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 advised 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 at least one minute. For photographs and movies, customers will have the ability to ship as much as 9 photographs or movies, taken from their cellphone’s digital camera 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 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provides to TikTok’s present guidelines that solely permit registered customers who’re not less than 16 years outdated to make use of its messaging characteristic. TikTok can also be giving customers who’re older than 18 the flexibility to toggle on or off an current characteristic that mechanically detects and blocks photographs which have nudity in chats for customers between 16 and 18 years outdated.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 permit their customers to ship voice notes or media, however TikTok is slowly catching up with the competitors. Final 12 months, TikTok added group chats that permit as much as 32 individuals. Extra just lately, TikTok took a web page out of X and Meta’s e-book by including the Footnotes feature in April, which works equally to Neighborhood Notes.