How you can keep away from flashing lights and photosensitive movies on TikTok

Here’s how to make your For You Page more secure if you are sensitive to blinking lights.

While TikTok’s curated For You Page offers an endless supply of content, users can inadvertently stumble upon videos with intense graphics. Flashing lights can be harmful to people with certain health conditions, such as migraines and sensory processing disorders, and can trigger a seizure in epileptic viewers.

An estimated 65 million people in the world have epilepsy, and according to the Epilepsy Foundation, one in 26 Americans will develop epilepsy at some point in their life.

“In people with photosensitive epilepsy, exposure to flashing lights of certain intensities or certain visual patterns can trigger seizures,” Laura Thrall, president of the Epilepsy Foundation, said in a statement to TikTok. “Although the population of people with photosensitive epilepsy is small, the effects can be very serious.”

To make its platform more accessible to affected users, TikTok added features in late 2020 to filter out photosensitive videos. On the advice of epilepsy advocates, TikTok is now warning users before they see any photosensitive content that can trigger seizures, and now gives them the option to skip all photosensitive videos in the future.

How to turn off photosensitive content on TikTok.

If you didn’t tap “Skip All” the first time you received a photosensitive content alert, or if you want to scroll through your For You page without stopping, you can toggle the filter manually. How to turn off photosensitive content on TikTok.

1. Go to your profile tab

First go to your profile tab. You can access it by tapping the “I” icon on the far right of the menu bar at the bottom of the screen.

How to avoid flashing lights and photosensitive videos on TikTok

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2. Navigate to the Settings and privacy page

Then tap on the three dots in the upper right corner of the screen to go to the “Settings and privacy” menu. Scroll down to find “Accessibility” under “Content and Activities”.

How to avoid flashing lights and photosensitive videos on TikTok

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Tapping Accessibility will take you to a menu where you can turn on animated thumbnails, filter photosensitive videos, and turn on subtitles. To avoid flashing lights on your For You page, toggle the switch to the right of “Remove Photosensitive Videos” from off to on.

The switch should be green after you tap on it.

How to avoid flashing lights and photosensitive videos on TikTok

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How to avoid flashing lights and photosensitive videos on TikTok

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