How to Turn off Comments on TikTok

Have you recently noticed an influx of unnecessary or unwanted comments on your TikTok videos?

It could be that your video has been picked up by bot or spam accounts – or perhaps that your video is being targeted by trolls.

Either way, turning off comments on your TikTok videos is easier than you might think.

2 Steps to Turn off Comments on New Videos

1. When you have created your video, just before sharing it to the app you will be invited to create a caption, tag other users, and control who can see your video
2. Next to the button which reads ‘Allow Comments’, make sure that the toggle is switched to Off

This will prevent anyone from being able to leave a comment on a new video that you post.

But if you forget to do this and share your video with commenting open and accessible, there is still something you can do to reverse the issue…

3 Steps to Turn off Comments on an Existing Video

1. Navigate to your profile page on TikTok and select the video that you want to turn off comments for
2. Click on the menu button underneath the comment icon, and find the ‘Privacy Settings’ for the video
3. Turn commenting off by changing the toggle to the ‘Off’ position

And voila! Your video will now block all new comments.

Turn off Comments on All Videos

There is a third option available, and it’s one which is operated at profile level – preventing any comments from being added to videos that you upload for the foreseeable future.

To switch off comments on all videos that you post, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to your profile page on TikTok
2. Click on the menu button in the top right hand corner, indicated by the three horizontal lines icon
3. Select ‘Settings and Privacy’ then ‘Comments’
4. In the section which asks you who can comment on your videos, select ‘No one’ (if you want to turn off all comments). You can also limit comments to friends only, or filter comments so that only those comments that you approve are made visible on your video

This is considered the best way of altering your profile so that comments are either controlled by you or blocked completely.

Happy posting!