TikTok customers will quickly have the ability to ship voice notes, photographs and movies in chats

TikTok is taking one other step in direction of changing into greater than only a platform for infinitely scrolling by way of brief movies. The social media app informed TechCrunch that its customers will quickly have the ability to ship voice notes, photographs and movies in direct messages or group chats. Based on a TikTok spokesperson, these options will roll out within the subsequent few weeks.

As voice messaging has risen in popularity, TikTok will embrace the pattern however is capping the size of its voice notes to 1 minute. For photographs and movies, customers will have the ability to ship as much as 9 photographs or movies, taken from their cellphone’s digicam app or library, in a DM or group chat, in response to TechCrunch. The report added that there’ll nonetheless be guardrails with this new chat function, together with not with the ability to ship a picture or video as the primary message to a different person. This new restriction provides to TikTok’s present guidelines that solely enable registered customers who’re no less than 16 years outdated to make use of its messaging function. TikTok can also be giving customers who’re older than 18 the flexibility to toggle on or off an current function that mechanically detects and blocks photographs which have nudity in chats for customers between 16 and 18 years outdated.

Different messaging apps like Messenger and Snapchat already enable their customers to ship voice notes or media, however TikTok is slowly catching up with the competitors. Final yr, TikTok added group chats that enable as much as 32 individuals. Extra lately, TikTok took a web page out of X and Meta’s ebook by including the Footnotes feature in April, which works equally to Group Notes.