TikTok profile views: who can see them, and the 2026 rules

You can see who viewed your TikTok profile only through a setting called Profile view history, which shows visits from the past 30 days, only from people who have the setting on too, and only if you are 16 or older with fewer than 5,000 followers. A second setting, Post view history, does the same for your videos, covering posts from the last 7 days.

Outside those two settings and your own Stories, nobody can see who viewed a TikTok. Your analytics count TikTok profile views and video views as numbers, with no names attached. No app or website can list your viewers, and most of them ask for your password.

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Most people who type this want to know two things: who has been looking, and whether others can see them looking. TikTok's own search suggestions for two phrases show it. Of the 20 suggestions, 5 ask how to turn the feature off or hide, and 5 ask who looked. All three suggestions in other languages (Burmese, Amharic and Sinhala) are about switching it off. So this page covers both sides.

How do you see who viewed your TikTok profile?

Profile view history starts switched off. To turn it on in the phone app:

1. Tap Profile at the bottom right.
2. Tap the menu (three lines) at the top right, then Settings and privacy.
3. Tap Privacy, then Profile views.
4. Turn on Profile view history.

To see the list, go back to your profile and tap the Profile views button at the top. Reader's Digest and SociallyIn describe its icon as footprints; UpNumbers calls it an eye. TikTok's Help Center lists a second route: Inbox → Activities, then the profile-view notification or Profile views. Both screens also have a settings button that switches the feature on or off.

The list shows accounts that visited your profile in the last 30 days. Older visits drop off. TikTok does not send a notification for each visit, so you have to open the list to check.

The rules that decide who shows up

Both people must have it on. TikTok's Help Center says you only see views from accounts that have the setting on, and that if you visit another account that has it on, they see your visit. Turning it off means you won't see who viewed your profile and others won't see that you viewed theirs. There is no one-way version.

You must be 16 or older. TikTok's Help Center states this, as did TechCrunch's 2022 launch report and Descript's July 2026 guide.

You must have fewer than 5,000 followers. The Help Center makes this a condition of access, so once you pass 5,000 the setting goes from your account. TikTok has not published whether an account over 5,000 still shows up in smaller accounts' lists when it visits them.

It is meant to be available everywhere. TikTok told TechCrunch in April 2022 that the feature was live worldwide after a regional start. No current guide mentions a country limit, and SociallyIn notes you need an up-to-date app. If the setting is missing, update the app first.

TokConnect cannot show who viewed you. It shows public stats for any account: Profile Viewer, or look up any public account in the research agent.

How do you see who viewed your TikTok videos?

Post view history is the video version, and it has its own switch. In the same menu, go to Settings and privacy → Privacy → Post views and turn it on. Then open one of your videos from your profile and tap the view count in the bottom left corner. You get a list of accounts that watched it.

The eligibility rules match profile views: 16 or older, fewer than 5,000 followers, per TikTok's post view history page. The list is short by design. TikTok says it shows three groups:

• Followers who opted in. People who follow you, have Post view history on and watched your post.
• Non-followers who reacted. People who don't follow you but liked or commented on the post, whatever their own setting.
• Recent posts only. Views of posts you published in the last 7 days. That matches TechCrunch's 2022 report on the first test; some 2025 and 2026 guides describe it as views from the past 7 days instead. Either way, you cannot look up the viewers of last month's video.

TikTok also keeps Story viewers separate: your Story view list is not affected by this setting.

No source describes a full list of everyone who watched. Expect it to be much shorter than the view count. The missing viewers are people outside the groups above, people with the setting off, and anyone who watched outside the window.

TikTok profile views vs post views vs analytics

Three different things get called "views" in the app. Only two of them name anyone.

TikTok Help Center pages on profile view history, post view history and analytics ; the profile and post view pages were read in full on 5 October 2026. Analytics windows from Descript, 29 July 2026 and Multilogin, 9 July 2026. What TikTok's pages say.

Why can't you see who viewed your TikTok?

