a voice message, you possibly can select to:
- Launch the document button to ship
- Swipe throughout to delete the recording
- Swipe as much as lock the recording and proceed to document with out urgent and holding, then faucet the Ship button to ship or the Delete button to discard.”
So there’s a substitute for the instant ship as quickly as you launch the button, whereas you may as well delete a voice message inside 3 minutes of sending it.
It may very well be a fast and simple method so as to add extra character, or reply shortly to a DM, providing you with extra choices for direct communication.
It additionally brings TikTok’s DM aspect extra into line with messaging instruments in different apps, and with an increasing number of folks participating by way of personal messages, it may very well be a helpful addition.
TikTok’s additionally giving customers the choice to ship as much as 9 photos or movies as attachments to your DMs, both by deciding on them out of your digicam roll, or capturing them with the TikTok digicam.
Which is one other measure that can convey TikTok’s messaging instruments extra into others in the marketplace, and given the rising recognition of messaging as a connection possibility, that makes a whole lot of sense.
As famous by TechCrunch, TikTok has additionally added a key security characteristic, with customers unable to ship a picture or video as their preliminary message request. TikTok DMs are additionally not accessible to customers underneath 16 in any respect, and together, these restrictions ought to scale back dangerous misuse of DMs.
In broader phrases, these are pretty minor options, which most customers would now anticipate in DM parts. As such, they align with broader utilization shifts, and TikTok’s been regularly constructing out its messaging choices to satisfy this demand. Over the previous yr, TikTok’s additionally added group chats, broadcast channels for model profiles, and DMs throughout live-streams.
These new updates present extra capability on this entrance, which may see extra folks conducting extra engagement exercise within the app.
