TikTok announced its Local Feed today, and it has already popped up in my app without the need for an update. It's located to the left of the Following feed, and tapping on it brings you to a scrollable list of posts rather than the usual "swipe-to-navigate" autoplaying videos. TikTok says that the feed is "designed to help you discover and connect with content, businesses, and services wherever you are," and yeah, what I saw was mostly restaurant recommendations for New York City.
How to see the Local Feed on your TikTok account
The Local Feed showed up for me automatically when I opened my app today, but TikTok says there are a few situations where you might not see it, or if you do see it, where it might not show any content. For instance, accounts belonging to users under 18 supposedly won't see content in their Local Feed, and neither will private accounts, or accounts where post privacy is set to Friends or Only You.
It's unclear how the Local Feed uses your GPS data
Credit: Michelle EhrhardtFirst, it's difficult to know where to adjust these permissions, because they're not located in the TikTok app. Instead, they rely on your device settings. On iPhone, that's under Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services, while the exact steps will vary among Android phones. In device settings, you can see which apps have access to your location, and tap on them to restrict access. This differs from previous TikTok app, which allowed you to access your Location Services settings from within the app itself; that button no longer appears for me on the Settings and privacy > Privacy page despite it being shown there in Europe's Nearby Feed announcement. It's still mentioned on TikTok support pages, and I've reached out to TikTok for clarification as to what happened to it.
There are a few possible answers to these questions. The first is that it's possible that even after I disabled my location or took my account private, the Local Feed continued to refresh using data it had already collected before I made those changes. As for why I couldn't find the location services button in its usual location under the settings tab, that might be related to the app's new Privacy Policy, which now gives it permission to gather your "precise location" so long as you have location services turned on for your device—bypassing the need for a separate toggle within the app.
To be fair to TikTok, all of this information would have been accessible to the app even before the Local Feed made its debut, but the Local Feed does make it a bit more obvious that TikTok knows where you are. That said, your location is supposedly only tracked when the app is in active use.
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