If you’ve ever grown tired of a TikTok sound and don’t want to see it on your For You Page anymore, or if you don’t like a viral trend associated with it, there are a few measures you can bring in to control it from appearing in your feed.
‘Sounds’ are a key component of many of TikTok’s most popular videos, serving as the inspiration for countless trends. Sounds can be snippets of popular songs, or they can be audio clips from interviews or viral memes found outside of TikTok.
However, you may witness that much of the content on your For You Page uses the same sound, which can become repetitive. Alternatively, certain audios may be associated with harmful or potentially disturbing trends, so you may wish to remove them from your feed. But how are you going to do it?
Do you want to know how to block a sound on TikTok? If so, this guide will direct you. This guide will also tell you how to do it on most mobile operating systems, including iOS and Android devices. We’ve described two methods for blocking sounds, and you can use either one. Let’s get right to it!
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Is it possible to block a sound on TikTok?
Yes, you can block or prevent a song or sound from appearing in your feed again. You must restrict the sound or song by selecting “not interested.” Scroll down to find out how to silence a sound on TikTok.
Nothing compares to getting lost in the TikTok void. While you’re unlikely to see the same video twice, you can’t say the same for popular sounds and fads. Some trends have become so popular that it appears that you hear the same song or track on every TikTok. Remember that you don’t have to put up with any trend you dislike.
TikTok has a simple, albeit hidden, way of blocking distinguishing audio tracks from your For You feed. Simply long-press on a video in your feed, tap “More,” and tap “Hide videos with this sound.” TikTok will bounce to the following video in For You, removing the one with the sound you blocked and any other videos that used that sound.
Remember that hiding content only applies to the audio file you hid. That song or sound clip could have been uploaded hundreds of times by other users, so you’ll have to hide those as well as they appear.
How to block a sound on TikTok?
As you know, on TikTok, you can block a sound, so knowing how to block a TikTok sound is extremely useful. Because you may find a particular sound triggering or have heard it many times and not want to hear it again. It’s also a very simple procedure. You can try one of two separate methods to block a sound.
Method 1
The first method’s initial steps are as follows:
Launch the TikTok app
To begin, open the TikTok app and log in or switch to the account you want the sound turned off.
Locate the TikTok sound you want to disable
Second, locate the TikTok sound you want to block. There are several ways to locate the sound or video:
- TikTok search for the video using the keywords from the video description.
- Search in TikTok for the sound, then filter the results for “Sounds.”
- Scroll through your For You Page (FYP) until the sound appears again.
- Navigate to the profile of a TikTok user who you know has previously used the sound.
- Look for a hashtag commonly associated with the sound, and then scroll through the videos with that hashtag.
To search for a video, sound, or user on TikTok, tap on “Friends,” which has two people as an icon, and there is a search bar at the top of the Friends page.
Once you’ve located the sound or video, tap on it at the bottom of the video in which it was used.
Then you’ll be taken to the Sound page, where you can view all of the TikTok videos using sound.
Report the sound
Then, go to the top right of the sound page and look for the Share icon, which appears like an arrow pointing to the right. Press the button.
A menu will now appear at the bottom of your screen. You will see a “Report sound” option with a flag icon.
You must tap on the Report button to access the “Report” menu. “Other” will be the last option on the menu. Select “Other.”
Disable the TikTok sound
You must now choose a reason. “I’m not interested in this content,” you should select.”
This will generate a report informing you that you disliked the video and sound.
You should also follow the next set of instructions!
Method 2
The steps for the second method are as follows:
- Launch the TikTok app.
To begin, open the TikTok app and ensure that you are logged in or switched to the account you want to block the sound on.
- Navigate to the TikTok For You Page.
Second, navigate to the TikTok For You Page (FYP).
To access the FYP, tap the Home button in the bottom left corner of TikTok.
- Scroll down the FYP page until you find the sound you want to block
Scroll down the FYP page until you hear or see the sound you want to block. Unfortunately, you cannot use this method to search for the sound and block it. Once you’ve located the sound, proceed to the next step.
- Turn off the sound on TikTok
Once you’ve found the video, place your finger anywhere on the video’s screen. Then a menu with a few options will appear. With the broken heart icon, select “Not interested.”
This tells TikTok that you do not want to hear this sound in videos.
You may hear the sound again on TikTok, in which case you must repeat the process of marking the video/sound as “Not interested” so that TikTok understands you want this sound blocked.
Repeat the above process each time you see the sound, and the algorithm should learn that you don’t want to see content associated with the sound and show you less of it.
Takeaway
As you know, TikTok is an online video-sharing social networking service. Individuals can add 3 to 15-second music and lip-sync videos, as well as 3 to 60-second looping videos, to their videos. They could share life hacks, facts, dances, and recipes.
We hope you now understand how to block a sound on TikTok! If you continue to hear the sound, you should contact TikTok to see if there is anything they can do internally to help you. Visit TikTok’s contact page.
