Creating your first TikTok video can be intimidating, but don’t be scared. There’s an easier way to get started with content creation: making slideshows. In less than a minute, you can select photos or videos chosen right from your phone’s camera reel, combine them, and wind up with a professional-looking display of images or clips […]

Almost all of us have playlists, whether they’re on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, or another app. It’s the easiest way to make sure every tune you hear while running, taking a long drive, or doing anything else is a banger. TikTok has playlists too, but they’re not quite the same. They’re used by the […]

Competitive social media platforms used to be really competitive. They were fighting to build their user bases and unless they were owned by the same company, they offered no way for people to easily promote their accounts on other apps. Things have changed. Some platforms (although certainly not all) provide users with the ability to […]

It took a long time for TikTok to introduce “Stories,” short video clips that only live on a user’s feed for 24 hours before they vanish forever. The feature was first seen on Snapchat in the mid-2010s, and it was soon added by other social media platforms. TikTok finally introduced Stories in 2022, and it’s […]

It can be disconcerting to find that an online friend, someone whose TikTok content you’ve regularly enjoyed, or a user who you’ve messaged with in the past, seemingly disappears without a trace. Have they given up on the social media platform? Did something happen to them? Or have they blocked you? The app doesn’t notify […]

Many TikTok users find Live streams to be the most entertaining feature on the social media platform. Any user who’s at least 16 years old and has more than 1,000 TikTok followers can start a Live session at any time, although most like to promote their planned streams in advance to attract as many fans […]