What does Connected to You mean on TikTok? TikTok \/ Flickr: Aaron YooTikTok users have started to notice a symbol popping up for certain videos that simply says \u2018Connected to You\u2019 \u2013 but what does it actually mean? While TikTok is still a relatively fresh app to the wider world, there are certain facets of the app that people simply don\u2019t understand, whether they\u2019ve been using it since launch or are new to the platform. One of these is the \u2018Connected to You\u2019 symbol that occasionally pops up on certain videos, and while many choose to just ignore it, it\u2019s definitely raised some questions from various users. There\u2019s a lot of terminology unique to the platform that isn\u2019t immediately obvious, such as comparisons between \u2018Alt\u2019 and \u2018Straight\u2019 Tiktok, but Connected to You is much more simple to understand. What is Connected to You on TikTok? It essentially means that you know the person in one way or another \u2013 here\u2019s how it finds out. If someone\u2019s video has the \u2018Connected to You\u2019 symbol planted in the bottom left corner of the screen, it most likely means that you have that person\u2019s number saved in your device, or vice versa. It seems to be an effort from the platform to bring people together and help keep up to date with what your friends are doing on TikTok, but some users are complaining about it as it ruins their anonymity on the app, or because they simply have no connection to the user in question. tiktok putting irls on my fyp with the \u201cconnected to you\u201d feature feels like an act of violence \u2014 crystal (@girlmuses) May 14, 2020 The rollout of the connected to you feature seems to have been a slow one, but more and more people are now seeing it pop up, so it seems as though it will be a permanent fixture on the app going forward. \u2018Connected to You\u2019 allegedly only appears for users who have linked their phone number to their TikTok account, so if you haven\u2019t already, it\u2019s likely you won\u2019t see the feature at all, especially as it hasn\u2019t yet rolled out globally at the time of writing. Obviously, if you don\u2019t have your phone number connected to the app, you have nothing to worry about, but you might want to consider unlinking your number altogether if this is going to be a major concern for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What does Connected to You mean on TikTok? TikTok \/ Flickr: Aaron YooTikTok users have started to notice a symbol popping up for certain videos that simply says \u2018Connected to You\u2019 \u2013 but what does it actually mean? While TikTok is still a relatively fresh app to the wider world, there are certain facets of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}