How To Un Dislike A Video On Tiktok

How To Dislike On TikTok — What You Need To Know

TikTok is filled with a ton of content, but not all of it is great. Come across a video you don't like? Here's how to quickly dislike it.

Liking videos on TikTok is something everyone knows how to do — but can the same be said for disliking something on the app? TikTok is home to a wide variety of content. Some of it's funny, other videos are more serious, and a lot of them are incredibly creative. There's a reason TikTok has become as popular as it is, and a lot of that has to do with just how inventive so many of its creators are.

When someone comes across a video on TikTok that they particularly love, the app makes it easy to 'like' it. Just tap the heart button that appears on a video, a small animation plays to indicate it's liked, and the heart turns red. That's all there is to it. People can keep scrolling through videos, tap that heart button on all the ones they like, and that helps train TikTok's algorithm to show better video recommendations on someone's For You page.

While liking TikTok videos is self-explanatory, knowing how to dislike is far less obvious. According to TikTok , disliking a video can be done in a couple of ways. If someone accidentally likes a video that they didn't mean to, they can simply tap the heart button again to remove that like. Users can also go a step further to really let TikTok know they don't like a particular video. While a video is playing, tap and hold on the screen until a pop-up menu appears. Tap 'Not interested,' the video is skipped, and TikTok displays a message that it'll recommend fewer videos like that going forward. Additionally, if someone taps the 'More' option to the right of the 'Not interested' button, there are options to dislike/hide all videos from that user or ones with the sound it's using.

What Happens When You Dislike A Video On TikTok

As with everything someone does in TikTok, disliking videos is used to further train its recommendation algorithms. The more someone likes videos, the better TikTok gets at showing similar ones it thinks they'll enjoy. Similarly, disliking videos helps TikTok understand clips someone doesn't want so it can show less like them in the future. It all comes down to helping make the TikTok experience as personalized as possible, so feel free to take advantage of the dislike option whenever it makes sense.

And for users worried about TikTok creators seeing these dislikes, there's no need to stress over this. The folks behind TikTok videos don't know who's disliked their clips, with TikTok keeping those actions anonymous. The same is true of accidentally liking a video and then re-tapping the heart button to dislike it. It's a small action that will likely go unnoticed by most creators, so don't worry too much about those accidental likes when they happen. Like and dislike videos as you see fit, train the algorithm as much as possible, and it'll do nothing but make TikTok more enjoyable all around.

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Source: TikTok

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Joe has been actively writing and talking about consumer tech since 2012. His biggest passion lies with smartphones, but he's happy to talk your ear off about just about anything with a CPU. He lives in Kalamazoo, MI with his wife, two cats, and pit bull/boxer mix.