TikTok has added some new DM options, together with the capability to ship minute-long voice notes, in addition to expanded picture and video sharing, each for one-on-one messaging and group chats.

First off, on audio messages. Now, TikTok customers have the choice to create minute-long audio clips from their composer choices, by holding down on the microphone icon alongside the textual content field.

The method offers a easy UI for recording and sending audio messages, however watch out, as a result of as quickly as you launch the microphone button, you’ll ship that audio as a message.

As defined by TikTok:

“Whereas recording a voice message, you possibly can select to:

• Launch the document button to ship
• Swipe throughout to delete the recording
• Swipe as much as lock the recording and proceed to document with out urgent and holding, then faucet the Ship button to ship or the Delete button to discard.”

So there may be an alternative choice to the instant ship as quickly as you launch the button, whereas you can even delete a voice message inside 3 minutes of sending it.

It may very well be a fast and straightforward method so as to add extra persona, or reply shortly to a DM, supplying you with extra choices for direct communication.

It additionally brings TikTok’s DM factor extra into line with messaging instruments in different apps, and with increasingly folks participating by way of personal messages, it may very well be a useful addition.

TikTok’s additionally giving customers the choice to ship as much as 9 photos or movies as attachments to your DMs, both by deciding on them out of your digital camera roll, or capturing them with the TikTok digital camera.

Which is one other measure that may convey TikTok’s messaging instruments extra into others in the marketplace, and given the rising recognition of messaging as a connection possibility, that makes loads of sense.

As famous by TechCrunch, TikTok has additionally added a key security function, with customers unable to ship a picture or video as their preliminary message request. TikTok DMs are additionally not accessible to customers below 16 in any respect, and together, these restrictions ought to cut back dangerous misuse of DMs.

In broader phrases, these are pretty minor options, which most customers would now count on in DM components. As such, they align with broader utilization shifts, and TikTok’s been progressively constructing out its messaging choices to satisfy this demand. Over the previous 12 months, TikTok’s additionally added group chats, broadcast channels for model profiles, and DMs throughout live-streams.

These new updates present extra capability on this entrance, which might see extra folks conducting extra engagement exercise within the app.