How to activate TikTok notifications on iPhone and control what I receive

TikTok is a short video application, which went viral around the year 2020, when we began the quarantines due to COVID-19, which was a great tool for people to entertain themselves. Since it offers a wide variety of filters and audio that you can use in your videos, in this way you can appear in the TikTok for you option.

However, this only allowed you to make videos of up to 60 seconds , but all this changed around the year 2021, when it incorporated the new function that was to be able to create videos of up to 3 minutes.

How to activate TIKTOK notifications on IPHONE and control what I receive

Now, TikTok also has some plus notification options, that is, it notifies you when the user you follow posts a video or when they send you a direct message, it is for this reason that today we are going to teach how to configure these notifications. 

Index( )

  1. What are the types of notifications and how to activate them on TikTok?
    1. from inbox
    2. push notifications
  2. How to enable TikTok post notifications on iPhone?
  3. How to handle notifications received on iPhone from TikTok?
    1. Notifications of Interactions/messages
    2. If they are from Video/LIVE Updates
  4. Why am I not getting notifications from TikTok and how to fix it?

What are the types of notifications and how to activate them on TikTok?

In order to know what are the types of notifications that TikTok has, you must first have the TikTok application downloaded on your phone and be registered in said application , now we are going to tell you what notifications it has.

from inbox

In the TikTok inbox, you will receive notifications of people   who have liked your videos or comments, it also notifies you when a person follows you, has left a comment on your video , mentions from other users and when you they send a message.

So in that inbox you can see what ‘s new in TikTok , such as Live’s recommendations, challenges like the Flying Challenge, which consists of making videos as if you were flying, which went viral.

push notifications

Push notifications allow you to receive all kinds of notifications that the input flag reaches you, so configuring those notifications is very important if you want to avoid certain notifications on your phone. To be able to do this, you simply have to enter the application and go to the part where it says profile.

After you are in your profile, you will give the three lines in the upper right part , later you will click on settings and configuration, then you will look for the push notifications option, when you are here you will notice that you will find several options with the green pimps and others are gray pimps.

Which indicate which notifications can reach your inbox , so if you want to control the notifications that reach your inbox you must deactivate those functions that are activated in push notifications, or failing that, activate them, what do you want them to do? Some other features appear.

How to control the notification of direct messages to your account, receive notification when your favorite artist uploads a video among many others.

How to enable TikTok post notifications on iPhone?

In order to enable TikTok notifications when a person publishes a video, the first thing you must do is enter the TikTok application, then you will go to your profile and in the upper right part, so you will proceed to touch the three dots.

Once you click there, you will click settings and privacy , then you will look for the push notifications option, when you are in this option, you will notice that you will find, as in Android, some functions with green arrows and others gray ones, which which indicates that the green arrows are the notifications that you have enabled and the gray ones are the ones that are disabled.

Therefore, you should check which of the green notifications you want to disable and which of the gray notifications you want to enable, in this way you will have a good management of the notifications that come to your phone and you will not have to deal with annoying notifications for you.

In turn, you can with these options be aware of all the videos that the person you are interested in uploads and which you can download and save on your phone , to later share it on your social networks.

How to handle notifications received on iPhone from TikTok?

Apart from push notifications, from your own iPhone you can control the notifications that come to your phone; One of them is by entering your phone’s settings and then you will go to the TikTok application.

When you are here, you will look for the option the options that you have enabled for this application and you will deactivate the notifications in this way , the notifications from TikTok will not reach your phone, moreover, if you want to configure that specific notifications appear, you must follow with the following steps:

Notifications of Interactions/messages

As we mentioned before, push notifications are the ones that help you select what type of notifications you want to appear on your phone, one of these modifications is that of messages, which you can both enable and disable, in this way you can control the message receipt notifications on TikTok.

If they are from Video/LIVE Updates

In this same way, push notifications also help you select if you want LIVE recommendations to appear, in turn it also gives you the list of people you follow, to later notify tiktok, that you want it to notify you when those people are transmitting live.

Why am I not getting notifications from TikTok and how to fix it?

On many occasions, TikTok notifications do not reach you, because surely in push notifications, you will not have enabled these notifications to reach you, so to solve this, you must verify which notifications you have activated in push notifications  and if said notification is deactivated proceed to enable it in this way the notifications that you did not receive before will be received.