The Safety heading is where you will find settings that are meant to protect your data. Who doesn’t? Enabling this option will allow TikTok to use its recommendation engine to show your account videos to those who are showing an interest in similar content. That is useful if you want to gain followers on TikTok. The second option is the Suggest your account to others. TikTok clarifies right there that users already following you won’t notice any difference. Enabling that will force everyone to send you a follow request, much like on Instagram, before they can view videos uploaded or liked by you. There are many options, so let’s tackle them individually. Go back to the previous screen and select Privacy and safety this time. I would also recommend a password change at this point to make sure this doesn’t happen again. You can contact support or log out of all devices that you don’t recognize here. For example, if someone is trying to access your account without your permission or all the devices that are currently logged in to your TikTok account.
You will see alerts from TikTok if they feel something is off or out of place. You will see some basic profile information here like email ID, mobile number, password, and most importantly, Security. Open the app, and under the Me tab, tap on the three-dot menu to access Settings.