TikTok’s rolling out a new account security dashboard, which will provide a simplified overview of all of your key privacy and safety settings in a single screen.
As you can see in this example, TikTok’s updated account security overview will now make it easier to manage all of your top-level account security elements, including contact info, two-step verification, passkeys (if you’ve activated them) and more.
As explained by TikTok:
“Securing your TikTok account has never been easier. Users can access [the new overview] from their TikTok profile by selecting ‘Settings and privacy’ and tapping ‘Security & permissions’. Once opened, Security Checkup provides a step-by-step guide to key security features designed to keep accounts safe.”
The simplified approach will make it easier to get a full overview of your account details, and update them as you see fit.
TikTok’s added a range of additional account and user safety measures in recent weeks including an updated Family Pairing center, which gives parents more oversight of their child’s account activity, as well as a new Digital Safety and Privacy Guide, which it launched last month.
The added security measures could be part of a broader effort to reassure American users in particular, in regards to the safety of the app. Currently, TikTok is technically banned in the U.S., under the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act”, which was implemented due to concerns around the way in which the app could be used by foreign entities to target U.S. citizens.
The Trump Administration is working on a deal that will enable the app to remain in operation, while meeting the requirements of the act, but it has also led to broader P.R. issues for the app, with many now concerned about the potential implications of using it.
As such, more security measures could work to reassure people that their account info is safe, and that they remain in control of key elements.
Either way, improved security is a good thing, and now, users have easier access to TikTok’s various account control tools.
