TikTok recently launched an interesting new feature. This is a feature where you can refresh or reset your For You feed if you feel that the recommendations no longer match what you want to see.
TikTok remains under heavy fire. That criticism is partly about privacy and espionage. For example, the popular Chinese application is being banned on work phones of government employees in more and more countries. This is the case, for example, in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Belgium. In the United States, there is even talk of banning the app completely.
For You-feed
Another point of criticism is the content on TikTok. For example, the For You feed was already adjusted at the end of 2021 so that users see less harmful videos. Recently, the app also limits the screen time of underage users.
Now TikTok has made another adjustment to that oft-criticized For You-feed. It adds the ability to completely start over on that page. This new feature comes because many people complain about the fact that there is not enough variety to see on their For You feed. Whoever resets or refreshes that page will see TikTok just as if he, she or they are logging in to the application for the first time. This way you will first see the most popular videos and the algorithm will then start adapting the content to your behavior again.
This is how you can reset your For You on TikTok:
- Open your profile.
- Click on the three lines at the top right.
- Open ‘Settings and privacy’.
- Click on ‘Content Preferences’.
- Click on ‘Refresh your For You feed’ and confirm that choice. If that option is not yet visible, you have to be patient and regularly update your application. TikTok may take a while to roll out the new feature to all users.
