How to Delete Messages on your Personal TikTok Account – Android and iOS

TikTok today is one of the most used social networks; The short videos that the platform shows in its for you section can make you get hooked for hours, whether you watch humorous content, controversy, sports content, or history.

Like any social network, on TikTok you can send messages with your followers or the people you follow through the private application. When you open a chat with the user you are talking to, all the messages that are sent are saved in the conversation, as many TikToks that are shared, as anything else that is written.

However, both private TikToks and messages from each chat can be deleted, and just that we will teach you this time, are you ready? Go for it.

How to view the message tray to classify those that will be deleted?

In TikTok you have a section where all the private messages that have been sent to your account appear. To access it, logically you need enter TikTok first, either from your Android mobile or from the application on iPhone.

From the Android application

To enter TikTok on your Android mobile you must first download the application from the Google Play Store. When you already have it installed on your phone, you must log in to your TikTok profile. Once in your account, you will notice that the first thing that appears is the “For you” section, but at the bottom, there will be a strip with different options; to enter your private messages You must first go to the “Inbox” section.

When all the activity of your profile appears, you will have to click on the icon of the paper plane that will be in the upper right corner, and after that, You will have entered your private message box.

With the iOS app

The process for enter your inbox on TikTok on IOS devices it is the same as on Android mobiles. Enter the application first, go to the inbox section, click on the paper plane icon in the upper right corner and you’re done; You will have already entered your TikTok messages.

What is the way to delete multiple messages at the same time?

Unfortunately today it does not exist a way you can delete multiple messages from a TikTok conversation. The only option you have left in this topic is to delete the messages one by one, or outright delete the entire conversation.

How can you delete a message so that it does not reach the recipient?

In TikTok there is the option to delete a message once you have sent it. The message as such does not stop reaching its recipient, because if it does, but if you are lucky enough to delete the message before the person sees itbecause they will never find out that you sent it.

Be that as it may, we are going to show you below how you can delete a message on TikTok so that the recipient does not know that you have sent it to them.

From the saved messages section

In TikTok you can like the messages that some user sends you. That is a very good way in which you can “save” what they have written to you, because although as such the messages are not saved, having the symbol of the like that you have given, in a certain way you will make it stand out in your chat and so you can find it easier.

This type of TikTok messages can also be deleted, and you just have to enter the chat, look for the message with the like, click on it and select the delete option.

Directly from your contact’s chat

When you enter a chat with a TikTok contact of yours, you have the option to delete any messages you have sent. As we described in the previous point, you just have to press and hold on the message in question and select the delete option to be able to delete the message.

When a message is deleted on TikTok for the recipient, is it also deleted?

Previously we told you that in the social network TikTok when you delete a message that you have sent, this will be deleted both in your chat, as in the other person’s conversation.

What’s up with this? If the recipient of the message has already seen it, then the person will know what you have said. However, the fact that the message has been read does not mean that if you delete it, it will continue to appear in the other person’s conversation, since anyway will also be removed.

Why doesn’t the TikTok app allow you to delete a message?

There are some reasons why TikTok does not allow you to delete a message that you have sent and we will comment on them below.

The contact blocked you from their TikTok

Yes one person who was your contact on TikTok blocks you and you want to delete a message from the conversation you had with that person, you may not be able to do it.

This is because the moment you are going to delete the message you will be making a modification in the conversation that both your chat and your contact’s will suffer. If this has blocked you, then TikTok will not be able to make the change when deleting the message, so it will not let you delete it outright.

Internet failures

Having a bad internet connection could cause your message on TikTok is not deleted because the application has no connection to make the change you are making in the conversation.