Thanks to a new feature on TikTok called Profile Views, you can finally see who’s been lurking on your profile. The catch is that both parties must have Profile Views enabled.
Eager to see who’s been checking out your TikTok page? Let’s get started:
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Open the TikTok app and tap on the “Profile” tab on the bottom right of your screen.
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Once you’re on your profile page, tap on the icon of an eye, on the top right of your screen.
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The icon should lead you to a prompt screen that asks if you want to turn on “profile view history.”
After you turn on Profile Views, you will be presented with a list of TikTok users who viewed your profile within the last 30 days. However, only users that also have Profile Views turned on are visible on your list. That means that if you turn Profile Views off, you won’t be able to see who’s viewed your profile, but other users won’t be able to see if you’ve viewed their profiles either.
While going through my normal TikTok feed, I wondered: Is it possible to lurk on TikTok without other users knowing, while also keeping tabs on who’s viewed your profile? In the name of journalism, I put the theory to the test by lurking on my unsuspecting sister.
With Profile Views turned on, I popped over to my sister’s TikTok profile and spent a few minutes scrolling through her content. I asked her if she could see that I viewed her profile, and she said yes. However, when I turned off Profile Views, my TikTok username disappeared from my sister’s list of profile views. This means that you can only see users who actively have Profile Views turned on, making the profile view history an incomplete list.
You can have your cake and eat it, too: as long as you remember to turn off Profile Views after you’re done lurking.