How to turn comments on or off on your TikTok videos

When you prepare a TikTok video, you can decide whether it gets comments and who can leave them. Here’s where to choose the audience and change the switch for each post, with the age-related conditions to check.

Choose who can comment on your posts

TikTok sets comment options by age. For ages 13 to 15, Friends can’t be changed, though comments can be turned off on an individual post. For ages 16 to 17, a private account starts with Followers and can be changed to Friends; a public account starts with Everyone and can be changed to Friends. In both cases, comments can be turned off for an individual post. Family Pairing and local laws can also affect available settings. If you manage an account for someone under 18, review TikTok’s teen privacy and safety settings.

For adult accounts, TikTok documents these options: Everyone for public accounts, Followers for private accounts, and Friends, meaning followers you follow back. The individual post’s switch also needs to allow comments for that group to comment.

In the TikTok app:

1. Tap Profile at the bottom.
2. Tap Menu ☰, then Settings and privacy.
3. Tap Privacy, then Comments.
4. Tap Allow comments from and choose an available option.

Turn comments on or off for a video

Before you post: create your post, then tap More options on the Post screen. Turn Allow comments on or off for that video.

For a posted video: open the video from your profile, tap More options, then tap Privacy settings. You may need to swipe to find it. Turn Allow comments on or off.

To check your choice, return to the video’s Privacy settings and review Allow comments. You can use the same control to change it again. The audience selected in your comment settings still determines who can comment while the switch is on.

This setting controls who can comment. To hide comments based on words or filters, see how to filter TikTok comments. Video privacy controls who can view it and is set separately.

TikTok’s help on managing comments covers the available options and post-level steps.