How to Remove Phone Number from TikTok?

TikTok is one the fastest growing app in today’s world with almost 689 million active users. It is available for use in 40 languages and is one of the best entertainment applications. To ensure maximum security and make sure that one person only uses one account, TikTok has the policy to ask for users’ numbers while creating an account.

Using your number is necessary for the verification of your account. Even though the platform ensures maximum security regarding your personal information, you might want to remove the number just in case. In addition to this, TikTok does not allow you to use the same number if you try to make new Tiktok accounts.

In situations like this, you can easily remove phone number from TikTok account. Let’s read how you can do so easily.

How to Remove Phone Number from TikTok?

TikTok like any other social media platform asks you to enter your personal information. The reason it asks for your contact number is so that the number of accounts a person can create stays limited and the server works perfectly. But it also allows you to remove your number if you want to do. You can remove phone number from TikTok in two ways:

1. By changing your number

2. By permanently removing your number

1. By changing your number

One way to remove phone number from TikTok is by replacing it with another number. You can do so by following the given steps:

1. Log into your TikTok account and click on your ‘Profile icon‘.

2. Tap on the ‘Hamburger icon’ and click on ‘Manage Account’.

3. Click on ‘Phone number’ option.

4. Choose the option ‘Change phone’.

5. Enter your current number linked to your account and then type the verification code it sends you.

6. Enter the new number you want to put instead and click on ‘Send Code’.

7. Enter the verification code it sends you.

In this way, you can change your number on TikTok.

2. By permanently removing your number

To do this, first make sure that have an email address linked to your account. Then, you can permanently remove phone number from Tiktok by using the following steps:

1. Log into your account and tap the ‘Profile’ icon.

2. Click on the ‘Hamburger icon’ and go to ‘Manage Account’.

3. Tap on ‘Phone number’.

4. Choose the option that says ‘Unlink phone’.

5. Click on ‘Continue to unlink’.

6. Enter the verification code TikTok sends you.

Doing this, your number gets unlinked from your account i.e. permanently removed.

How to Remove Phone Number you No Longer have Access to?

Suppose you moved countries, or lost your previous number and want to unlink/remove it from your account. You cannot directly unlink it because TikTok will ask you for a verification. But, you can report that problem and ask TikTok to help remove it for you. You can remove a number you no longer have access to by:

1. Open your TikTok account and go to ‘Profile‘.

2. Click on ‘Report a Problem‘.

3. Tap on ‘Account and profile‘.

4. Click on ‘Changing the phone number or Email associated with an account‘.

5. A page appears. Click on ‘No‘.

6. Tap on the option ‘Need more help?‘.

7. Type your problem clearly and click on ‘Report‘.

Once you do this, TikTok may then remove your previously registered number within some days. Connect your email address to your account before reporting the problem.

Can someone see my Phone Number on TikTok?

The answer is no. TikTok makes sure that your important personal information like your phone number does not get displayed to anyone but you. Though your TikTok account and videos are able to be seen by everyone until you have set your account to private, unlike it your number remains hidden all the time.

Conclusion

Thus, using the methods presented above, you can easily remove phone number from TikTok. But, you must make sure that your email is linked with your account before removing the number because after removing your number when you forget your password, you can recover it through your mail. And even when someone else tries to log into your account, TikTok will notify you by sending emails.

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