Tiktok continues to take over mobile: The Chinese video app is adding group chats with support for up to 32 people, the company announced.
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The feature is available to users aged 16 and over, and allows them to share content with friends and family without opening a separate messaging app. Meanwhile, the company will allow users to create personal stickers.
The group chat will allow, as in competing applications, to chat with the participants in the group at the same time, to share videos and comments on those videos in real time. As mentioned, the group chat will not be available to users under the age of 16.
You can start a group chat by selecting the Inbox button, tapping Chat, selecting the friends you want to include, and clicking “Start Group Chat.” But you can only join a group chat if you are invited by people you followed back. Also, if you don’t allow anyone on the platform to send you a message, you won’t receive a chat invitation at all.
The rules are slightly different for teens under 18: they will only be able to join a group chat if it contains at least one person who follows them back. Teens who create a group chat must also manually review and approve people who join.
Although TikTok disabled direct messages, DMs, for users under the age of 16 back in 2020, it later allowed everyone else on the app the ability to receive messages from all users. In addition to the group chats, TikTok also allows you to create personalized stickers that users 18 and older can upload to the platform.
The new feature is designed to “capture” Tiktok users, and prevent them from switching to other apps that allow group chat such as WhatsApp, Telegram or Messenger to share the Tiktok video they found.