If your list is empty or the setting is missing, one of these is usually the reason:

• You have 5,000 followers or more. The setting disappears from the menu.
• Your account says you are under 16. The setting does not appear.
• The visitor has it off. The setting starts switched off, so anyone who never turned it on leaves no trace.
• The visit is too old. Profile visits leave after 30 days, video views after 7.
• Your app is out of date. Update it and check the Privacy menu again.

Stories are the one place where you always get names. Open your Story while it is live and swipe up to see who watched. It works the other way too: TikTok's Help Center says people can see you viewed their Story even if your account is private or your Profile view history is off. The Stories guide covers how that list works and when it disappears.

Everything else, including likes, comments, shares and new followers, shows you who engaged, not who watched. Someone can watch every video you post and never appear anywhere.

What people search about profile views

TikTok's own search data shows the hiding side is not a niche worry. In the 7 days to 5 October 2026, "profiles views off" was searched 186,055 times worldwide, and TikTok had matched no videos to it. "Viewing profiles" had 299,770 searches and "profile view settings" 73,221.

TikTok's own search counts, worldwide · week to 5 Oct

A search with demand and no videos is what TikTok calls a content gap. If you make videos about TikTok settings, a short, accurate answer to "how do I turn profile views off" has an audience waiting. Our Creator Search Insights guide explains how to find gaps like this in your own topic.

"Who viewed my TikTok" apps and websites

Search app stores or Google for "who viewed my TikTok" and you get tools promising a full visitor list, often including people who have the setting off. They cannot deliver it. TikTok shows visitor lists only inside its own app, and only to the account owner, as its help page and TechCrunch's launch report describe it. An outside tool has nothing real to show you.

You do not need an "anonymous viewer" site either. Turn your own Profile view history off and your visits are not recorded.

How do you turn off profile views and post views?

If you want to look around without leaving a trace, turn both settings off. They are separate switches, so turning one off does not turn off the other.

1. Go to Profile → menu → Settings and privacy → Privacy.
2. Tap Profile views and turn off Profile view history.
3. Go back, tap Post views and turn off Post view history.

With both off, your visits and views no longer appear in other people's lists, and you lose your own lists too. That is the trade. Two exceptions, both from TikTok's Help Center: a like or comment you leave on someone's post still shows them you viewed it, and watching someone's Story still puts you on their Story viewer list. There is no way to see others while hiding yourself, and no way to hide from one person while staying visible to the rest.

A visit you made while the setting was on may already be in someone's list. TikTok has not published whether switching off removes visits that were already recorded, so assume they stay until the 30 days run out.

If you have 5,000 followers or more, the settings are not in your menu at all. To control who sees you, use the other privacy tools: a private account limits your videos to followers you approve, and blocking stops one person seeing your profile. The guide to using TikTok walks through the privacy menu.

What "views" in your analytics mean

The numbers in TikTok Studio are counts, not lists. Profile views is how many times your profile was opened in the period you pick. Post views (or video views) is how many times your videos were watched. Both are totals, and neither tells you who. One person opening your profile three times can show up as three.

To find them, open your profile menu, tap TikTok Studio, then Analytics, and look at the Overview tab. You can choose 7, 28 or 60 days. The analytics guide explains every number on that screen and what a normal figure looks like, and the TikTok Studio guide shows where each tool lives.

For growing an account, the totals beat a name list. Many profile views but few new follows means people liked the video but not your profile. The followers guide covers what to fix.

How we got these numbers

The rules come from TikTok's Help Center pages on profile view history, post view history and watching Stories, read in full on 5 October 2026. TikTok moved the profile view article to a new address in 2026; the old one now opens a general privacy page.

The search numbers come from TokConnect, which reads TikTok's own data. On 5 October 2026 we ran two Creator Search Insights searches, "tiktok profile views" and "profile view", which returned 30 records. "Searches" is the Search popularity figure TikTok shows on a topic page: searches worldwide over the last 7 days. 27 of the 30 records were TikTok's topic groups, such as "TikTok profile view settings", which pool many related searches into one figure in the millions; we left all of them out and kept the 3 typed searches. The autocomplete suggestions were pulled on 27 September 2026. Snapshots: search topics and TikTok's rules, autocomplete.