One of the latest social networks that have arrived in recent years and have been successful enough to stay afloat is TikTok, a platform of Chinese originAlthough all the management is carried out through an American company, in order to avoid the usual suspicions of the American government.
If you have become fond of this social network and have suddenly lost access to your account, below we show you different steps to be able to recover your TikTok account, as long as you have not carried out any act that the platform qualifies as serious and that automatically entails expulsion from the platform.
How to recover my account on TikTok
I forgot my TikTok username
Many are the platforms that allow users to use other social network accounts to register. If we already have a Facebook or Google account, the process is as quick and easy as enter the details of these accounts and that's it.
The problem is that the platform has access to a huge amount of information about us, so it is preferable to create an independent email account, which is not associated with any other platform. If our device is an iPhone, the best method to not leave a trace on this platform is using the option Continue with Apple.
When you select this option, Apple uses a random email that redirects to our Apple email accountTherefore, when we unsubscribe, that email address is no longer available and we will not receive any communication from this platform again.
If we do not remember our username, we can try each and every one of the access options that the platform makes available to us:
- Continue with Google
- Continue with Facebook
- Continue with Apple
- Continue with Twitter
- Continue with Instagram
If none of these options is valid, we can use our phone number (valid option to register) or perform a search in our email accounts for the word TikTok. In some of them, we will find an email from TikTok. If so, we already have the username.
I forgot my TikTok password
If we do not remember the password, we can regain access to the application, from our own mobile phone or from the website, as long as we know our username. To recover our password from the mobile, we must perform the steps that I show you below:
- The first thing we must do is open the application.
- Next, click on the Login button, located at the bottom of the application.
- In the next window, click on Forgot your password?
- Then 2 options will be shown: Reset password with phone number or email.
- Finally, we have to enter our phone number (if we have registered with it) or the number and the address of the email account to which the account is associated.
- Now, we have to go to the email account or SMS inbox of our device to click on the link that allows us to reset our TikTok password.
This process forces us to write a new password, it will not show us the password we were using so far.
Recover suspended account on TikTok
Like any other social network, to prevent your TikTok account from being suspended by this service, you must comply with the terms of service (yes, those that absolutely nobody reads). In this huge list, TikTok informs us that our account can be suspended for different reasons such as:
- Not having reached the minimum age of 13 years. If you have lied about your age, and the platform finds out, you can forget about your TikTok account. This case is not usual, since when you register, but the age is not required by the service, it will not let you continue.
- Posting inappropriate content. Unlike Instagram, where a simple nipple can endanger the account, these types of images are not taken so seriously on TikTok. However, what you can do is publish any type of content that reaches your hands. Violent videos that incite violence (of all kinds), related to racism, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, serious diseases ... are expressly prohibited in the application.
- Spam the platform. Including external links, using certain words as hashtags or liking each and every one of the publications of the people you follow are grounds for automatic suspension.
- Content related to drugs, weapons, alcohol and tobacco. The representation, promotion or trade of firearms, ammunition, firearm accessories or explosive weapons is not allowed, as is the promotion of drugs or other controlled substances such as tobacco.
- Fraud and gambling. Frauds that invite you to make investments safe to users like the one that invites to promote betting services, they are not allowed on the platform.
- Publish personal data. Needless to say, this is a no-brainer, but it never hurts to remember.
- Inciting suicide, self-harm, or dangerous actsThey are not allowed on the platform, as well as dealing with issues such as eating disorders.
- Harassment and intimidation. Automatically, the platform removes all content with expressions of abuse, threats, humiliation, teasing and intimidation.
These are the main three reasons why TikTok can suspend your account. However, we can also find others of the most varied in the terms of service of this platform, which we can access from this link.
To which practically any other platform, in order to recover our TikTok account, we must contact us via email with the platform. In the case of TikTok the email is antispam@tiktok.com.
In this email, we have to enter our user account and the use you make of this platform. If you have published a large number of content that the platform does not support, we could confirm, without any mistake, that you will not be able to recover your TikTok accountThe only solution being to start from scratch and create a new one.