Each platform needs to be the place you grasp with mates — even Spotify as of this week — so it’s apparently time for TikTok to shore up its direct messaging function! It advised TechCrunch that over the following few weeks, all customers ought to see voice messages and picture sharing choices arrive of their DMs.
(They received’t present up for accounts that may’t DM to start with, after all — “Direct Messaging is barely obtainable to accounts 16 years and older which implies these options are solely obtainable to these accounts,” TikTok spokesperson JaShel Jones clarifies to The Verge.)
I checked, and positive sufficient, I can ship each, in addition to movies as much as one minute lengthy (although that final has been potential for some time). Beware that for those who maintain down on the microphone button to begin a recording, you’ll robotically ship that recording as quickly as you let go, so you should definitely drag it up or left if you need an opportunity to cancel!
You’re restricted to sending as much as 9 pictures (and movies) at a time, and each voice memos and movies can’t be greater than a minute lengthy.
Replace, August twenty ninth: Added TikTok clarification about who can DM and who can not.
