TikTok is increasing Handle Matters, a function that permits you to customise how typically content material within the platform’s high 10 classes surfaces in your feed, like sports activities, journey, humor, inventive arts, and dance. After rolling out a pilot within the US final 12 months, TikTok spokesperson Jessica Allen confirmed to The Verge that it’s now launching globally.
TikTok says the settings “gained’t remove matters solely, however can affect how typically they’re really useful as your pursuits evolve over time.” When you alter them, TikTok says it “may take a while” for the modifications to enter impact. Handle matters additionally solely impression the movies proven in your For You feed – not anyplace else on the platform.
To personalize the matters in your feed, head to your settings and choose Content material preferences > Handle matters. You may as well entry the choice by tapping the Share button on a publish in your For You feed, hitting Why this video > Alter your For You > Handle Matters. From there, you’ll be able to transfer a slider beneath every matter, indicating how typically you wish to see associated movies, and hit Save.
Together with this setting’s wider rollout, TikTok is increasing on its key phrase filters that block matters from showing in your feed. The platform is now utilizing AI for “sensible” key phrase filters to not solely block the precise key phrase you enter, but additionally prohibit content material with captions, hashtags, or descriptions containing associated phrases. TikTok will present the opposite key phrases that it’s blocking, and also will provide the capability to pick out or deselect phrases “within the months to come back.” The platform additionally plans on supporting greater than 200 key phrases per consumer, up from 100.
