TikTok is taking one other step in direction of turning into greater than only a platform for infinitely scrolling by way of quick movies. The social media app advised TechCrunch that its customers will quickly be capable to ship voice notes, pictures and movies in direct messages or group chats. Based on a TikTok spokesperson, these options will roll out within the subsequent few weeks.

As voice messaging has risen in popularity, TikTok will embrace the development however is capping the size of its voice notes to 1 minute. For pictures and movies, customers will be capable to ship as much as 9 pictures or movies, taken from their telephone’s digital camera app or library, in a DM or group chat, based on TechCrunch. The report added that there’ll nonetheless be guardrails with this new chat characteristic, together with not with the ability to ship a picture or video as the primary message to a different consumer. This new restriction provides to TikTok’s present guidelines that solely enable registered customers who’re at the least 16 years previous to make use of its messaging characteristic. TikTok can also be giving customers who’re older than 18 the power to toggle on or off an current characteristic that routinely detects and blocks pictures which have nudity in chats for customers between 16 and 18 years previous.

Different messaging apps like Messenger and Snapchat already enable their customers to ship voice notes or media, however TikTok is slowly catching up with the competitors. Final yr, TikTok added group chats that enable as much as 32 individuals. Extra not too long ago, TikTok took a web page out of X and Meta’s e-book by including the Footnotes feature in April, which works equally to Group Notes.