With over a billion people worldwide turning to TikTok for entertainment, discovery, and creative learning, TikTok are always exploring new ways to meet the evolving needs of their community and enhance the TikTok experience.
While TikTok is known and loved as a mobile-first platform, TikTok know there are times when desktop viewing is more convenient. That’s why they are excited to share recent updates to the TikTok.com web app, delivering an easy to use and engaging viewing experience to enjoy your favorite content on desktop.
This new web-based experience will feature:
- A new modular layout
- Refreshed For You feed
- A new Explore tab
- Immersive full-screen LIVEs
- A web-exclusive Floating Player.
These updates bring popular in-app functionalities to the TikTok web app, creating a seamless, unified viewing experience that mirrors the features people love in the mobile experience.
TikTok Desktop web app updates
- Immersive Modular Design: Discover content through an optimized modular layout that features a repositioned navigation bar and reduces distractions offering a more immersive viewing experience and seamless feed exploration.
- LIVE Gaming Streaming: Go LIVE in portrait or landscape mode, delivering a full-screen horizontal view for desktop users, while mobile users can simply rotate their devices to enjoy an equally dynamic viewing experience.
- Web-Exclusive Floating Player: Available exclusively on desktop via Google Chrome, this flexible floating window keeps TikTok visible above other windows, allowing you to multitask without missing out on your favorite content.
- New Collections Feature: Organize your favorite videos into custom categories, making it easier to find and revisit saved content.
Our users interact with TikTok in many different ways, which is why we’re excited to introduce these web app updates. By enhancing our desktop capabilities, we aim to bring TikTok’s handheld magic on desktop, providing an engaging experience with greater flexibility so you can enjoy TikTok anytime, anywhere. As TikTok evolves, we remain committed to innovating for our community and ensuring the platform is accessible for all.
– Cody Puckett, Product Manager
TikTok’s vibrant community is made up of diverse and dynamic people from all around the world. These updates reflect our ongoing efforts to ensure TikTok remains a fun, special and inclusive space for everyone.
