Once you get a TikTok account, you can connect to this community and watch entertaining content in a short video format from the player integrated into your mobile application.
Its algorithms present the content taking into account your preferences when creating, watching or sharing videos, which have been detected by its artificial intelligence algorithms, which also take into account the people you follow and the way you interact with them. they.
But TikTok videos don’t advance automatically, rather they loop indefinitely so they can be watched multiple times in a row unless you do a swipe gesture on the screen.
However, there are several reasons to change this way of playing TikTok videos from the phone. The most obvious is having your hand or fingers busy while consuming TikTok, but there may be other understandable reasons depending on the circumstances at the time.
Unfortunately there is no trick to turn off the autoplay feature on TikTok videos. Alternatives to TikTok’s default feature are based on the accessibility options of the device TikTok is running on. For example, on iPhone use a voice command to browse recommended TikTok videos. Follow these steps to get it.
How to make TikTok videos on iPhone advance with a voice command
Go to Settings > Accessibility.
Scroll down the screen to the Physical and motor section and tap on Voice control. Next, activate the Voice control option. On this same screen, tap on Customize commands > Custom.
Now, click on Create new command. On the New Order screen, go to the PHRASE section, and type a voice command, for example, “go ahead” or “go on”. Then, tap Action > Perform custom gesture and draw the gesture to advance videos on TikTok (make sure it turns blue). Tap Save.
Return to the New Order screen, tap on App and from the list of apps that appears, select TikTok. Go back to the previous screen and click Save.
From now on, you will be able to advance TikTok videos with the voice command you have set on your iPhone.