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

TikTok is taking one other step in the direction of turning into greater than only a platform for infinitely scrolling by quick movies. The social media app instructed TechCrunch that its customers will quickly have the ability to ship voice notes, photographs and movies in direct messages or group chats. In line with 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 line with TechCrunch. The report added that there’ll nonetheless be guardrails with this new chat characteristic, together with not having 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 previous to make use of its messaging characteristic. TikTok can also be giving customers who’re older than 18 the power to toggle on or off an present characteristic that routinely detects and blocks photographs which have nudity in chats for customers between 16 and 18 years previous.

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 folks. Extra lately, TikTok took a web page out of X and Meta’s guide by including the Footnotes feature in April, which works equally to Neighborhood Notes.