How to Make a Group Chat on TikTok?

TikTok is one of the most popular apps worldwide with more than 700 million active users every month. This entertainment app has been rapidly growing its platform introducing new features continuously for the comfort of its users. One of the features this app provides is the messaging function and not very recently, it also introduced the availability of group chat.

Only the messaging option was not enough. Even when you wanted to share those videos with your friends, you had to send them to them one by one. This is the drawback that is solved by the group chat option on TikTok. With the help of this feature, you can now search for users on TikTok, create a group, and share the same video with many of your friends at once with a few clicks.

If you are unaware of how to create group chats on TikTok, keep reading this article to find out.

How to make a Group Chat on TikTok?

TikTok provides you with the platform to make TikTok group chats that allow you to share videos and messages with many of your friends at once and making one in TikTok is really easy. This will also help all of you know more about each other’s preferences. Not just this, sharing each other’s opinions on any sort of controversial videos or even just communicating becomes so much easier through group chats. There are two ways through which you can make a group chat on TikTok they are by using the share button or through your inbox.

By using the share button

This method is very easy to start a group chat. When you are scrolling and find a video you want to share, you can share it by creating a group chat directly. To do so:

1. Open TikTok and go to the video you want to share.
2. Click on the ‘Share‘ option.
3. Select friends you want to send the video to.
4. Once you select friends, a ‘Create Group’ will appear. Click on it.
5. Enter the message you wish to send with that video or leave it blank.
6. Hit ‘Send to Group’.
7. A group chat will be created and the TikTok you shared will be sent to it.

In this way, you can make a group chat on TikTok by using the share button.

Directly through Inbox

Through this method, you can make TikTok group chats by going to your messaging inbox and creating a group and adding members in them. To do so:

1. Open TikTok and go to your inbox.
2. Click on the ‘New chat‘ icon you see at the top.
3. Search for and select the people you wish to add in the group chat.
4. Once you are done, click on ‘Start group chat’ button.
5. The group chat will be created as shown below.

Then you can proceed to chat on it or share more videos to it. In this way, you can create group chats on TikTok directly from the Inbox.

How to Delete a Group Chat on TikTok?

Now that you have learned how to create a group chat, lets discuss how you can delete it. If you are no longer in contact with the people or the group chat is disturbing you much than expected, you can leave or delete it easily. To delete group chats on TikTok, follow the given steps:

1. Open the group chat you wish to delete.
2. Tap on the ‘Three dots‘ you see at the top right corner.
3. To delete the group chat only for yourself, click on ‘Leave group chat‘.
4. To delete the group chat for every one on the group, select the ‘End group chat’ option.
5. Click on ‘Delete‘ to confirm your action.
6. Then, tap on ‘Leave group chat‘ to delete it for yourself as well.

When you do this, the group chat will be deleted permanently for everyone. Remember that you can only do this if you are the creator of the group. If you are only a member, you can only leave the group to delete it for yourself.

Why can’t I make a group chat on TikTok?

There might be cases when you try to but are unable to make a group chat on TikTok. This problem has been seen with people worldwide that they are not able to create a group chat even when following all the steps required. This may be due to the following reasons.

• You are not using the updated version of TikTok. To access the group chat feature, you must use the latest version of TikTok as it was not available to many countries in the old version.
• There might be server error caused since this feature is not very old and sometimes cannot handle the load that comes with many people creating a group chat at once.
• One of the main reasons for this option to be unavailable is that one of the members you want to add is underage. According to TikTok, every member must be above the age of 16 to be added to a group. So, you must make sure that all the members you are trying to add to your group is above the age of 16.

Conclusion

Hence, using the methods mentioned above, you can easily make a group chat on TikTok. Even if you are unable to do so, through the share button, you can select friends you want to send videos to and type a message if you want to and send it. The messages with be sent separately but your work will become easier.

Hope that this article was helpful to you and cleared your doubts. Do feel free to leave comments.

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