How to Block on TikTok Guide 2024

TikTok, like any social media platform, can be a mix of great and not-so-great expereinces. If someone is negatively affecting your time on the app, blocking them is a quick and effective way to protect yourself from toxic, spammy, or even abusive accounts. This guide will show you how to block on TikTok, both for mobile and desktop versions. If only blocking jerks were this easy in real life. 

How to Block Someone on TikTok

Learning how to block someone on TikTok is very easy. The steps are similar for both desktop and mobile versions and it’s the same if you want to know how to block someone on TikTok you don’t follow. You just need access to their profile. Here are the steps: 

1. Sign into TikTok
2. Go to the profile of the person you want to block
3. On the upper right of that person’s profile, click or tap the arrow
   
   
4. A menu will pop up on the bottom of your screen. Click or tap the Block option
   
5. Another pop up will appear, this time to let you know the conditions blocking creates and to confirm your decision. Tap or click Block again
   

How to Block in Bulk on TikTok

If you need to know how to block on TikTok for multiple accounts at once, we’ve got you. The situation where you’d most likely need to block in bulk is when you have multiple comments on one of your videos and you want to block these commenters at the same time. Here’s how: 

1. Open the TikTok app
2. Go to your video that has the commenters you want to block
3. Tap Comments
4. Choose a comment and long press on it. A pop up menu will appear
5. Tap Manage multiple comments
   
   
6. Choose the comments from the people you want to block
7. Choose More
8. Choose Block accounts
9. Tap Block

How to See Who is Blocked on TikTok

If you want to know how to see who you blocked on TikTok, it’s very easy. Here’s how: 

1. Sign into your TikTok
2. Tap your Profile
3. Tap the hamburger menu at the top of the screen (it looks like 3 horizontal lines)
4. Select Settings and Privacy
5. Select Privacy
6. Select Blocked Accounts. You should be able to see who you’ve blocked now

What happens when you block people on TikTok?

While knowing how to block on TikTok is useful, here are some tips you should know:

• A blocked account can’t see your posts or interact with you through follows, likes, messages, comments, etc. 
• The blocked account can still see you through multi-host live streams, duets posted by others, chats you both are involved in, etc. 
• When blocking in bulk, you can only block 100 users at one time
• They won’t be informed that they were blocked
• To unblock, just go to the profile of the person you blocked and you’ll see a red unblock button you can tap

FAQs

Why can’t I block on TikTok?

Some possible reasons you can’t block an account include: 

• You can’t find the block button. It used to be accessible through the three dots menu but in 2023 it changed to being accessed by the share button
• You’re having connectivity issues with your phone or PC so TikTok can’t process your request
• You tried to bulk block more than 100 accounts at once
• The app is being buggy. Often, closing out of it and reopening or even rebooting your phone will fix these issues

How can you tell if someone has blocked you on Tik Tok?

There are methods for how to know if someone blocked you on TikTok, but you still need to have specific user accounts you suspect and want to test. Here’s how:  

1.  If you suspect a user has blocked you, try inputting their username or ID. If you know you put it in correctly but it doesn’t show up, you’ve probably been blocked since TikTok keeps you from accessing their profiles once they block you. 
2. If you’ve messaged this person in the past, try looking at your past messages in your inbox. If you see “Account not found,” it means you’re either blocked or they deleted their account. To confirm which, you can try to find them from a separate account to see if their profile still exists.
3. Try looking up the user’s profile on the web instead of the app. If it shows them as having “no content,” you have been blocked. If it shows their profile as “private” it just means they made their profile private and didn’t actually block you.
4. If the user had commented on one of your posts before, their previous comment will be gone if they blocked you.