If you’re looking to unfollow people on TikTok, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll guide you through the process step-by-step, whether you’re using the TikTok app or the desktop website.
To start unfollowing people on TikTok, head to your Following feed. On the app, tap on the ‘Following’ tab at the top of your screen. If you’re using TikTok on your computer, you’ll find the ‘Following’ section in the menu on the left-hand side of the screen.
Once you’re in your Following feed, swipe until you find a video from the account you want to unfollow. Alternatively, if you remember the account’s name, you can use the search function at the top of the screen to look for it.
Once you’ve found the account you want to unfollow, tap on their username at the bottom of the video. This will take you to their profile page.
On the user’s profile page, tap on the button that features a person-like icon underneath the Likes count. This will unfollow the account.
If you did this by mistake, don’t worry! Simply press the ‘Follow’ button to re-follow the account.
If you want to unfollow accounts in bulk, open TikTok on your phone and press the ‘Profile’ tab at the bottom of the screen. If you’re browsing TikTok from your PC in your browser, click your profile picture in the upper-right corner and select ‘View profile’.
On your profile page, tap on ‘Following’ to view the list of accounts you follow. Tap the ‘Following’ button next to each of the accounts you want to unfollow. If you pressed the button by mistake, it’s easy to press the ‘Follow’ button again to remedy the situation.
Note: this is a good option to try if you’re looking to remove all your followers and start fresh. However, if you have a large list, try to abstain from unfollowing more than 200 people per day, as TikTok could consider this suspicious behavior. As an alternative, try creating a new TikTok account if you want a clean slate.
Now, let’s say you’re wondering if you can also remove TikTok followers from your account. The answer is yes. Go to your TikTok profile page, and instead of tapping on ‘Following’, tap on ‘Followers’. You’ll see a list of people that follow you. If you also follow them back, these are marked as ‘Friends’ on TikTok. If someone follows you, but you don’t follow them back, TikTok will show a ‘Follow back’ button. If you don’t want to have these accounts following you on TikTok, you can remove them.
Tap the three dots next to the account you want to remove, and select ‘Remove this follower’ from the menu at the bottom. This will remove that account from your list of Followers. Your account will disappear from the other person’s Following list. If you’re Friends on TikTok, you’ll need to switch to the Following section and unfollow the person from there as well so that you can ‘sever’ the connection between the two accounts. If you haven’t followed them back, simply removing them from Followers should do the trick.
Keep in mind that even if you can manually remove followers from your TikTok list, they can still search for you on the app and follow you again. If you really don’t want to interact with them again, unfollowing on TikTok won’t be enough. Instead, we suggest that you block these accounts on TikTok. If they are exhibiting harassing behavior, you can Report them instead.
When you unfollow someone on TikTok, you won’t see their videos appear in your Following feed app anymore. However, clips from that account may still make their way from time to time to your ‘For You’ feed. Also note that even if you unfollowed that particular account, you can still find it by using the Search function in the TikTok app. Unfollowing an account won’t delete any comments you have left on their clips in the past, unless you go back and manually remove them.
While TikTok notifies you when you get a new follower, it won’t send out notifications if you unfollowed them, so you can do so safely. Unfollowing is not the same as blocking a TikTok user. Blocking hides content from that specific account. They also won’t be able to message or leave comments on your clips on the app. Blocking automatically removes them from your Following and Followers list, as well as theirs. Overall, blocking someone will unfollow them on TikTok and will also restrict any interactions with them from that point on.
