TikTok Comments: How to Pin, Delete, Filter and Find Them

TikTok comments are managed from two places: press and hold a comment to pin, delete or report it, or go to Settings and privacy, then Privacy, then Comments to choose who can comment and switch on filters. Filters hide comments until you approve them, which is different from deleting them. Your own comment history sits in your Activity center.

This hub covers every comment task, from pinning the best comment to finding what someone else wrote. Each section links to a full guide. If you got here looking for something other than comments, start at how to search on TikTok.

How Do You Pin a Comment on TikTok?

To pin a comment, open one of your own videos, press and hold the comment and tap Pin comment; it moves to the top of the comment section. You can pin only on your own videos, one comment at a time. Pinning on LIVE works differently and is covered, with every edge case, in how to pin a comment on TikTok.

How Do You Delete Comments on TikTok?

To delete a comment, press and hold it and tap Delete; you can delete any comment on your own videos and your own comments anywhere. To clear several at once, press and hold a comment, choose the option to manage multiple comments, select them and tap Delete. Deleting your own past comments works from your comment history, where you press and hold a comment and tap Delete (TikTok Help Center). The full method is in how to delete comments on TikTok.

How Do You Choose Who Can Comment on TikTok?

You choose who can comment in Settings and privacy, then Privacy, then Comments, and you can also change it for a single video from that video’s Privacy settings. TikTok documents both routes (TikTok Help Center). The options let you allow everyone, limit comments to people you follow back, or turn comments off.

How Do TikTok Comment Filters Work?

TikTok has 3 comment filters, and all of them hide comments rather than delete them; hidden comments wait for you to approve or delete them. The table compares them (TikTok Help Center).

Filter	What it hides	Best for
Filter all comments	Every comment, until you approve it	Videos that attract heavy abuse
Filter unwanted comments	Comments TikTok judges to be spam or offensive	A general safety net
Filter keywords in comments	Comments containing words you add	Recurring insults, spam phrases, spoilers

To review what was caught, go to the same Comments menu, open the filtered comments and tap Approve or Delete under each one. Limiting and hiding comments, including during a LIVE, is covered in how to limit, filter and hide comments on TikTok.

How Do You Comment With a Picture, GIF or Sticker?

In many regions, the TikTok comment box has buttons for a photo, a GIF or a sticker next to the text field, depending on whether the creator allows them. You can also reply to a comment with a video. Every option is shown step by step in how to comment pictures, GIFs and stickers on TikTok.

How Do You See Your Own Comment History?

Your own comments are listed under Settings and privacy, then Activity center, then Comment history. From there you can open any comment, or press and hold it to delete it (TikTok Help Center).

Why Can’t You See Comments on TikTok?

Comments go missing when the creator has filtered or turned off comments, TikTok has folded comments it judges low quality, or the app needs an update. Folded comments are still there, collapsed behind a link at the end of the section. Each cause and its fix is in why can’t I see comments on TikTok.

How Do You Find Someone’s Comments on TikTok?

TikTok has no search for comments, so finding what a specific person wrote means opening the videos they’re likely to have commented on and scrolling. There are a few faster routes, explained in how to find someone’s comments on TikTok.

TikTok Comment Tasks at a Glance

These are the comment tasks people search for most, and where each one lives in the app. The paths below come from TikTok’s comment help page.

Task	Where
Pin, delete or report a comment	Press and hold the comment
Choose who can comment	Settings and privacy, Privacy, Comments
Turn on comment filters	Settings and privacy, Privacy, Comments, Comment filters
Approve or delete filtered comments	Same menu, filtered comments
See your own comments	Settings and privacy, Activity center, Comment history
Change comments for one video	The video’s Privacy settings

How to Export TikTok Comments With apidojo

The app shows comments one scroll at a time; apidojo’s TikTok Comments Scraper on Apify exports every comment on a public video, with its text, time, likes, reply count, language and the commenter’s profile, as JSON, CSV or Excel. Set includeReplies to collect threads too (Apify).

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.tiktok.com/@username/video/7353781970163272993"],
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxItems": 2000
}

It costs $0.30 per 1,000 comments, and each video should have at least 10 comments. The developer guide is how to scrape TikTok comments and replies, and analysing what commenters say is covered in how to analyse TikTok comment sentiment.