How to reset your TikTok algorithm

TikTok has an official button for this. It is called Refresh your For You feed. Open Settings and privacy, tap Content preferences, then tap Refresh your For You feed (TikTok Help). Your feed clears and TikTok starts recommending videos as if you were a new user.

The refresh does not touch your follows, your likes or your saved videos. Only the recommendations reset. You can use it more than once (TikTok Help, Refresh your For You feed).

That is the whole answer for viewers. Below are the exact steps, what the refresh keeps, and the smaller controls that steer the feed without a reset. There is also a short honest section for creators who hope a reset will fix their views.

The official way: Refresh your For You feed

TikTok added this feature in March 2023 (TikTok Newsroom). Before that, the only option was a new account. Here are the steps.

1. Open TikTok and tap Profile in the bottom right.
2. Tap the menu in the top right, then Settings and privacy.
3. Tap Content preferences.
4. Tap Refresh your For You feed.
5. Read the note about what happens, then confirm.

Go back to the For You feed. It now shows a mix of popular videos, the way it does for a brand-new account. From here it learns from you again.

What the refresh keeps and what it clears

Item	After a refresh
Recommendations in the For You feed	Cleared and restarted
Accounts you follow	Kept
Videos you liked	Kept
Saved videos	Kept
Your own videos and profile	Kept
Refreshing again later	Allowed, you can do it more than once

Source for all of the above: TikTok Help, Refresh your For You feed, and the TikTok Newsroom post that announced it.

There is no undo button. If you refresh by mistake, go back to watching what you like and the feed rebuilds from there.

One thing to know. The feed does not stay blank. It starts learning from the first video you watch after the refresh. So the useful part is not the reset itself. It is what you do in the hour after.

Other controls that retrain the feed without a full reset

A full refresh is a blunt tool. If most of your feed is fine and one kind of video keeps showing up, use these instead.

Not interested. Press and hold on a video and tap Not interested. This is the fastest single signal. The same menu offers Hide videos from this user and Hide videos with this sound, which cut a whole account or a whole sound in one go.

Filter video keywords. In Settings and privacy, under Content preferences, you can add words. Videos whose captions or hashtags use those words stop appearing in your feed.

Clear watch history. In Settings and privacy, look for Activity center or Watch history. Clearing it removes the record of what you watched. You can clear search history from the same area.

Watch and like what you want more of. The feed learns fastest from positive signals. Finish a video, like it, and it will show you more like it.

Control	Where	Best for
Refresh your For You feed	Settings and privacy, Content preferences	A feed that has gone completely wrong
Not interested	Press and hold a video	One video type you are tired of
Hide videos from this user	Press and hold a video	One account
Hide videos with this sound	Press and hold a video	One sound that is everywhere
Filter video keywords	Settings and privacy, Content preferences	A topic you never want to see
Clear watch history	Settings and privacy, Activity center or Watch history	Removing the record of a session

How to train the new feed fast

The TikTok help page on recommendations says the feed learns from watch time, finishing, liking, sharing, following, and skipping. Skipping fast is a strong negative signal. Device and account settings matter less.

So, in the first hour after a refresh, be deliberate. Search is the fastest way in. Type the topic you want, open the results, and watch three or four videos to the end. The feed now has a clear signal about what you came for.

• Search for the topics you want and watch a few videos to the end.
• Like the ones you actually want more of.
• Follow two or three accounts in that topic.
• Skip fast on anything you do not want. Do not watch it “to see”.
• Tap Not interested on anything that slips through.

Do this for a few sessions and the feed settles. It will never be perfect, because it also keeps testing new things on you. That is by design.

Tip: the biggest mistake after a refresh is hate-watching. If you watch a video you dislike all the way through, the feed reads that as interest. Skip it in the first second instead.

For creators: what you cannot reset

A lot of people search for “reset TikTok algorithm” because their videos stopped getting views. They hope a reset will make TikTok see their account fresh. It will not, and here is why.

Refreshing your For You feed changes what you see as a viewer. It says nothing to TikTok about your account as a creator. The two are separate.

On the creator side, there is nothing to reset. The TikTok help page on recommendations says each video is tested on a small group and judged on how that group reacts. A run of poor videos does not “damage” the account. The next video takes the same test as any other.

That is good news. It means the fix is inside the next video, not in a setting. Our guide on how to go viral on TikTok explains the test and what the first 3 seconds have to do. If views are the problem, start with how to get more views on TikTok.

Deleting your videos, making a new account, or “going dark” for a week do nothing that the next good video does not do better.

Watch out: if a video shows 0 views, it is probably under review or the account is private. A refresh of your own feed will not change that.

Where GetLikes fits

We sell TikTok followers, 100 for $3.95, and TikTok views, 1,000 for $4.95. Neither has anything to do with your feed as a viewer, and a fresh feed says nothing about your account as a creator.

What bought followers and views do: make a profile look established when strangers arrive. What they do not do: change how the For You feed tests your videos. That test runs on watch time and interaction from TikTok’s own group. If your videos are not getting views, fix the video first. If the profile looks empty once people arrive, that is the part we can help with. Orders need only a public username, never a password.

A routine for keeping the feed useful

• Skip fast on anything you do not want. Do not watch it to be polite.
• Tap Not interested once a day on the worst offender.
• Add a keyword filter for any topic you are done with.
• Like and finish the videos you want more of.
• If the feed is more than half wrong, refresh it and spend one deliberate hour training it.

The refresh is free, keeps your follows, and can be repeated. The trick is to treat the hour after it like the first hour of a new account, because to the feed, that is what it is. The same idea on Instagram is in our guide on how to reset the Instagram algorithm.