TikTok is one of the most used social media throughout the whole world today mostly by the young for their video skit and some other purpose. with this, users need to know how to hide their following list on TikTok. Below is how to hide your following list on TikTok.
Your following list on TikTok is used to display a set or list of users that you are following on TikTok.
In case you set your profile to “public”, which means every TikTok user will be able to see your following list on TikTok. And at the same time, users can see someone else’s following list by checking on their profile and clicking on “Following”.
Users must have set their profile to “public” before you will be able to see their following list, or else you will just get an “error” when you click on the user’s following list.
The error message to be displayed will be like, “this user’s Following list is hidden due to their privacy settings”.
Users must have set their profile to “private”, to disable other users to check their Following list.
This article is here to teach us extensively how to hide our following list and followers on TikTok.
How to hide TikTok following list
Hiding the following list on TikTok is done with ease just by navigating through the menu and clicking on “Privacy”.
After that, click on the “Following list” and select “Only me”.
After selecting “Only me” your following list will not be visible to other users. Then if a user clicks on your following list, they will definitely receive an error message because you’ve privatized it, which is not visible to the public.
The error message to be displayed will be like, “this user’s Following list is hidden due to their privacy settings”.
TikTok has made it easy for its users, an easy way to hide their following list through their privacy settings.
This “Following list” can be found under the ‘Safety’ bar.
Every user list is set to “Everyone”, just by default. So, every other user will be able to see the person following list.
Therefore, every user has the right and ability to influence and change the settings of their “Following list” to be private. This will stop other users from seeing your following list on TikTok.
Hiding TikTok following list
Below is the way of hiding your following list on TikTok:
- Go to the “Menu”: the first step is to navigate to the menu. The first thing to do is to log in to your TikTok account or better open one if you don’t have one, then go to your profile, then tap on “ME” on the bottom “navigation bar” to go to your profile. Once your TikTok profile is opened, then navigate to the “Menu” and tap on the menu icon at the top navigation bar located on the right side of the screen (with three short horizontal lines).
- Click on “Privacy”
Immediately after clicking on the “Menu” icon, the page for “Settings and privacy” will be shown.
On this page, there are several options having “ACCOUNT” as the header.
The options include: “Manage account”, “Privacy”, “Security and login”, “Creator tools, “Balance”, “QR code”, and “Share profile”.
Then click on “Privacy” to open your privacy settings in order to set and change who sees your following list.
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Hiding TikTok following list (continues)
- Click on “Privacy settings”
After clicking on “Privacy”, the “Privacy” page will be opened.
The “Privacy” page also has multiple settings that can be changed.
Some of the settings include “Private account”, “Suggest your account to others”, Sync contact and Facebook friends”, and lots more.
Continue scrolling down till the “Safety” header.
Below the “Safety” header, there are also several settings under it that users can change.
Some of the settings include “Download”, “Comment”, “Following list”, and lots more.
Since your intention is to hide your following list, then click on the “Following list”.
- Tap on “Only me”
You will be shown the “Following list” settings after tapping on the “Following list”.
Then click under “who can see your following list” headings, and several options will show up.
Such options are “Only me” and “Everyone”
In case you select the option “Everyone”, this means everyone will have access to seeing your following list if it is set to public.
Also, if you choose the option “Only me”, this means you will be the only one to be seeing your following list while others cannot see it.
But by default, every following list on TikTok is set as “Everyone”
And since you are hoping to hide your following list, then select the “Only me” option.
Selecting this option (“Only me”) makes your following list not visible to others.
And finally, click on the back icon four (4) times to go back to your profile.
Do people know who I Follow on TikTok?
The answer to this is YES and NO.
NO, people can never know who you are following on TikTok if you set your profile to “private”. This means that your following list will not be visible (hidden) to others. And
YES, people can know who you are following on TikTok if your profile is set to “public”.
And also, if you set your following list settings to “Only me”, nobody will have the right of seeing who you follow again except you.
Finally, it is actually always a good idea to hide your following list due to one reason or the other, especially from stalkers.
With this, nobody dare knows who you follow on your TikTok.
But by default, every following list on TikTok is set as “public” (“Everyone”).
But this can be reset to “private” if you don’t want anybody to see your following list.
Also, it can be reset to “Only me”, to hide it from people.
If people try to check on your following list, nothing will show up.
If you already set your TikTok profile to “private”, then you don’t need to reset it again to “Only me”. Because your following list is already hidden as the “private” and “Only me” settings are almost the same.
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